Billionaire to resume extradition battle in September

A billionaire diamond dealer accused of swindling £1.5 billion from a national bank will resume his battle against extradition to India in September. Nirav Modi, 49, one of India’s richest men, fled after allegedly taking part in the country’s biggest ever fraud on the state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB). Modi, a jeweller to the stars, was arrested on March 19 last year in Holborn, central London after a Metro bank employee identified him as a fugitive when he tried to…