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Article: Ketan Somaia, NRI businessman arrested.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- August 31, 2003
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London, Aug 31 (PTI) Ketan Somaia, a Non-Resident Indian entrepreneur being investigated by the Hertfordshire police here for allegedly defrauding a German-based businessman of 2.2 million pounds, has been arrested in Kenya as he was trying to board a British Airways flight to London, a media report said Sunday.
Somaia, a former sponsor of the Miss World competition through his Dolphin hotels, banking and motor trading group, now faces two separate trials in Nairobi, The Sunday Mail, stated.
His surprise arrest followed a request for his extradition from Tanzania where he had been accused of defrauding a businessman of 150,000 pounds. Tanzania had just ...