In an application to the British authorities, the CBI had alleged that all of Pinto's property in UK was acquired with swindled money, the sources said.

Stating that Pinto's name was not included in the charge-sheet submitted last year, they said formalities for its inclusion in the supplementary charge-sheet would be completed soon.

CBI has already completed the process of seeking his extradition and was awaiting a nod from British authorities to send a team and bring him to India for trial, they said. The sources said prospects of Pinto's extradition had brightened since he had not filed any appeal in the London HC challenging the magistrate's order for his extradition. The magistrate's order said this April that the accused could appeal before the high courtwithin 15 days and if no appeal is filed within the stipulated period, he would be immediately extradited to India.

Pinto would be the third accused in the multi-crore scam to be extradited to India after Tuncay Alankus and Cihan Karanci, senior officials of the Turkish firm Karsan Ltd, which was supposed to supply two lakh metric tonnes of urea to the public sector undertaking National Fertilisers Ltd. Karanci and Alankus were extradited to India on October 3, last. The duo have since been in judicial custody. Pinto was arrested in London in December last following a warrant issued by the CBI special judge here.