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Mehul choksi: Mehul Choksi, the main accused in the Rs 13,800 crore PNB fraud case, has been arrested in Belgium and now the preparation to bring him to India has intensified. After escaping from India in 2018, he was now arrested on the request of Indian agencies while escaping several times. Choksi, 65, was allegedly detained from a Belgian hospital, where he was admitted for treatment since last year.
Red notice removed against Mehul
Investigation agencies, including the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), have stepped up the preparations to bring back the Interpol Red notice against him. The red notice is issued to the person who is wanted by a member country for a serious crime and other member countries are urged to help him to detect or arrest.
Mehul’s lawyer confirmed arrest
The government of Belgium had already confirmed Choksi to stay there. Especially, after the news of Choksi’s sudden disappearance from Antigua in May 2021, the government there took further seriously.
Talking about his arrest, Mehul’s lawyer Vijay Aggarwal said, “Currently, he is in jail and there is a process to file an appeal, not to file an application for bail (Belgium). During that appeal, it is requested not to keep him in custody and allow him to defend himself and oppose extradition request. “
In this way, it was fake
Choksi, the owner of the Gitanjali Group, is the main accused in the case of cheating India’s second largest public sector bank PNB in India through fake letters of undertaking (LOU) and foreign credit letters (FLC) allegedly in connivance with bank officials. Nirav Modi, the nephew of Choksi, another accused in the case, is currently lodged in a London jail.
As part of the extradition request, Indian authorities shared at least two non-bailable warrants with their Belgian counterparts, issued by a special court in Mumbai in 2018 and 2021. However, this is not the first time Mehul has been detained, but earlier also Mehul was detained for illegal entry into Dominica. During that time a CBI team also tried to bring him to India, but later the court allowed him to return to Antigua for medical treatment.
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