Nirav Modi does not smoke. |
Nirav Modi drinks alcohol. |
He was born into a Gujarati Family in Antwerp city, Belgium. |
His father moved to Belgium in the early 1940s to expand the family's diamond business in the country. |
The Modi family has been in the Diamonds and Jewellery business for about seven generations. |
His maternal uncle, Mehul Choksi, is the CEO and Managing Director of Gitanjali Gems, the world's largest jewellery retailer company. |
At 19, he dropped out of college to work with his uncle in India for about 10 years. |
In 1999, he founded his own jewellery firm, Firestar Diamond International, specializing in diamonds. |
In 2005 and 2007, he acquired two jewellery distribution and marketing firms to establish a presence in the USA. |
In 2010, he created the Nirav Modi's Golconda necklace, sold for 16.29 crore rupees at an auction. |
The opening of his store in New York garnered global media attention. |
Following the scandal, opposing political parties criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his encounters with Nirav Modi at a Davos economic summit. |