DODGY DEALER

Nirav Modi, who became famous following the sale of a necklace at Christie’s Hong Kong in 2010, has been featured in one of the episodes from Netflix’s new documentary Bad Boy Billionaires: India. The series focuses on the corruption and money laundering scandals of several Indian billionaires and Modi is one of them. The pearshaped Golconda diamondset necklace went under the hammer for HK$27.5 million, earning Modi the nickname “Diamond King”. He was later arrested in London and, at the time of writing, is fighting an extradition case. When asked in 2016 during a Tatler interview how he felt being called “India’s youngest billionaire”, Modi replied: “I just want to make beautiful jewellery; everything else is secondary.”