NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) is likely to get a red-corner notice (RCN) issued against Lalit Modi . A blue-corner notice (BCN) is already pending against the former IPL chairman.

The RCN being worked out would be issued on the basis of a case registered by Mumbai zone of ED under stringent laws of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The law allows for criminal charges to be pressed against an individual and ED can press for Modi’s arrest and extradition from a foreign country through this.

The BCN is based on a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violation case against Modi. Contrary to PMLA, offences under FEMA are regarded to be civil in nature. ED’s PMLA case is based an FIR the BCCI had filed against Modi in October 2010 in Chennai for alleged misappropriation of funds.

“We have been wanting to interrogate him for years now. He has not been cooperating. We are now planning to get an RCN issued to force him to comply with the law,” said an ED official.

Sources said the agency is also preparing to send more showcause notices to Modi involving various cases under FEMA.

Meanwhile, Modi’s lawyer Mehmood M Abdi in a press conference in Mumbai on Monday stated that no blue corner notice was ever issued against Lalit Modi. He said “non-issues have been blown out of proportion.”