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Rs 5,000 CR bank fraud: Nitin Sandesara, family may have fled to Nigeria

Highlights Vadodara-based Sterling Biotech, its directors Nitin, Chetan and Dipti Sandesara booked by ED and CBI for Rs 5,000 CR bank fraud It is alleged that the Sandesaras set up more than 300 shell and benami companies in India and abroad Family suspected to be in Nigeria, a country that does not have extradition treaty with India  A month after reports suggested that Nitin Sandesara, owner of Gujarat-based Sterling Biotech + and wanted by the CBI and the ED in a Rs 5,000 crore bank fraud, was detained in Dubai + , it has now emerged that he is not in the UAE and could have fled to Nigeria. According to top sources in the two agencies, Sandesara and other family members including brother Chetan Sandesara and sister-in-law Diptiben Sandesara were believed to be hiding in Nigeria. India doesn’t not have an extradition treaty or a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with Nigeria and bringing them back from the African country would be difficult, sources ...