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CBI succeeds in extradition of fugitive Monika Kapoor from US

New Delhi, July 9 (UNI) A two decades' chase of CBI ended today with the successful extradition of fugitive Monika Kapoor, who is accused of an import-export fraud in 2002 and has been on the run since then, from the USA, India's premier investigation agency said.
Fugitive Monika Kapoor, proprietor of Monika Overseas, has been accused of conspiring with her brothers Rajan Khanna and Rajiv Khanna, to forge export documents, including shipping bills, invoices and bank certificates of export and realization during the year 1998 and obtained 6 Replenishment (Rep.) Licences for import of duty-free gold worth Rs 2.36 crore, the CBI said in a statement.
Further they sold the said Rep. Licences to Deep Exports, Ahmedabad, on premium. The Ahmedabad company then utilized the said licences and imported duty free gold which caused loss to the government exchequer to the extent of Rs1.44 crore during the year 1998.n
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