New Delhi, Jun 11 (PTI): The Central Bureau of Investigation has asked Interpol to issue a Red Corner Notice against absconding billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi in the over $2 billion banking scam involving Punjab National Bank, officials said on Monday. 

A red corner notice calls on Interpol member nations to arrest and extradite Nirav Modi, who fled the country in the first week of January, weeks before the bank filed a complaint with the CBI.

Nirav Modi was last publicly seen in an Indian government group photograph of CEOs and top company executives of corporate sector with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

A week later, the CBI filed a case against him on the basis of a complaint against him and his uncle Mehul Choksi.

His brother and wife were also named as accused in the first information report.

His wife Ami, a US citizen, brother Nishal a Belgian, and uncle Choksi, Gitanjali group's promoter, had also fled the country in the first week of January.

Nirav and his uncle to allegedly cheated the state-run Punjab National Bank through fraudulent issuance of Letters of Undertakings and Foreign Letters of Credit.

The agency recently charge-sheeted both Nirav and Choksi separately in the scam. It has now approached the Interpol for a Red Corner Notice aimed at bringing Nirav Modi back for facing trial in the cases against them, the sources said.