Following requests from CBI and ED, Interpol had issued a Red Notice against Mehul Choksi in 2018
The fugitive diamond merchant on Wednesday lost his appeal against extradition to India at the High Court in London.
In December 2021, the parliament was informed that 33 accused in bank fraud cases registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) fled the country in the last five years.
Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, who defaulted on loans worth Rs 7,848 crore, tops the list of India's biggest wilful defaulters
Nirav Modi, who remains behind bars in the Wandsworth prison in London, was earlier granted permission to appeal against the February ruling that ruled in favour of his extradition to India.
The judge noted that the arguments made under both grounds overlap in this case as they both rely principally on the appellant, Nirav Modi's mental ill health.
The Gujarati diamond magnate had fled India in 2018 before his involvement in the alleged fraud against PNB became public
Nirav Modi's lawyer said Covid-19 is rising in Maharashtra and is affecting Arthur Road jail, arguing the healthcare system is 'near collapse.'
Choksi, 62, was given bail by Dominica High Court to travel back to Antigua for seeking medical help from a neurologist based there.
The 62-year-old is wanted in India in connection with the ₹ 13,500-crore Punjab National Bank fraud case.
Choksi had alleged that his arrest in Dominica for illegal entry was 'dictated' by representatives of the Indian government.
The case was filed against the immigration minister of the Caribbean nation, its police chief and the investigating officer of the case.
Skerrit said his government will allow the court to carry out its process regarding Choksi and gave the assurance that his rights and obligations will be...
Nirav Modi is presently lodged in a UK jail and has lost his extradition plea to India in connection with the alleged $2-billion loan fraud at the Brady House...
Polak has also approached the Scotland Yard seeking a probe into alleged kidnapping of Choksi.
Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi had fled India in the first week of January, 2018, weeks before the scam in the PNB rocked the Indian banking industry.
Choksi, wanted in Rs 13,500 crore bank fraud case in India, had mysteriously gone missing on May 23 from Antigua and Barbuda where he has been staying since...
Modi is facing probe by two central agencies here in India for bank fraud to the tune of over Rs 13,500 crore.
However, his lawyer said Choksi would continue to remain in hospital as his medical condition ‘deteriorated’.
Choksi allegedly made his employees directors of the firms based in Hong Kong, and was controlling them.
The PNB officials at the bank's Brady House branch in Mumbai issued 165 letters of undertaking (LoUs) and 58 foreign letters of credit (FLCs) during...
Mehul Choksi was living in Antigua and Barbuda since 2018, after he escaped from India in the first week of January that year, weeks before the scam was...
Gurjit Bhandal, who is into property business in Midlands, United Kingdom, has claimed that he had gone sailing in the Caribbeans with his friend Gurmit Singh...
We have no issues in so far as the matter relates to Antigua and or India, said prime minister Rooseveltt Skerrit.
The family of Choksi had claimed that he was in Antigua till 5 pm on May 23 which makes it impossible to cover a 120-mile distance in four to five hours, which...
