{"id":323856,"date":"2020-06-10T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323856"},"modified":"2020-06-10T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:06:18","slug":"jewels-worth-rs-1350-crore-belonging-to-nirav-modi-mehul-choksi-brought-back-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jewels-worth-rs-1350-crore-belonging-to-nirav-modi-mehul-choksi-brought-back-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewels worth Rs 1,350 crore belonging to Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi brought back to India"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-310701 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nirav-modi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/nirav-modi.jpg 614w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/nirav-modi-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday brought back over 2,300 kg of polished diamonds and pearls worth Rs 1,350 crore, belonging to PNB-scam accused Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi from Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">These valuables were brought as part of 108 consignments belonging to firms controlled by Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe valuables include polished diamonds, pearls, pearl and silver jewellery, and is valued around Rs 1,350 crore and weighs approximately 2,340 kg,\u201d ED said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ED claims to have earlier brought back\u00a033 valuable consignments\u00a0from Dubai and Hong Kong in the case.\u00a0These were\u00a0valued at around Rs 137 crore.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both the businessmen are being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)\u00a0in connection with over USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday brought back over 2,300 kg of polished diamonds and pearls worth Rs 1,350 crore, belonging to PNB-scam accused Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi from Hong Kong. These valuables were brought as part of 108 consignments belonging to firms controlled by Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi. \u201cThe valuables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2423,3844,541],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323856"}],"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=323856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323857,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323856\/revisions\/323857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}