{"id":4192,"date":"2026-07-22T19:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:54:48","slug":"lalit-modi-says-his-home-will-remain-london-but-he-will-now-visit-india-after-winning-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=4192","title":{"rendered":"Lalit Modi says his home will remain London but he will now visit India after winning tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132567465,imgsize-465613,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/lalit-modi.jpg\" alt=\"Lalit Modi says his home will remain London but he will now visit India after winning tribunal\" title=\"IPL founder Lalit Modi has announced he will be returning to India (File photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"IPL founder Lalit Modi has announced he will be returning to India (File photo)\">IPL founder Lalit Modi has announced he will be returning to India (File photo)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">TOI correspondent from London<\/span>: IPL founder <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/lalit-modi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lalit Modi<\/a>, who fled to London in 2010 after the cricket tournament was embroiled in alleged match-fixing and illegal betting, has announced he will be returning to India.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>On Tuesday the appellate tribunal under SAFEMA in New Delhi set aside penalties imposed on him by the ED in connection with the Fema case related to the 2009 IPL held in South Africa.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Modi will continue to live in his 22,000-sq-ft mansion with nine bedrooms in London\u2019s Belgrave Square. \u201cAs my name has been cleared, I don\u2019t want to be shown as I can\u2019t go back. My daughter is having a baby in Oct so I might go then. I have won all my cases in India and there is nothing outstanding. <!-- -->I am confident I can go back. My home remains London, but my heart has never stopped beating for India,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Modi surrendered his Indian passport last year after acquiring Vanuatu citizenship, so will now have to apply for an OCI card. \u201cHopefully they will grant me the same so I can visit my homeland,\u201d he told TOI by phone from the jet-set island of Mykonos, Greece. \u201cI am a Vanuatu citizen. It has never been taken away.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>He was sacked as chairman of the franchise cricket league on multiple charges of financial irregularities after the IPL 3 final in 2010. In 2013 the BCCI banned him for life.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>\u201cThey will lift the ban themselves when they want to, but I am not going to get involved in cricket. I have created the biggest property in the world for them and it should be the right thing for them to do. But it doesn\u2019t bother me,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>He claimed the actual reason he fled India was because Dawood Ibrahim had made threats to his life. \u201cIt was because I wasn\u2019t allowing fixing. I see no reason to be a threat to him anymore. I would be bothered about him if I was going to be involved in cricket, but I have no intentions of being involved in cricket,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>He said a red corner notice against him was never issued and no extradition request was ever executed. \u201cThere was no document to prove anything,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/uk\/lalit-modi-says-his-home-will-remain-london-but-he-will-now-visit-india-after-winning-tribunal\/articleshow\/132567463.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPL founder Lalit Modi has announced he will be returning to India (File photo) TOI correspondent from London: IPL founder Lalit Modi, who fled to London in 2010 after the cricket tournament was embroiled in alleged match-fixing and illegal betting, has announced 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