Live updates: Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi's passport suspended for four weeks
Nirav Modi, who holds an Indian passport, left India on January 1.
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New Delhi: The passport issuing authority in the Ministry of External Affairs on Friday suspended the validity of passports of Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi with immediate effect for a period of four weeks. Their passports have been suspended on the advice of the Enforcement Directorate.
Modi, who holds an Indian passport, had left India on January 1, while his brother Nishal, a Belgian citizen, departed from the country on the same day. However, whether they travelled together has to be probed. Modi's wife Ami, a US citizen, left on January 6 and his maternal uncle and business associate Mehul Choksi left on January 4.
Meanwhile, the ED today issued summons for appearance to billionaire diamond merchant and Choksi in connection with its money laundering probe in the Rs 11,400 crore alleged fraud in Punjab National Bank (PNB).
Both Modi and Choksi were summoned under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and asked to depose within a week's time.
The ED has registered a PMLA case against them and others based on a CBI FIR following a complaint by PNB.
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