NEW DELHI: As the Enforcement Directorate’s extradition case against Nirav Modi and his brother Neeshal reaches a decisive stage, the latter has reached out to the agency seeking leniency but not before self-certifying himself through a forensic audit report on his business, distancing him from his fugitive brother who is presently detained in a prison in London.Sources said the ED has rebuffed Neeshal Modi ’s attempts to reach out to its investigation team, first through a letter written 11 months ago and now through emissaries seeking to deny charges framed against him by a special court in Mumbai which has taken cognizance of a chargesheet filed by the agency.Neeshal Modi is a co-accused along with his brother Nirav in the Punjab National Bank fraud and money laundering case to the tune of Rs 13,500 crore. Both the brothers and their sister Poorvi have been accused by the agency in a chargesheet filed in 2018 for laundering the funds received from PNB through Letters of Undertaking (LoUs). Their properties worth around Rs 3,000 crore have been attached, both in India and abroad, including several bank accounts and diamond parcels.“Extradition request for Neeshal Modi was sent to UAE as he was initially suspected to be in Dubai . Since he is a Belgium citizen, the government faced initial difficulties in deportation from Antwerp but the process is in advance stage now,” sources said.In his e-mail to ED about 11 months ago, a senior agency official said, Neeshal wrote that he never had any knowledge of alleged criminal activities of his brother and distanced from the “wrongdoing of Nirav Modi”. Neeshal further said that he was neither a shareholder nor a beneficiary of any of Nirav's wealth and was merely engaged as an employee on salary basis.