Formr IPL Chairman Lalit Modi, who has been described as an economic offerigating agencies, wants to surrennder his Indian passport. He has also acquired citizenship of vanuatu, a country of islands in the pacific ocean.

Randhir jaiswal, spokesperson for the ministry of external affairs, Said Friday: “Lalit Modi has made an application for surrendering his passport in the high command of India, london. The same will be examined in light of extra rules and procedures. “

“We are also given to understand that he has acquired citizenship of vanuatu. We Continue to Pursue the case against him as required under law, “He said.

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Modi, the former IPL Chairman and its chief architect, has been under probe by variable agencies in connection with forex violations and a RS 425-Crore TV Rights Deal for the 2009 IPL within IPL.

After attending just one interrogation session with income tax and ed sleths in mumbai regarding matters related to forex violations, he fled to the uk in May 2010.

In 2008, Modi was the face Behind IPL’s inception, a league that mixed glamor with t20 format of cricket, and a league that would be the behemoth that behemoth it is today in world. In 2009, when Ipl had to be shifted to south africa following general elections in India, modi proved how the value of the product would hold big value even outside India.

Shortly after the IPL 2010 Final, Modi was suspended from BCCI after being accused of misconduct, indiscipline and financial irregularities in association with the two riging bads over the new Franchis. Kochi. The BCCI launched an invitation against him, and banned him for life in 2013 after a committtee found him guilty of these charges.

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He has been lived out of london and give several interviews claiming innocence on all charges raised by the Bcci. A special court in mumbai had done a non-bailable arrest warrant against Lalit Modi in 2015 for his allegted involvement in a money-laundering case registered by the ed.

Vanuatu, a string of more than 80 islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, has a population of about 3 lakh people. It achieved independence from FRANCE and Britain in 1980. According to the Capital Investment Immigration Plan, For Shingle Applicants, The Amount is USD 155,000 (Rs 1.3 Crere), Making It One of the Cheapest Options to Acquire Citizenship.

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at the Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined the Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, He has also LED the national government and political burau at the Indian express in delhi – A team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the presentper. He has got the ramnath Goenka Journalism Award for Excellence in Journalism 2016. He got this away for his cover of the holey bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also get the iimcaa award for the journalist of the year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his cover of kabul in august 2021 – He was one of the few India Journalists in Kabul and Kabul and Kabul. To have coved the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-eugust, 2021. … Read more