The Enforcement Directorate(ED) has informed a special court that family members helped Nirav Modi concealing the alleged laundering of money and destroying evidence, reported The Indian Express.

The ED said that Nirav Modi was aided by his brother Nehal Modi “knowingly and intentionally” to conceal money laundering and destroying evidence. “After the crisis (the Rs 13,500-crore scam at Punjab National Bank), Nehal Modi, brother of Mr Nirav Modi destroyed all the cell phones of all dummy directors in Dubai and Hong Kong and arranged for their tickets to Cairo — a safe haven,” ED said in its complaint to the court, the report said.

In addition, Nirav Modi's sister Purvi Modi was an ‘active participant in the generation of proceeds of crime,’ said the report, adding that his father Deepak Modi 'assisted the activity of money laundering knowingly'.

The ED said that Deepak Modi was a beneficiary of Link High International and Twin Square companies, to which funds were transferred from the dummy firms set by Nirav Modi, said the daily.

The directorate has also identified 17 directors of the dummy companies set up by Modi to allegedly rotate the funds, according to the report.