{"id":310264,"date":"2019-03-09T07:11:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T07:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310264"},"modified":"2019-03-09T07:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T07:11:49","slug":"nirav-modi-tracked-down-in-london-now-involved-in-new-diamond-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nirav-modi-tracked-down-in-london-now-involved-in-new-diamond-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirav Modi tracked down in London, now involved in new diamond business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299621 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nirav-modi-1-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirav-modi-1-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirav-modi-1-460x420.jpg 460w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirav-modi-1.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, accused in the 13,000 crore Punjab National fraud case has been tracked down in London by a reporter of the British newspaper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The UK Telegraph reported that the wanted billionaire has been living openly in a swanky 8-million-pound apartment in London&#8217;s West End.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports, Modi has started a new diamond business in Soho.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a video posted by the newspaper, Modi can be seen sporting a handlebar moustache. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 48-year-old walked briskly in an apparent effort to lose the reporter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When a journalist questioned him on various issues including whether he had applied for political asylum, Modi said, &#8220;Sorry, no comment.&#8221; Then he walked across the road in his black Ostrich hide jacket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The newspaper also learnt from government sources that Nirav Modi had been given a national insurance number by the Department for Work and Pensions &#8211; needed to legally work in the UK and has been operating bank accounts online.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, accused in the 13,000 crore Punjab National fraud case has been tracked down in London by a reporter of the British newspaper.\u00a0 The UK Telegraph reported that the wanted billionaire has been living openly in a swanky 8-million-pound apartment in London&#8217;s West End. According to reports, Modi has started a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3410,541,11061],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310265,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310264\/revisions\/310265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}