The five-day extradition trial of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi will begin from May 11 in a part-remote setting, a U.K. court has actually purchased.
Modi is battling his extradition to India over the nearly $ 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and cash laundering case
The 49- year-old, who has actually been lodged at Wandsworth Jail in south-west London given that his arrest last year, appeared prior to the court by means of videoconferencing due to the social distancing procedures put in location throughout U.K. courts in view of the COVID-19 pandemic
He spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth during the hearing, which happened at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London.
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District Judge Samuel Goozee, who commanded the case management hearing, expressed some bookings about the extradition hearing proceeding next month as arranged under the existing lockdown.
However it was agreed in between all the parties that a trial run of the court’s CVP (Common Watching Platform) will happen during a lawyers-only hearing on May 7 ahead of the last hearing.
” Some jails are producing detainees face to face, so I will direct Wandsworth Prison to produce Mr. Modi in person for the trial from May11 If that is not practicable, his involvement by li