"Nirav Modi Threatened to Kill Company Director", Claims CBI Charge Sheet

New Delhi, December 21, 2019:

Accusing Nirav Modi of threatening to kill one of the dummy directors of his company, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday filed a charge sheet in the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case.

The CBI told the special court in Maharashtra that Nirav Modi had threatened to kill one of the directors, Ashish Mohanbhai Lad in case he ever expressed a desire to return to India from Cairo.

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According to the CBI, Lad had fled from Dubai to Cairo fearing arrest and later on, expressing a desire to return to India, Nehal Modi on behalf of Nirav Modi contacted him and threatened him.

The CBI in its charge sheet said, “Investigation revealed that subsequent to the threatening call by Nirav Modi to Ashish Mohanbhai Lad... accused Nehal Modi offered Rs 20 lakh to Lad for visiting Europe to give a favourable statement before the lawyer and a judge in a European court to help Nirav Modi which was refused by Lad.”

Nirav Modi is currently lodged at Wandsworth prison in south-west London and is wanted for his alleged role in the Rs 13,570 crore loss caused to the bank along with his uncle, Mehul Choksi.

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He was arrested in March this year by Scotland Yard in connection with the case and did not returned to India despite repeated summons from CBI and courts.

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