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Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi , who is fighting extradition to India, was on Thursday further remanded in custody until August 6 after he appeared at a regular remand hearing before a UK court on charges over the nearly $2 billion Punjab National Bank fraud and money laundering case. The 49-year-old jeweller, who has been lodged at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London since his arrest in March last year, appeared via videolink before Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London for a regular 28-day "call-over" hearing until the second leg of his extradition trial begins in September. "Nice to see you looking well," said Judge Arbuthnot, as she informed Modi of his next videolink call-over hearing on August 6. In May, District Judge Samuel Goozee presided over the first part of the extradition trial, held in a partial remote setting due to the coronavirus lockdown restrictions, with the second part scheduled for a five...

Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi was on Wednesday arrested by the police two days after a London court issued an arrest warrant against him. He will be produced before the court today, according to TV reports. Nirav Modi is the main accused in the $2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case. Earlier, CBI sources had told news agency PTI an extradition request has been sent to the United Kingdom through the External Affairs ministry. Nirav Modi has fled after allegedly siphoning off about Rs 13,0000 crore from Punjab National Bank using Letters of Undertaking in collusion with his uncle Mehul Choski. The 48-year old Nirav Modi was recently spotted in a tony neighbourhood of London wearing a 10,000 Pound Ostrich hide jacket by the London-based newspaper The Telegraph. On Tuesday also, several Indian channels spotted him in the area. After fleeing from the country in the first week of January last year, he was seen in a Press Information Bureau group photograph of CEOs...