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Mallya, Nirav Modi & Mehul Choksi all coming back to face law: FM

The government is persuing extradition of Mallya and Modi from the UK while Choksi is believed to be in Antigua.

Published on: Mar 18, 2021 07:51 PM IST
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that fugitive businessmen Vijaya Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi are "coming back" to India" to face the law.

Union minister for finance and corporate affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman. (File photo)
Union minister for finance and corporate affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman. (File photo)

The government is persuing extradition of Mallya and Modi from the UK while Choksi is believed to be in Antigua.

Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi are all coming back to face law of the land, Sitharaman said in the Rajya Sabha while replying to a debate on the insurance amendment bill.

Mallya, an accused in bank loan default case of over 9,000 crore involving his defunct Kingfisher Airlines, is in the UK since March 2016.

Nirav Modi and his maternal uncle Choksi fled the country allegedly after committing fraud in the public sector lender Punjab National Bank. Modi is accused of committing a fraud of $2 billion (around 14,500 crore) in the PNB.

 
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