Overview

• A CBI team took custody of Monika Kapoor in the United States on July 9 and boarded her on American Airlines flight AA 292, landing in India late Wednesday night.
• Her extradition was approved by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and finalized when Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected her torture claims and issued a surrender warrant.
• Kapoor is accused of forging export documents in 1998 to secure six duty-free gold import licences that were sold to Deep Exports, causing a ₹1.44 crore loss to the Indian exchequer.
• India formally requested her extradition under the Indo-U.S. Extradition Treaty in October 2010, following a CBI chargesheet filed in March 2004 and her designation as a proclaimed offender in February 2006.
• Her brothers Rajan and Rajiv Khanna were convicted in December 2017 in the same case, and Kapoor will be produced before a Delhi court to face charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery.