Nirav Modi to appear via videolink for customary remand hearing in UK

Modi has been lodged at Wandsworth prison in south-west London since his arrest in March on an extradition warrant executed by Scotland Yard

Current Affairs:-Criminal diamantaire Nirav Modi, needed in India regarding the almost $2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) misrepresentation and tax evasion case, is set to show up under the steady gaze of a UK court for his standard 28-day remand hearing on Thursday.

The 48-year-old is probably going to be educated regarding the dates for his preliminary on the removal charges brought by the Indian government, being spoken to at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London by the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Modi has been held up at Wandsworth jail in south-west London since his capture in March on a removal warrant executed by Scotland Yard.

Boss Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot had directed the last remand hearing at the court by means of videolink from the jail where Modi is being held, during which she had shown that the dates for an expected five-day preliminary would be commonly concurred by the two sides soon.

According to the timetables talked about during the concise hearing, the judge said she expected to get all the proof and skeleton contention packages for the situation by April 8, with a five-day hearing at that point expected to be opened in May one year from now.

There are probably going to be various case the board hearings in front of that yet in the mean time an arranged case the executives hearing for next Monday was cleared as not required.

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