PNB scam: Interpol notice against Nirav Modi
Nirav Modi
Nirav Modi, who had left the country on January 1, has been living in an apartment in New York's Manhattan, media reports said today.
The Interpol today issued a diffusion notice against billionaire jewellery designer Nirav Modi, in the centre of a Rs 11,400 scam involving the Punjab National Bank (PNB).
The notice has also been issued Nirav Modi's wifeAmi Modi, his brother Nishal Modi and business partner Mehul Choksi. A diffusion notice is a request for cooperation or alert mechanism. It is used to request the arrest or location of an individual or additional information in relation to a police investigation.
The Enforcement Directorate today issued summons to Nirav Modi and his business partner Mehul Choksi in the PNB money laundering case, PTI quoted officials as saying.
Both Modi and Choksi were summoned under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and asked to depose within a week's time, officials said. The notices were handed over to the directors of the firms of the two businessmen as they were not in the country.
The CBI today registered an FIR against Mehul Choksi's Gitanjali Group of companies on a February 13 complaint of Punjab National Bank.
Nirav Modi, who had left the country on January 1, has been living in anapartment in New York's Manhattan, media reports said today.
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Meanwhile, after almost 24 hours, raids continued at Nirav Modi's boutique in the Kala Ghoda area of South Mumbai today.
On Thursday, the Enforcement Directorate had conducted searches in 17 premises across the country including Geetanjali Gems and seized stock of gold, diamond and precious stones worth Rs 5,100 crore.
Eight employees of the Punjab National Bank have been suspended taking the number of suspended employees to 18.
Nirav Modi left the country much before the Central Bureau of Investigation received a complaint from Punjab National Bank on January 29 about a Rs 280-crore fraud.
His brother Nishal, a Belgian citizen, also left the country on January 1, while wife Ami, a US citizen, and Mehul Choksi, the Indian promoter of Gitanjali jewellery chain, departed on January 6.
The Enforcement Direcotorate has written to the Ministry of External Affairs asking that the passports of Nirav Modi, his wife Ami Modi, and Mehul Choksi, the Indian promoter of Gitanjali Jewels, be revoked.
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday registered a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case against the billionaire jeweller and others for allegedly cheating the Punjab National Bank (PNB) of Rs 280 crores.
The case was registered on the basis of a CBI First Information Report (FIR).
The CBI has issued a look out circular against all the four after registering the first FIR against them.
Nirav Modi was booked by the CBI, along with wife, brother and Choksi on January 31, for allegedly cheating the state-run PNB to the tune of Rs 280 crore.
The Punjab National Bank said on Tuesday that it had detected a Rs 11,400 crore (USD 1.7 billion) scam in which the billionaire jeweller allegedly acquired fraudulent letters of undertaking from one of its branches for overseas credit from other Indian lenders.
The scam started in 2011 and was detected in the third week of January this year.
(With inputs from agencies)