Mumbai court issues non-bailable warrants against Nirav, Choksi


Mumbai, Mar 3 (IANS): A PMLA court here on Saturday issued non-bailable warrants (NBWs) against absconder diamantaires Nirav Modi and his uncle and business partner Mehul Choksi in the Rs 12,600-crore (almost $2 billion) Punjab National Bank fraud.

The NBWs, issued by the Prevention of Money Laundering Act court Judge M.S. Azmi, will facilitate the extradition of Modi and Choksi once their whereabouts are traced, said Special Public Prosecutor Hiten Venegaonkar.

The development comes after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on February 27 moved the PMLA court for issuing the NBWs after the duo failed to honour three summonses and appear before the agency for questioning on February 15, 17, and 23.

Simultaneously, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had sent a communication to Nirav Modi, asking him to return to India for the ongoing probe, but the latter spurned the agency by repling in the negative on the ground that he was tied up in his businesses abroad.

The Indian government has already suspended Modi's and Choksi's passports, among others, and asked Interpol to issue lookout notices for them as their current whereabouts are a matter of speculation.

Nirav Modi Group's flagship company Firestar Diamonds, with branches in several countries, has already filed for bankruptcy in a New York court, which has granted an interim stay to prohibit creditors from collecting debts.

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Sun, Mar 04 2018

    All those who were involved in this mega bank scam to be arrested and jailed at the earliest.

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  • Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    Sun, Mar 04 2018

    The delivery person of the non-bailable warrants will have a good time.

    He will be busy for the next two years hunting for the persons - like the ship that was looking for the missing Malaysian flight 370 in the Indian Ocean.

    There is no way the delivery person is going to locate the fraudsters.

    India does not believe in preventing the fraudsters from escaping abroad. But, once the horse has bolted, the matter is taken to the overburdened judicial system.

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  • geoffrey, hat hill

    Sun, Mar 04 2018

    What a joke! Such non bailable warrant is there on Mallya since April 2017 and he's having a ball in UK cocking a snook at our government, the same government which made his and other 3 crooks' passage to safe havens possible and now this drama! . Ironically even after such mega blunders people still continue to repose their faith in the Chowkidar whose integrity is questionable because they are left with no much of a choice?

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  • AMAR NATHAL, MANGALORE

    Sun, Mar 04 2018

    Just a big, bombastic and empty word.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sun, Mar 04 2018

    I wonder why Modi is not saying 'I will bring them back within 100 days' ...

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  • Mona, Mangalore

    Sat, Mar 03 2018

    But where is Nirav and Choksi ? who are more dangerous then Dawood or any other.

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