British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has ordered the extradition of Sanjay Bhandari, an accused intermediary and marketing consultant in arms offers, to India to face costs of tax evasion and cash laundering.

According to Home Office sources, the extradition was ordered final week and Bhandari now has 14 days till the top of this month to enchantment towards the order within the administrative division of the High Court in London.

The 60-year-old confronted two extradition requests from the Indian authorities, the primary associated to cash laundering and the second to tax evasion.

The growth comes two months after a UK court docket in November dominated that Bhandari will be extradited to India to face costs of tax evasion and cash laundering and paved the way in which for the British authorities to order his extradition.

District Judge Michael Snow, who heard the case at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London final 12 months, had concluded that there are not any bars to him being extradited and determined to ship the case to the Indian-origin Home Secretary Braverman.

The decide concluded a prima facie case had been established with respect to each extradition requests.

“He failed to declare his overseas income and assets…He benefited from the income and assets that had not been declared. A reasonable jury can properly infer benefit from his undeclared income and purchase of substantial assets overseas,” the court docket stated in its ruling.

The Indian authorities’s extradition request for Bhandari had been licensed by then UK Home Secretary Priti Patel in June 2020 and he was arrested on an extradition warrant the next month that 12 months.

The London-based businessman has been on bail on safety supplied to the court docket as he fought extradition on the instances towards him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED).

According to the court docket paperwork, Bhandari is needed in India for meant prosecution for an offence of cash laundering opposite to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002 and for offences of tax evasion opposite to the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Asset), Imposition of Tax Act 2015 and Income Tax Act 1961.

Bhandari, who was resident in India for tax functions on the time in 2015, is accused of concealing abroad belongings, utilizing backdated paperwork, benefiting from the belongings not declared to the Indian tax authorities after which falsely informing the authorities that he didn’t possess any abroad belongings. He, nevertheless, denies the allegations.

The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), on behalf of the Indian authorities, argued that Bhandari’s conduct quantities to “fraud by false representation” in the British jurisdiction.

Bhandari’s defence team had sought to argue against the prima facie case and also on human rights grounds, claiming a “real risk” that he would be subjected to torture by the police and of a breach of his Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) rights because of the conditions in Indian prisons, from “non-state agents and from the prison guards”.

“Assurances have been given in this case. It is the Government’s case that the defendant will be held at ward No. 4 Central Jail No. 3, Tihar Jail Complex in New Delhi,” the judgment famous.

“India is a friendly country governed by the rule of law. I have not been made aware of any assurance that has not been honoured,” it added.

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