LONDON: A UK court hearing the extradition case of fugitive diamond service provider Nirav Modi on Thursday mounted his next remand hearing for June 27 and directed the Indian government to substantiate inside 14 days which prison he's to be held in if he were to be extradited to India.
Nirav Modi, sought after in India to stand fees of fraud and money laundering amounting to nearly $2-billion within the Punjab National Bank (PNB) case, was once produced within the dock at Westminster Magistrates Court before Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot for his first case management hearing.
The 48-year-old, dressed in a blue shirt and black trousers, took notes as the judge mounted his next remand hearing via videolink for June 27 and set a 14-day closing date for the Indian authorities to substantiate the prison plans in India.
"There is not any reason it will have to not be replied inside 14 days,” Judge Arbuthnot said, adding that Arthur Road Jail would be the “evident candidate”.
Arbuthnot, who ordered the extradition of liquor magnate Vijay Mallya in December 2018, had sought a video of the exact mobile in which the previous Kingfisher Airlines boss was once to be held. She subsequently indicated that if Modi was once to be held inside the similar premises, the court would possibly not have any objections.
Nirav Modi's barrister, Clare Montgomery, agreed that until it was once the similar mobile, she would be in search of a court-appointed independent prison visit to ensure that any holding mobile in India met with human rights pointers.
No additional main points or timelines were set for the extradition trial on the first case management hearing on Thursday as Montgomery instructed the court that the defence team was once yet to obtain the outlet place remark at the case to start construction on its arguments.
The judge has given the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), representing the Indian government, six weeks' time to offer a gap place remark laying out the prima facie case in opposition to Nirav Modi, with the following case management hearing set for July 29 – when a timeline for extradition trial is expected to be laid out.
"I have had a short lived have a look at the pagination and it is much better than before… it is much clearer than earlier, so I am thrilled about that," said Judge Arbuthnot, as she welcome the improvement within the forms submitted by means of the Indian authorities.
She has in the past been extraordinarily vital of the forms submitted for previous extradition cases, together with that of Mallya. She directed the CPS to make the index clearer within the opening remark, which is now because of be submitted by means of the Indian aspect by means of July 11.
A team from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) were provide all through the hearing in court, which was once especially packed because of a hearing within the Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange's case, which was once in the end adjourned because of his “ill health”.
CPS barrister Ed Martin, representing the Indian authorities within the Nirav Modi case, had presented a six-week timeframe as opposed to an initial eight-week length for the outlet remark after the judge driven for an earlier date to transport the criminal procedure alongside.
Nirav Modi was once taken back into custody at Wandsworth prison in south-west London, having been denied bail by means of the court on three previous occasions.
"This is a large fraud and the doubling of safety to two million kilos isn't sufficient to hide a mixture of considerations that he would fail to give up," Arbuthnot had dominated on the final hearing on May 8.
"A combination of interference with witnesses, destruction of servers and mobile phones and the lack of neighborhood ties means I still have doubts that he would fail to give up before the court,” she concluded.
Nirav Modi was once arrested by means of uniformed Scotland Yard officials on an extradition warrant from a Metro Bank department in central London on March 19 and has been in prison since.
During next hearings, Westminster Magistrates' Court was once instructed that Nirav Modi was once the "principal beneficiary" of the fraudulent issuance of letters of endeavor (LoUs) as part of a conspiracy to defraud PNB and then laundering the proceeds of crime.
Arbuthnot noted that Nirav Modi had "squirrelled away" funds that he might use for his break out from the UK if launched on bail, this means that he has remained at Wandsworth prison – considered one of England's maximum over-crowded jails – where his enjoy has been described by means of his attorneys as “vibrant and damaging”.
Nirav Modi, sought after in India to stand fees of fraud and money laundering amounting to nearly $2-billion within the Punjab National Bank (PNB) case, was once produced within the dock at Westminster Magistrates Court before Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot for his first case management hearing.
The 48-year-old, dressed in a blue shirt and black trousers, took notes as the judge mounted his next remand hearing via videolink for June 27 and set a 14-day closing date for the Indian authorities to substantiate the prison plans in India.
"There is not any reason it will have to not be replied inside 14 days,” Judge Arbuthnot said, adding that Arthur Road Jail would be the “evident candidate”.
Arbuthnot, who ordered the extradition of liquor magnate Vijay Mallya in December 2018, had sought a video of the exact mobile in which the previous Kingfisher Airlines boss was once to be held. She subsequently indicated that if Modi was once to be held inside the similar premises, the court would possibly not have any objections.
Nirav Modi's barrister, Clare Montgomery, agreed that until it was once the similar mobile, she would be in search of a court-appointed independent prison visit to ensure that any holding mobile in India met with human rights pointers.
No additional main points or timelines were set for the extradition trial on the first case management hearing on Thursday as Montgomery instructed the court that the defence team was once yet to obtain the outlet place remark at the case to start construction on its arguments.
The judge has given the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), representing the Indian government, six weeks' time to offer a gap place remark laying out the prima facie case in opposition to Nirav Modi, with the following case management hearing set for July 29 – when a timeline for extradition trial is expected to be laid out.
"I have had a short lived have a look at the pagination and it is much better than before… it is much clearer than earlier, so I am thrilled about that," said Judge Arbuthnot, as she welcome the improvement within the forms submitted by means of the Indian authorities.
She has in the past been extraordinarily vital of the forms submitted for previous extradition cases, together with that of Mallya. She directed the CPS to make the index clearer within the opening remark, which is now because of be submitted by means of the Indian aspect by means of July 11.
A team from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) were provide all through the hearing in court, which was once especially packed because of a hearing within the Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange's case, which was once in the end adjourned because of his “ill health”.
CPS barrister Ed Martin, representing the Indian authorities within the Nirav Modi case, had presented a six-week timeframe as opposed to an initial eight-week length for the outlet remark after the judge driven for an earlier date to transport the criminal procedure alongside.
Nirav Modi was once taken back into custody at Wandsworth prison in south-west London, having been denied bail by means of the court on three previous occasions.
"This is a large fraud and the doubling of safety to two million kilos isn't sufficient to hide a mixture of considerations that he would fail to give up," Arbuthnot had dominated on the final hearing on May 8.
"A combination of interference with witnesses, destruction of servers and mobile phones and the lack of neighborhood ties means I still have doubts that he would fail to give up before the court,” she concluded.
Nirav Modi was once arrested by means of uniformed Scotland Yard officials on an extradition warrant from a Metro Bank department in central London on March 19 and has been in prison since.
During next hearings, Westminster Magistrates' Court was once instructed that Nirav Modi was once the "principal beneficiary" of the fraudulent issuance of letters of endeavor (LoUs) as part of a conspiracy to defraud PNB and then laundering the proceeds of crime.
Arbuthnot noted that Nirav Modi had "squirrelled away" funds that he might use for his break out from the UK if launched on bail, this means that he has remained at Wandsworth prison – considered one of England's maximum over-crowded jails – where his enjoy has been described by means of his attorneys as “vibrant and damaging”.
UK court remands Nirav Modi till June 27
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