After moving to India in 1989, and training in all aspects of the diamond trading business,
he founded Firestar in 1999(Formerly known as Firestone), a diamond sourcing and trading company.
According to the ED, the $ 50 million(Rs 341 cr)
transferred to Lili Mountain was brought back to Firestar International Pvt Ltd in the form of foreign direct investment(FDI)
through a web of offshore firms.
The ED has said that $ 4.97 million(Rs 34 crore)
was directly diverted to two of Modi's firms in the US- Firestar Diamond Inc and A Jaffe Inc,
which have both filed for bankruptcy in a US court- and $ 50 million(Rs 341 crore) was given to Deepak Modi.