Red corner notice against Nirav, kin

New Delhi: The Interpol has issued a Red Corner Notice against absconding diamantaire Nirav Modi, his brother Nishal Modi and his employee Subhash Parab on the request of the CBI, probing over USD 2 billion PNB scam, officials said Monday.
The notice was issued June 29 but has been made public Monday by the International police cooperation agency, the sources said, adding that it will make unhindered movement of Modi across border difficult and might lead to his arrest.
The Interpol has issued the Red Corner Notice (RCN) on the basis of a charge sheet filed by the CBI in a special court in Mumbai and the arrest warrant issued by the judge JC Jagdale there.
In its Red Corner Notice issued against a fugitive, the Interpol asks its 192 member countries to arrest or detain the person if spotted in their countries after which extradition or deportation proceedings can begin.
Modi along with his wife Ami Modi, a US citizen, brother Nishal Modi, a Belgian citizen, and uncle Mehul Choksi, all accused in the CBI FIRs in the case, had left the country in the first week of January, weeks before country’s biggest banking scam surfaced.
Nishal and Parab have also been charge-sheeted by the CBI along with Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi for alleged corruption and cheating. Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi have refused to return India to join probe citing business and health reasons among others, they said.
In the RCN, Interpol has given details of all the five passports of Modi, issued between May 2008 and May 2017, including that these passports have been cancelled by the government yet he has managed to travel on the basis of revoked and cancelled passports, they said.
CBI and ED both recently filed charge-sheets against both Nirav Modi and Choksi, and 22 others.
The CBI, in its charge-sheet, alleged that Nirav, through his companies, siphoned off funds to the tune of Rs 6,498.20 crore using fraudulent LoUs issued from PNB’s Brady House branch in Mumbai. Choksi swindled Rs 7080.86 crore, making it possibly the biggest banking scam in the country.