The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

Just eleven days after Mick Brown and Robert Mendick exposed the billionaire fugitive’s hideout, Nirav Modi stands in a dock in Westminster Magistrates’ Court. He’s here to discover whether the law is about to catch up with him. Little does he know just how long the battle is going to take.

Seven years on, the saga is still ongoing. Mick and Rob pick up where they left off and reveal new information about Nirav’s life on the run: from lavish London living and private chefs, to clandestine meetings with fellow fugitive Vijay Mallya.

But now after years behind bars and with the prospect of extradition looming, is the final chapter in the Diamond King’s story about to be written? 

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Reporters and writers - Mick Brown and Robert Mendick

Producer, writer and sound design - Anna Staufenberg 

Executive producer and story editor - Cara McGoogan

Mixing - Elliot Lampitt 

Original theme music - Sandeep Thulasidas

Additional music - John Cadigan 

Commissioning editor - Louisa Wells 

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Highlights:

• A Fugitive's Hideout
• Seven years on, the saga is still ongoing

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The Diamond King has vanished, but the hunt is only just beginning. As the Indian authorities seize Nirav Modi’s bank accounts, jewellery, cars, art and dozens of properties, the man himself is nowhere to be found. 

Rumours swirl that he could be in New York, Hong Kong, Cyprus or Antwerp.

But then Mick Brown and Robert Mendick learn Nirav isn’t in a far-flung corner of the globe. After Mick writes about the diamantaire’s dramatic fall for the Telegraph Luxury magazine, he receives an intriguing email from a confidential source: the billionaire fugitive is far closer than we thought. 

Here’s the inside story of how Mick and Rob achieved what the British police and Indian authorities failed to do: capture the Diamond King.

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Reporters and writers - Mick Brown and Robert Mendick

Producer, writer and sound design - Anna Staufenberg 

Executive producer and story editor - Cara McGoogan

Mixing - Elliot Lampitt 

Original theme music - Sandeep Thulasidas

Additional music - John Cadigan 

Commissioning editor - Louisa Wells 

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Highlights:

• Catch Me If You Can
• How Rob and Mick found Nirav Modi

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Nirav Modi’s diamond empire has reached unimaginable heights,. He’s got the backing of some of the world’s most powerful people, and his designs are worn by Hollywood and Bollywood’s biggest names.

But when a bank manager at a small branch in Mumbai retires, his replacement notices something that doesn’t add up. Hidden behind years of paperwork and financial transactions lies the answer to the question many have asked: where was Nirav getting the money? Within days, the illusion crumbles. All hell breaks loose. 

As investigators in India and the US close in on what they allege is a billion-pound fraud, Nirav’s diamond empire collapses. Stores are shut down, employees lose their jobs and the arrests begin. But there’s one person nobody can find: Nirav Modi. The diamond king has vanished. He's now one of the world’s most wanted men. 

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Reporters and writers - Mick Brown and Robert Mendick

Producer, writer and sound design - Anna Staufenberg 

Executive producer and story editor - Cara McGoogan

Mixing - Elliot Lampitt 

Original theme music - Sandeep Thulasidas

Additional music - John Cadigan 

Commissioning editor - Louisa Wells 

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Highlights:

• The Missing Billions
• Where was Nirav Modi getting the money?

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In 2010, a fresh-faced newcomer launches himself into the luxury world of high-end jewellery. His name is Nirav Modi, an ambitious diamantaire who dropped out of business school to make jewellery for the world’s elite. His vision is to fuse East with West; to bring something of India’s tradition into western designs. 

Within a few years, he’s risen to the top. He opens stores on the most prestigious shopping streets in New York, London, Macau and Hong Kong. But he doesn’t stop there; he wants his name in bright lights around the world.

For now, it seems Nirav’s rise is unstoppable. But there’s something about him that leaves those around him feeling unsettled; and then, the questions start – where are the billions coming from? 

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Reporters and writers - Mick Brown and Robert Mendick

Producer, writer and sound design - Anna Staufenberg 

Executive producer and story editor - Cara McGoogan

Mixing - Elliot Lampitt 

Original theme music - Sandeep Thulasidas

Additional music - John Cadigan 

Commissioning editor - Louisa Wells 

Archive supplied by the BBC and Getty 

Highlights:

• All That Glitters
• The Rise of Nirav Modi

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The rise and fall of Nirav Modi, accused of India’s biggest ever bank fraud – and how The Telegraph caught him. 

Nirav Modi was a billionaire diamond tycoon whose jewellery was worn by Kate Winslet and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. But in 2018 he was charged with masterminding a £1.3 billion fraud. Now one of the world’s most wanted men, he disappeared. Where was he hiding and would he face justice?

The Diamond King: Coming Friday 10th July.

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John’s investigation keeps coming up against brick walls - and five decades on, so does Katherine’s. When Kenya admits to a cover-up it begins to make sense. But it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Who exactly were the authorities covering up for, and was the British government involved? As her reporting comes to a close, Katherine celebrates a young woman whose life was cut short; and at the eleventh hour, a chat with a Mi6 agent sheds new light on Julie’s case.

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A whistleblower comes forward claiming to have witnessed everything and pointing the finger at someone nobody expected: Jonathan Moi, the president’s son. It's almost too far-fetched to be believed, but his name starts coming up again, and again. An incriminating scrap of paper. A police statement locked up for decades. Rumours of a romance. Katherine investigates the evidence.  

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With Julie’s murderer still at large, attention focuses on the last man to see her alive and the head ranger of the Masai Mara game reserve. Reporter Katherine goes to Kenya herself to track them down and see if their recollections can help unlock the decades-old cold case. A previously unknown tip from a Masai elder emerges. Could this be the breakthrough the Ward family has been waiting for? 

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The authorities insist Julie killed herself, but father John refuses to believe it. An altered post-mortem prompts him to take matters into his own hands. When a team of British cops is dispatched to Kenya, hopes are high that they can solve the riddle of Julie’s murder/death. How did her jeep end up nine miles from her body? What are those strange marks on her leg? And who forged her signature in a nearby guesthouse?

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On a cold February day in 1988, Julie Ward sets off on the journey of a lifetime from England, through Africa. She establishes a new life in the bustling capital of Kenya but mysteriously disappears while on safari - leaving her plane ticket back to England untouched on a table in her Nairobi home. When her father John flies to Kenya to track her down, he finds a gruesome crime scene in the Masai Mara that throws up more questions than it answers. 

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