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The federal probe agency was working to bring him back to India for a long time in connection with the loan fraud case of PNB.
The 62-year-old diamantaire who gained citizenship in Antigua and Barbuda in 2017, is wanted by the Indian investigative agencies for allegedly cheating the Punjab National Bank of Rs 13,500 crore.
The PNB officials at the bank's Brady House branch in Mumbai issued 165 letters of undertaking and 58 foreign letters of credit during March-April 2017, against which 311 bills were discounted.
Mehul Choksi had been living in Antigua and Barbuda since 2018 after taking the citizenship of the country.
The Antiguan police which has launched a missing person operation issued a statement along with the photograph of the businessman seeking information from public.
Modi, 50, who remains behind bars at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London, has 14 days to apply for permission to appeal against the Home Secretary's order in the High Court in London.
The 49-year-old jeweller, wanted in India on charges of fraud and money laundering in the estimated USD 2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case, further remanded in custody during a routine call-over hearing held via video link at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London.
At a scheduled hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court in London on Thursday, District Judge Samuel Goozee agreed the timetable for the second leg of Modi's extradition trial scheduled between September 7 and 11.
Nirav Modi, 49, is currently lodged in a UK jail after being arrested in London in March, 2019 and is currently fighting extradition to India.
Given the social distancing measures being followed by prisons and courts, District Judge Samuel Goozee had conceded that an alternative would be for him to be produced via videolink.