Diamond dealer was ‘wrongly charged’

A celebrity diamond dealer accused of swindling £1.5 billion from a national bank by bribing workers with his jewels has been wrongly charged because ‘no person has been deceived,’ a court heard. India’s most wanted man Nirav Modi, 49, fled after allegedly taking part in the country’s biggest ever fraud by using corrupt workers within 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…