LONDON BANK’S CLERK CALLED THE POLICE
Nirav got rude shock as he had already fixed ‘appointment for arrest’
Naomi Canton
London: Times of India 21.03.2019
Wanted diamantaire Nirav Modi knew an arrest warrant has been issued for him and had hoped to be arrested in a less dramatic manner. He had an appointment on Monday, March 25, at a central London police station at 9am. The date and time had been arranged through his lawyer Anand Doobay of Boutique Law, who happens to be the same solicitor another fugitive from the Indian law, Vijay Mallya, uses.
This was how Mallya had done it. On April 18, 2017, at 8.30am, the former liquor baron had appeared at a central London police station by appointment. He had known about it in advance. There were no handcuffs. He was fully cooperative and was simply driven to Westminster magistrates’ court in a police car.
But Nirav Modi’s arrest did not go as he had planned. Instead, uniformed police swooped down on him inside a London bank on Tuesday.
George Hepburne Scott, the barrister representing Modi at Westminster magistrates’ court on Wednesday, said on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 19, the 48-year-old had gone to Metro Bank in Holborn to open a bank account with a revoked Indian passport and his council tax bill as his ID. When he got there, the bank clerk, aware of the publicity surrounding his case, called the cops. Uniformed police turned up and
his passport, which was revoked by the Indian government, was seized and he was arrested and taken to police cells. He spent the night in a cell before being produced at the Westminster magistrates’ court at midday local time
(5.30pm IST) on Wednesday.
Scott explained, “On March 12 the extradition squad contacted Doobay, and Doobay requested an arrest appointment. The extradition squad called back on March 13 and the date of the arrest by appointment was fixed for March 25, 2019. My understanding is the extradition squad had fixed this up with both the CPS (crown prosecution service) and the court.”
Nirav got rude shock as he had already fixed ‘appointment for arrest’
Naomi Canton
London: Times of India 21.03.2019
Wanted diamantaire Nirav Modi knew an arrest warrant has been issued for him and had hoped to be arrested in a less dramatic manner. He had an appointment on Monday, March 25, at a central London police station at 9am. The date and time had been arranged through his lawyer Anand Doobay of Boutique Law, who happens to be the same solicitor another fugitive from the Indian law, Vijay Mallya, uses.
This was how Mallya had done it. On April 18, 2017, at 8.30am, the former liquor baron had appeared at a central London police station by appointment. He had known about it in advance. There were no handcuffs. He was fully cooperative and was simply driven to Westminster magistrates’ court in a police car.
But Nirav Modi’s arrest did not go as he had planned. Instead, uniformed police swooped down on him inside a London bank on Tuesday.
George Hepburne Scott, the barrister representing Modi at Westminster magistrates’ court on Wednesday, said on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 19, the 48-year-old had gone to Metro Bank in Holborn to open a bank account with a revoked Indian passport and his council tax bill as his ID. When he got there, the bank clerk, aware of the publicity surrounding his case, called the cops. Uniformed police turned up and
his passport, which was revoked by the Indian government, was seized and he was arrested and taken to police cells. He spent the night in a cell before being produced at the Westminster magistrates’ court at midday local time
(5.30pm IST) on Wednesday.
Scott explained, “On March 12 the extradition squad contacted Doobay, and Doobay requested an arrest appointment. The extradition squad called back on March 13 and the date of the arrest by appointment was fixed for March 25, 2019. My understanding is the extradition squad had fixed this up with both the CPS (crown prosecution service) and the court.”
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