New Delhi: In a fresh worry for former Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sought an Interpol notice against him in connection with its probe into a money laundering case relating to alleged financial irregularities in the operations of various editions of the T20 cricket tournament.
Officials said the agency’s Mumbai office officialy moved for a ‘Red Interpol notice’ against Modi on the basis of a non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued recently by a special court in the city.
The agency has sought the global notice, sources said, as domestic legal remedies to serve its previously issued Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) notice on Modi had not met with any success even as the ED alleged that Modi had not cooperated with it in the investigations so far.
The ED headquarters, sources said, later forwarded the legal request to the CBI head office in Mumbai to get a notice issued through the latter’s Interpol wing.
A CBI spokesperson said the request was received on Tuesday from the ED and it will be processed after due verification.
CBI is the nodal agency for Interpol-related affairs in India. Modi is currently based in the United Kingdom.
