CBI Reclaims Fugitive Monika Kapoor from US, ends 25-year-long run

In a case of long-troubled Monika Kapoor, an alleged economic offender, who fled the country 25-years ago, the CBI is extraditing her to India, where she will finally face the law, an official said Wednesday.

According to them, the central agency even took Kapoor into custody in the USA and has already boarded an American Airlines flight to India which is expected to get landed in India on Wednesday night.

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She had been extradited to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York that had cleared her extradition under the bilateral extradition treaty between India and the USA.

After the secretary of the state dismissed the arguments by Kapoor that she would probably be tortured upon her arrival in India and that her extradition would contravene the United Nations Convention against Torture as amended by the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (FARRA), a warrant of surrender had been issued by the secretary of state.

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In 1999 the alleged fraud Kapoor moved to the USA and there together with two brothers she and her brothers made the forgery of documents to service jewellery business. These papers were said to have been used to import raw materials in the country duty free by getting licenses on the same by the Indian government.

More than USD 679000 of the Indian exchequer was lost as a result of the alleged fraud.

In October, 2010, the two countries had signed an extradition treaty that the officials said India had accessed to seek the extradition of Kapoor.

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