Fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi with wife Preeti Choksi in Antwerp, Belgium, Belgian citizens, living with a report Associates Times Said. The news website reported that Indian authorities have approached their Belgian counterparts to start the extradition process of Shri Choksi in India.
The wanted person for a person wanted for the Punjab National Bank (PNB) by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for Rs 13,850 crore was to live in the nation of Caribbean and Barbuda.
However, Dimmetair of Gujarat left Antigua and Barbuda for medical treatment, although he remained a citizen of the island nation, its Foreign Minister EP Chet Green told news agency ANI on 19 March.
The 65 -year -old Mr. Choksi is living in Belgium on a “F Residency Card”, which he got on November 15, 2023, he was helped by Belgium’s national wife.
Using this card, Belgium may legally have a third country’s national living, under certain conditions, or join with his spouse.
The fugitive businessman allegedly used misleading and fabricated papers to apply for residence in Belgium and oppose extradition in India, the Associates Times.
Mr. Choksi has not given his Indian citizenship. It is estimated that if the temporary Belgium residence converts to a permanent residence, it can give Sri Choksi freedom to travel to countries in Europe, making it difficult for India to tighten the extradition trap around it.
Reports also show that Mr. Choksi plans to go to Switzerland for treatment at a cancer hospital, possibly the Hirslandan Clinic RU. He is looking to invite humanitarian grounds because he should not be sent back to India.
Mr. Choksi fled to India in January 2018 after the PNB fraud case surfaced. In May 2024, he told a special court in Mumbai that he is not “able to return to India due to” (my) control beyond the reasons, and hence it cannot be called a “fugitive economic criminal”.
This to declare an application by the ED to the Special Court to declare it a fugitive economic offender to develop his summons, and to seize his properties.
He went missing from Antigua in May 2021, speculating by the Government of India – an absurd claim proved to be wrong that he proved wrong after being found on another Caribbean Island Rashtra – Dominica.
In December 2024, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitarman told Parliament that assets worth Rs 22,280 crore were restored or sold to pay the loans of wanted persons such as Mr. Choksi.
His nephew Nirav Modi, who collided with India to avoid arrest in the PNB fraud case, has been entangled in a legal battle in Britain against his extradition in India.
