London, UK: On his usual day of diamond business even after escaping from India, Nirav Modi, was caught by a UK-based reporter of ‘The Telegraph’ on busy streets of London, wandering around looking for a taxi with a fix on his lips of ‘no comments’.
The fraudster Nirav Modi, who illegally obtained Rs. 13,000 crore from Punjab National Bank (PNB) is wanted in India.
A British reporter of the The Telegraph caught Modi on Friday and hunted him down to ask questions about him having cheated the country, bank, the money he owe to the people, his extradition and so on.
When the reporter asked whether he had applied for political asylum, Nirav Modi said, “Sorry, no comment.” Then he walked across the road in his black Ostrich hide jacket that normally costs upwards of 10,000 pounds (over Rs. 9 lakh).
“Modi appears to have adopted a surprisingly nonchalant attitude to his fugitive status, walking his small dog each day between his apartment and the diamond company’s office in a townhouse in Soho, just a few hundred yards from his Centre Point home,” The Telegraph reported. The apartment is worth 8 million pounds (Rs. 75 crore), the newspaper said.
The newspaper, quoting government sources, reported that Nirav Modi has been given a national insurance number – needed to legally work in the UK – and has been operating bank accounts online while being wanted by India. The report said it is not clear why was he given the national insurance number.
The British newspaper shared an exclusive video of 2 minute, 13 seconds wherein the fugitive billionaire is seen running away from the camera, dismissing questions and saying “no comments” six times to most of the questions asked by journo.
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