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Just eleven days after Mick Brown and Robert Mendick exposed the billionaire fugitive’s hideout, Nirav Modi stands in a dock in Westminster Magistrates’ Court. He’s here to discover whether the law is about to catch up with him. Little does he know just how long the battle is going to take. Seven years on, the saga is still ongoing. Mick and Rob pick up where they left off and reveal new information about Nirav’s life on the run: from lavish London living and private chefs, to clandestine meetings with fellow fugitive Vijay Mallya. But now after years behind bars and with the prospect of extradition looming, is the final chapter in the Diamond King’s story about to be written?  Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Reporters and writers - Mick Brown and Robert Mendick Producer, writer and sound design - Anna Staufenberg  Executive producer and story editor - Cara McGoogan Mixing - Elliot Lampitt  Original theme music - Sandeep Thulasidas Additional music - John Cadigan  Commissioning editor - Louisa Wells  Archive supplied by the BBC and Getty Highlights: A Fugitive's HideoutSeven years on, the saga is still ongoing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Diamond King has vanished, but the hunt is only just beginning. As the Indian authorities seize Nirav Modi’s bank accounts, jewellery, cars, art and dozens of properties, the man himself is nowhere to be found.  Rumours swirl that he could be in New York, Hong Kong, Cyprus or Antwerp. But then Mick Brown and Robert Mendick learn Nirav isn’t in a far-flung corner of the globe. After Mick writes about the diamantaire’s dramatic fall for the Telegraph Luxury magazine, he receives an intriguing email from a confidential source: the billionaire fugitive is far closer than we thought.  Here’s the inside story of how Mick and Rob achieved what the British police and Indian authorities failed to do: capture the Diamond King. Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Reporters and writers - Mick Brown and Robert Mendick Producer, writer and sound design - Anna Staufenberg  Executive producer and story editor - Cara McGoogan Mixing - Elliot Lampitt  Original theme music - Sandeep Thulasidas Additional music - John Cadigan  Commissioning editor - Louisa Wells  Archive supplied by the BBC and Getty Highlights: Catch Me If You CanHow Rob and Mick found Nirav Modi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nirav Modi’s diamond empire has reached unimaginable heights,. He’s got the backing of some of the world’s most powerful people, and his designs are worn by Hollywood and Bollywood’s biggest names. But when a bank manager at a small branch in Mumbai retires, his replacement notices something that doesn’t add up. Hidden behind years of paperwork and financial transactions lies the answer to the question many have asked: where was Nirav getting the money? Within days, the illusion crumbles. All hell breaks loose.  As investigators in India and the US close in on what they allege is a billion-pound fraud, Nirav’s diamond empire collapses. Stores are shut down, employees lose their jobs and the arrests begin. But there’s one person nobody can find: Nirav Modi. The diamond king has vanished. He's now one of the world’s most wanted men.  Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Reporters and writers - Mick Brown and Robert Mendick Producer, writer and sound design - Anna Staufenberg  Executive producer and story editor - Cara McGoogan Mixing - Elliot Lampitt  Original theme music - Sandeep Thulasidas Additional music - John Cadigan  Commissioning editor - Louisa Wells  Archive supplied by the BBC and Getty Highlights: The Missing BillionsWhere was Nirav Modi getting the money? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2010, a fresh-faced newcomer launches himself into the luxury world of high-end jewellery. His name is Nirav Modi, an ambitious diamantaire who dropped out of business school to make jewellery for the world’s elite. His vision is to fuse East with West; to bring something of India’s tradition into western designs.  Within a few years, he’s risen to the top. He opens stores on the most prestigious shopping streets in New York, London, Macau and Hong Kong. But he doesn’t stop there; he wants his name in bright lights around the world. For now, it seems Nirav’s rise is unstoppable. But there’s something about him that leaves those around him feeling unsettled; and then, the questions start – where are the billions coming from?  Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Reporters and writers - Mick Brown and Robert Mendick Producer, writer and sound design - Anna Staufenberg  Executive producer and story editor - Cara McGoogan Mixing - Elliot Lampitt  Original theme music - Sandeep Thulasidas Additional music - John Cadigan  Commissioning editor - Louisa Wells  Archive supplied by the BBC and Getty  Highlights: All That GlittersThe Rise of Nirav Modi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The rise and fall of Nirav Modi, accused of India’s biggest ever bank fraud – and how The Telegraph caught him.  Nirav Modi was a billionaire diamond tycoon whose jewellery was worn by Kate Winslet and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. But in 2018 he was charged with masterminding a £1.3 billion fraud. Now one of the world’s most wanted men, he disappeared. Where was he hiding and would he face justice? The Diamond King: Coming Friday 10th July. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John’s investigation keeps coming up against brick walls - and five decades on, so does Katherine’s. When Kenya admits to a cover-up it begins to make sense. But it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Who exactly were the authorities covering up for, and was the British government involved? As her reporting comes to a close, Katherine celebrates a young woman whose life was cut short; and at the eleventh hour, a chat with a Mi6 agent sheds new light on Julie’s case. Archive in this episode: ITN via Getty, The Telegraph Get in touch: [email protected] Watch the accompanying film to this series: https://youtu.be/T8VhCxyx3O0 Sign up to the Telegraph: https://bit.ly/murdermasaimara Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A whistleblower comes forward claiming to have witnessed everything and pointing the finger at someone nobody expected: Jonathan Moi, the president’s son. It's almost too far-fetched to be believed, but his name starts coming up again, and again. An incriminating scrap of paper. A police statement locked up for decades. Rumours of a romance. Katherine investigates the evidence.   