Reports: Lalit Modi faces a $7-mn legal challenge in the UK High Court

Lalit Modi, the London-based founder of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is going through a high court case in the UK. He is facing an approximately USD 7-million legal challenge in the High Court in England over the claims of misrepresentation by a former Indian model, as per a UK media report on Sunday.

Modi has however denied the allegations on him and has defended the claims brought in by Gurpreet Gill Maag who is now a Singapore-based venture capitalist also known as Blu as per the Sunday Times reports. She has alleged that Modi had persuaded her to invest USD 2 million in a cancer treatment venture named Ion Care. Modi is also put to blame for having falsely named prominent royals, including Prince Andrew Queen Elizabeth II’s son, among patrons of the scheme.

Modi has proposed a global network of cancer centers utilizing revolutionary single-dose radiotherapy. This was also used on his wife, Minal who eventually passed away in the year 2018. “He told me that it had given her seven more years of life,” Gill Maag is quoted in the newspaper as having said.

Gill Maag’s allegations on Lalit Modi

Gill Maag has also alleged Modi for naming other key figures which also include the former prime minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra as the investors. Gill Maag has now initiated to take the legal action represented by Matthew Evans, a senior associate at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain law firm in London after the project is said to be flopped by early 2019.

“Unfortunately, despite successfully treating a number of patients, the project was not able to obtain sufficient funding and the company went into liquidation,” reads a statement by Lalit Modi’s lawyers to The Sunday Times.

This case is expected to go for a trial at the High Court in London early next year. Lalit Mod had moved to London in the year 2010 whilst the scandals and controversies linked to the cricket IPL.

“Mr. Modi denies the allegations made by Mrs. Maag and is defending the claim in full. The matter will be decided by the High Court in due course and Mr. Modi is not able to comment further at this time. Mr. Modi confirms that no criminal charges have been leveled in any Indian court against him by any of the Indian authorities,” the statement read.