Vanuatu has cancelled the passport of former IPL chief Lalit Modi. Modi, accused of tax evasion and money laundering, fled India in 2010 amid an ongoing probe. He had surrendered his Indian passport earlier. Vanuatu's Prime Minister's office stated that the Citizenship Commission has been asked to begin proceedings to cancel Modi's citizenship after becoming aware of the cases against him in India.
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00:00All right, the heat now mounting on crickets are Lalit Modi hideout
00:05Vanu Tau to cancel the passport of Lalit Modi. Remember he got the passport just a few weeks ago
00:10Modi had earlier surrendered the Indian passport
00:13Ex-IPL chief accused of tax evasion and laundering. Modi fled India in 2010 amid the probe that was an ongoing one
00:21And it is an ongoing one. However
00:24this country of refuge now has
00:26cancelled his passport
00:31I
00:34Got
00:36Vanuatu to cancel the passport Lalit Modi had earlier surrendered the Indian passport
00:41I'm going to go straight across to Geeta Mohan for more details on that Geeta
00:45What were the reasons for a to then first ground the passport and then cancel it?
00:50well, when the initial request for
00:54Citizenship went about went to the country
00:58they did not really specifically have details on the fact that he is a wanted in India for in money laundering case and
01:06therefore Vanuatu
01:09Issued citizenship to the to to Lalit Modi
01:13but when it came to their notice and that's why the press release that has been put out by the
01:19Prime Minister's office Prime Minister in the past office. It very specifically says that
01:24the citizenship commission is now I was has been asked to begin proceedings to cancel the citizenship because
01:33during standard procedures and background checks the interpol screening did not really come up and
01:39only when he was made aware of the fact that there are cases against him and that
01:45That interpol requests were rejected but he's wanted in India that he has now asked
01:53the
01:55Citizenship Commission to immediately rescind the
02:00Citizenship as also begin proceedings to further that that order. All right, Geeta
02:06I'm going to thank you for the moment Geeta Mohan getting us up to speed with those details
02:10that we have with us at this point in time is about the cancellation of the passport that
02:14Vanuatu had issued to Prickett's are Lalit Modi