As per information received from the Directorate of Enforcement, New Delhi, the prosecution complaint has been filed against 53 persons, who are absconding, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The list is attached as Annexure-A.

 

The Ministry of External Affairs has not received any request from the Directorate of Enforcement, New Delhi or from the Ministry of Home Affairs for extradition of persons mentioned in the list in connection with cases under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

 

The Ministry of Home Affairs, the nodal Ministry for Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) in Criminal Matters, has conveyed that the India-UK MLAT in criminal matters does not cover the subject to bring back persons under investigation.  However, the CBI had submitted extradition request in respect of Mr. Vijay Mallya regarding the case under Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 for his extradition from UK. The extradition request has been sent to UK for their consideration under bilateral extradition treaty.

 

  

Annexure-A

 

S.No.	Name of Persons	S.No.	Name of Persons
1	Anil Jain	28	Abdul Karim Jaka
2	Yash Dilip Jain	29	Satyanarayan Tarachand Jaju
3	Pukhraj Anandmal Mutha	30	Vikram Jayantilal Choksi
4	Munnichand S.Bhandari	31	Rakesh Shyamlal Jariwala
5	Surendra Kumar Dungarwal	32	Surendra Singh Siddhu
6	Ajit Annu Kamath	33	Vinod Gangaram Datta
7	Amit Khicha	34	Uritkhinbam Budhichandra Singh @Budhi @Poirei @Bobby
8	Bilal Haroon Galani	35	Shri Kangujam Premjit Singh
9	Madan Lal Jain	36	Smt. Longjam Ningol Kangujam Ongbi Elizabeth Devi
10	Meena Madan Lal Jain	37	Smt. Kangujam Sanajaobi Devi
11	Parmeshwar Arjun Pareek	38	Md Komiruddin alias Kalimuddin alias Karimuddin
12	Javeri Jain	39	Paramjit Singh Sandhu
13	Jayesh Jain	40	Gulshan Masih
14	Kavit Kedia	41	Vijay Mallaya
15	Mukesh Jain	42	Nitish Thakur
16	Irfan Furniturewala	43	Shri Pasha@satyanarayan
17	Sunil Kothari	44	Shri Jagadeesh Alaga Raja
18	Harshad Maganlal Modi	45	Anjana Choksi
19	Deepak Shenoy	46	Kustubh Choksi
20	Santosh Naik	47	Ravindra Deshmukh
21	Sarfaraj Godil	48	Ajit Satam
22	Mukund bhai	49	Gangadharam G Yeligetti
23	Ashvin bhai	50	Vijay Kothari
24	P.Umesh Chandra	51	Shri Sridhar Dhanapal
25	Dipak kumar Vitthal Das	52	Shri Harpreet Singh
26	Patel Ashwin Haribhai	53	Amit Kumar
27	Urvish Dilipbhai Shah

 

This information was given by GEN. (DR) V. K. SINGH (RETD) the Minister of State for Ministry of External Affairs., in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

 

 

 

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