NEW DELHI: Vanuatu Jotham Napat Prime Minister On Monday, he directed the cancellation of the Vanuatu passport issued to the fugitive businessman Lalit Modi after the recent reports of the international media.
“I have instructed the citizenship commission to immediately begin the procedures to cancel Vanuatu’s passport of Lalit Modi,” said Napat.
“While all standard background checks, including Interpol evaluations, made during their request, did not show criminal sentences, in the last 24 hours I have realized that Interpol twice rejected the requests of the Indian authorities to issue an alert notice on the application of Lalit Modi due to the lack of substantive judicial evidence. Such alert would have caused an automatic rejection of rejection of rejection of rejection of rejection of rejection Lalit Modi, “he added.
Vanuatu’s prime minister specified that having a Vanuatu passport is a privilege, not a right, and that applicants must have legitimate reasons to seek citizenship. “None of those legitimate reasons includes trying to avoid extradition, that recent events clearly brought to light that was the intention of Lalit Modi,” he added.
Meanwhile, the former president of the IPL previously submitted a request to deliver his Indian passport in the Indian High Commission in London after acquiring the citizenship of the Nation of the Pacific Island. The Ministry of External Affairs declared that its application would be reviewed under “existing rules and procedures.”
“We are also given to understand that Lalit Modi has acquired the citizenship of Vanuatu. We continue to pursue the case against him as necessary according to the law,” said a MEA spokesman previously.
India has repeatedly sought the assistance of the United Kingdom in the extradition of Lalit Modi, who has faced legal procedures related to financial irregularities.
