The Central Bureau of Investigation has taken custody of Monika Kapoor in the United States and is flying her back to India, ending a quarter-century effort to bring the alleged economic offender to trial. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York cleared her extradition under the bilateral treaty, and the U.S. Secretary of State issued a surrender warrant after dismissing her claims of potential ill-treatment in India. Kapoor is expected to arrive in New Delhi late Wednesday on an American Airlines flight accompanied by CBI officers. Kapoor, proprietor of Monika Overseas, is accused of forging export documents between 1998 and 2002 to secure six replenishment licences for duty-free gold imports valued at ₹2.36 crore. Investigators say the licences were sold to Deep Exports in Ahmedabad, which used them to import gold, causing the Indian exchequer an estimated loss of ₹1.44 crore. A charge sheet was filed in March 2004 against Kapoor and her brothers Rajan and Rajiv Khanna; the brothers were convicted in 2017, but Kapoor had fled to the United States in 1999 and skipped court proceedings. The CBI obtained an open non-bailable arrest warrant in 2010 and sent a formal extradition request to U.S. authorities the same year. Her surrender marks one of the agency’s longest pursuit of an economic fugitive and underscores renewed cooperation between New Delhi and Washington on cross-border white-collar crime. Kapoor will be produced before a Delhi court after arrival to face charges including criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery.
CBI takes alleged economic offender Monika Kapoor into custody and is bringing her from the US to India. She is accused of a 2002 Import-Export fraud. In a statement, the CBI said, Fugitive Monika Kapoor went to the USA in 1999 after the alleged fraud, where she, along with her https://t.co/bfuMffBzh1
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केंद्रीय अन्वेषण ब्यूरो #CBI ने कथित आर्थिक अपराधी मोनिका कपूर को अमरीका में हिरासत में लिया है। उसे आज देश वापस लाया जा रहा है। मोनिका कपूर पर 2002 में आयात-निर्यात धोखाधड़ी का आरोप है और वह तब से फरार है।