00:00All right, the heat now mounting on crickets are Lalit Modi hideout
00:05Vanu Tau to cancel the passport of Lalit Modi. Remember he got the passport just a few weeks ago
00:10Modi had earlier surrendered the Indian passport
00:13Ex-IPL chief accused of tax evasion and laundering. Modi fled India in 2010 amid the probe that was an ongoing one
00:21And it is an ongoing one. However
00:24this country of refuge now has
00:26cancelled his passport
00:31I
00:34Got
00:36Vanuatu to cancel the passport Lalit Modi had earlier surrendered the Indian passport
00:41I'm going to go straight across to Geeta Mohan for more details on that Geeta
00:45What were the reasons for a to then first ground the passport and then cancel it?
00:50well, when the initial request for
00:54Citizenship went about went to the country
00:58they did not really specifically have details on the fact that he is a wanted in India for in money laundering case and
01:06therefore Vanuatu
01:09Issued citizenship to the to to Lalit Modi
01:13but when it came to their notice and that's why the press release that has been put out by the
01:19Prime Minister's office Prime Minister in the past office. It very specifically says that
01:24the citizenship commission is now I was has been asked to begin proceedings to cancel the citizenship because
01:33during standard procedures and background checks the interpol screening did not really come up and
01:39only when he was made aware of the fact that there are cases against him and that
01:45That interpol requests were rejected but he's wanted in India that he has now asked
01:53the
01:55Citizenship Commission to immediately rescind the
02:00Citizenship as also begin proceedings to further that that order. All right, Geeta
02:06I'm going to thank you for the moment Geeta Mohan getting us up to speed with those details
02:10that we have with us at this point in time is about the cancellation of the passport that
02:14Vanuatu had issued to Prickett's are Lalit Modi
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