Archive in this episode: ITN via Getty, Channels Television, Citizen TV Kenya, NTV Kenya, KTN News Kenya Get in touch: [email protected] Watch the accompanying film to this series: https://youtu.be/T8VhCxyx3O0 Sign up to the Telegraph: https://bit.ly/murdermasaimara Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Julie’s murderer still at large, attention focuses on the last man to see her alive and the head ranger of the Masai Mara game reserve. Reporter Katherine goes to Kenya herself to track them down and see if their recollections can help unlock the decades-old cold case. A previously unknown tip from a Masai elder emerges. Could this be the breakthrough the Ward family has been waiting for?  Archive in this episode: ITN via Getty, The Telegraph Get in touch: [email protected] Watch the accompanying film to this series: https://youtu.be/T8VhCxyx3O0 Sign up to the Telegraph: https://bit.ly/murdermasaimara Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The authorities insist Julie killed herself, but father John refuses to believe it. An altered post-mortem prompts him to take matters into his own hands. When a team of British cops is dispatched to Kenya, hopes are high that they can solve the riddle of Julie’s murder/death. How did her jeep end up nine miles from her body? What are those strange marks on her leg? And who forged her signature in a nearby guesthouse? Archive in this episode: NPR, ITN via Getty, The Telegraph Get in touch: [email protected] Watch the accompanying film to this series: https://youtu.be/T8VhCxyx3O0 Sign up to the Telegraph: https://bit.ly/murdermasaimara Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On a cold February day in 1988, Julie Ward sets off on the journey of a lifetime from England, through Africa. She establishes a new life in the bustling capital of Kenya but mysteriously disappears while on safari - leaving her plane ticket back to England untouched on a table in her Nairobi home. When her father John flies to Kenya to track her down, he finds a gruesome crime scene in the Masai Mara that throws up more questions than it answers.  Archive in this episode: NPR, ITN via Getty, The Telegraph Get in touch: [email protected] Watch the accompanying film to this series: https://youtu.be/T8VhCxyx3O0 Sign up to the Telegraph: https://bit.ly/murdermasaimara Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Julie Ward vanishes mysteriously in the Masai Mara in 1988, her father begins a hunt for answers that stretches from a safari lodge in Kenya to MI6’s headquarters in London. The case was never solved. Nearly four decades on, The Telegraph Deputy Investigations Editor Katherine Rushton pours over classified documents, interviews the people tangled in the case, and travels to Kenya to try to understand who tried to stop her murder being solved. What happened to Julie Ward, why did the Kenyan authorities try to cover it up, and why were MI6 agents involved? Murder in the Masai Mara: Coming Friday 28th November. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The IRA creates a new unit to root out informers – or touts – and kill them. A man known as Scap quickly rises to the top of this ‘Nutting Squad’ and builds up a fearsome reputation for cruelty. But he is hiding a dark secret – and the implications of the truth being exposed are enormous. Archive in this episode: Carlton TV, ITV, BBC, Getty, ITN, RTÉ Bed of Lies, Series 3: A taxi driver is shot dead in front of his children. A high-security room goes up in flames. Then terrorists are unmasked as spies. And behind it all, a shadowy unit of the British Army, who ran the notorious agent Stakeknife. Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan investigates the biggest cover-up of the Northern Ireland Troubles and asks: is the British state getting away with murder? Follow the Bed of Lies feed: https://linktr.ee/bed_of_lies Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Get in touch: [email protected] and on social media @cjmcgoogan  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facing life in prison for murder, a key loyalist makes a surprising confession: he is Agent 6137. When he targeted people for the UDA to assassinate, he was also working for the British. The daughter of one of his victims hunts for the truth about his life as a spy – but as she and Cara dig deeper, they find documents are missing and proof is hard to pin down.  Archive in this episode: Getty, ITN, BBC Bed of Lies, Series 3: A taxi driver is shot dead in front of his children. A high-security room goes up in flames. Then terrorists are unmasked as spies. And behind it all, a shadowy unit of the British Army, who ran the notorious agent Stakeknife. Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan investigates the biggest cover-up of the Northern Ireland Troubles and asks: is the British state getting away with murder? Follow the Bed of Lies feed: https://linktr.ee/bed_of_lies Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Get in touch: [email protected] and on social media @cjmcgoogan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Top detectives race to untangle a web of lies behind the murders. But just as they’re about to arrest a key loyalist suspect, their secure office containing top-secret evidence goes up in flames. They hear whispers that a clandestine unit of the British army could be behind the sabotage. All to protect one man – a man Cara reveals is a vicious fighter with a shadowy past.  Bed of Lies, Series 3: A taxi driver is shot dead in front of his children. A high-security room goes up in flames. Then terrorists are unmasked as spies. And behind it all, a shadowy unit of the British Army, who ran the notorious agent Stakeknife. Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan investigates the biggest cover-up of the Northern Ireland Troubles and asks: is the British state getting away with murder? Follow the Bed of Lies feed: https://linktr.ee/bed_of_lies Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Get in touch: [email protected] and on social media @cjmcgoogan  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three innocent Catholic men are shot dead in front of their families by a brutal Protestant paramilitary group hunting the IRA. Even in the dark days of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the murders shock the nation. Then it emerges the gunmen aren’t working alone. Cara McGoogan is determined to find out who else is involved and how deep the collusion goes. Archive in this episode: Getty, ITN, ITV, RTÉ, Fremantle, Thames TV, Npatou Bed of Lies, Series 3: A taxi driver is shot dead in front of his children. A high-security room goes up in flames. Then terrorists are unmasked as spies. And behind it all, a shadowy unit of the British Army, who ran the notorious agent Stakeknife. Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan investigates the biggest cover-up of the Northern Ireland Troubles and asks: is the British state getting away with murder? Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor Get in touch: [email protected] and on social media @cjmcgoogan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.