Our Correspondent /New Delhi
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has asked the Interpol to issue Red Corner Notice (RCN) against absconding diamond merchant Nirav Modi in connection with its probe into the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, agency sources said.
An ED source said that the financial probe agency has written to the Interpol requesting to issue the RCN, a request to locate and provisionally arrest an individual pending extradition. It is issued by the General Secretariat at the request of a member country or an international tribunal based on a valid national arrest warrant.
The agency’s move comes in the wake of the charge sheet it filed against 23 people including Nirav Modi in a special court in Mumbai.
A non-bailable warrant was issued against Nirav Modi and 10 other accused, including his family members, in the case related to the fraud, after taking cognisance of a charge sheet filed against them by the ED last month.