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You Destroyed My Brand, Limited Chance To Recover Dues: Nirav Modi To PNB
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 IST
You Destroyed My Brand, Limited Chance To Recover Dues: Nirav Modi To PNB

In a letter Nirav Modi wrote on February 15/16 to the Punjab National Bank management, a copy of which PTI has seen, he pegged the money his companies owe to the bank at under Rs 5,000 crore.
 

 
 

Mumbai: Celebrity jeweller Nirav Modi, the alleged kingpin of the largest banking scam in the country's history, has said PNB's overzealousness shut the doors on his ability to clear the dues in a letter to the Punjab National Bank's management.
 
Mr Modi also said the dues were much less than what the bank has claimed, and that his relatives booked in the cases filed by the central agencies had nothing to do with the operations of the firms under their scanner.
 
In a letter Mr Modi wrote on February 15/16 to the Punjab National Bank management, a copy of which PTI has seen, he pegged the money his companies owe to the bank at under Rs 5,000 crore.
 
"The erroneously cited liability resulted in a media frenzy which led to immediate search and seizure of operations, and which in turn resulted in Firestar International and Firestar Diamond International effectively ceasing to be going-concerns," he wrote in the letter.
 
"This thereby jeopardised our ability to discharge the dues of the group to the banks," Mr Modi wrote in the letter.
 
"In the anxiety to recover your dues immediately, despite my offer (on February 13, a day before the public announcement, and on 15) your actions have destroyed my brand and the business and have now restricted your ability to recover all the dues leaving a trail of unpaid debts," he said.
 
The letter also refers to the extended discussions between him, and between his representatives and the bank officers, besides his emails of February 13 and 15, 2018.
 
Nirav Modi left the country along with his family in the first week of January, before the alleged scam became public.
 
The PNB, the second largest state-run bank, had, on February 14, informed the exchanges about detecting a $ 1.77 billion fraud at its Brady House branch in Mumbai, and named the firms led by Mr Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi's Gitanjali Group, and some other diamond and jewellery merchants as suspects.
 
Central government agencies the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate have registered cases on the complaint by the bank, and launched nationwide searches on dozens of offices and residences of the alleged fraudsters. The bank has named Nirav Modi's brother, his American wife Ami, and uncle Mehul Choksi besides some others in the FIR.
 
On the over Rs 11,000-crore loss claimed by the PNB in the FIR, Mr Modi said, "As you are aware, this is entirely incorrect and the liability of the Nirav Modi Group is substantially less." He said that even after PNB's complaint was filed, he wrote to them in good faith asking them to sell or allow him to "sell Firestar Group, or their valuable assets, and recover the dues not just from Firestar Group, but also from the three firms." 
 
Valuing his domestic business at around Rs 6,500 crore, he said, "This could have helped reduce/discharge the debt to the banking system," but added that this is not possible as all his bank accounts have been frozen and assets sealed or seized.
 
He went on to state that PNB had time and again acknowledged that the buyers credit facility has been extended by it to the three partnership firms for several years, and that there has been no default on the part of any of these firms over all these years. He said that money went through PNB all these years for the repayments of the advances given by the overseas bank branches under the buyers credit.
 
"That Firestar International and Firestar Diamond International have never been in default to any bank, and the bankers are fully secured". He also said that PNB has over the years been earning bank charges to the tune of crores of rupees on the buyers credit facility extended by PNB to the three partnership firms and that PNB has extended the money to the firm's buyers as well from where also it has been receiving full payments, with interest and on time all these years.
 
On the valuables that CBI and ED searches yielded Rs 5,649 crore, he said, "These, and other assets of the group and the three firms could have settled all the amounts due to banks. However, now that stage appears to have passed." He concluded by requesting the bank to "be fair, and support my efforts to make good all the amounts that are found due by my group to all banks." 
 
Owning up everything, he said the bank has wrongly named his brother, who is not at all concerned with the operations of the three firms or other companies. "My wife is not connected with any business operations at all and she has been wrongly named. My uncle is also wrongly named in this complaint since he has an independent and unconnected business and none of them are aware or concerned with my dealings with your bank."
 
"Whatever may be the consequences I may face for my actions, the haste was, in my humble submission, unwarranted," Mr Modi concluded and requested the bank to permit him to pay the salaries to 2,200 employees from the balance lying in the current accounts of his firms.
 

 
 
 
 
 

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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

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