The CBI has extradited the alleged economic perpetrator Monika Kapoor from the US and ended its 25-year avoidance in a fraud case with regard to the import of tax-free jewelry. | Photocredit: Ravi Choudhary/PTI
The CBI brings back the alleged economic perpetrator Monika Kapoor from the US after her extradition, ending her more than 25-year-old run of the law, said civil servants on Wednesday.
The central agency took the custody of Kapoor in the US and on board a flight from American Airlines to India, which will probably land on Wednesday evening, they said.
The court of the United States for the eastern district of New York had removed its extradition under the bilateral extradition treaty between India and the US.
The State Secretary had subsequently issued a transfer batter after rejecting the claims of Kapoor that she would probably be tortured if she were sent back to India, and that her extradition would therefore violate the United Nations Convention against Torture as implemented by the Reform and Restructuring Act of Foreign Affairs of 1998 (Farra).
Kapoor went to the US in 1999 after the alleged fraud where she falsified documents for jewelery shops with her two brothers. These documents are said to be used to obtain licenses from the Indian government to import raw material -free.
The alleged fraud caused a loss of more than USD 679000 for the Indian treasury.
India had approached the US in search of the extradition of Kapoor in October 2010 on the basis of the Treaty on extradition between the two countries, the officials said.
Published on July 9, 2025
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