NEW DELHI: Tightening its noose on former IPL chairman Lalit Modi , the Enforcement Directorate on Monday issued summons asking him to appear for questioning within a fortnight, failing which the agency will take ‘appropriate action’.

Summons have been issued to Modi in a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, based on an FIR filed by the BCCI in Chennai in 2010 accusing him of misappropriation of Rs 470 crore in award of telecast rights and commercial airtime.

The charges under PMLA will put the British authorities under pressure to repatriate Modi who kicked up a political storm back home through his revelations that he was helped by union minister Sushma Swaraj for travel documents to visit his ailing wife in Portugal and Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje with regard to his application for UK residency.

Former BCCI chief N Srinivasan was questioned by the ED on Thursday in connection with the telecast rights case.

The Forex violation is reported to be in the award of 10-year media rights contract by the BCCI to the World Sports Group (WSG) in 2008. The same year, the WSG entered into a deal with the Multi Screen Media to make Sony the official broadcaster. The contract was replaced a year later with a nine-year deal with Multi Screen Media.

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ED initiated a probe to investigate allegations that payment of Rs 425 crore facilitation fee (media rights) by MSM (Singapore) to WSG (Mauritius) was made in an unauthorised manner.

The summons to Lalit Modi follows recording of Srinivasan’s statements. The notice has been delivered to Modi’s lawyers in Mumbai.

Modi had been issued several summons earlier when the I-T department and ED started an investigation against him in 2010. The government also revoked his passport to ensure that he was repatriated from London where he has been staying. However, in the last two-three years there was no progress in the case as Modi never returned and filed for residency in the UK.

Modi has been accused in at least 16 foreign exchange management act cases and one PMLA case.

Read this in Hindi: ललित मोदी पर ऐक्शन के मूड में सरकार, ED ने भेजा नोटिस