mehul choksi

The government is actively engaged with Dominica to seek early deportation of fugitive diamond merchant mehul choksi and his handover to India, the ministry of external affairs said on Thursday.

The ministry of external affairs on Thursday said that the government is committed to bring all fugitives back to the country and will continue to make all efforts till mehul choksi is deported. Meanwhile, a Dominica magistrate on Wednesday denied bail to Choksi and ordered him to be presented to face charges of illegal entry into the country for which he was arrested on May 23.

In his recent complaint to the Antiguan Police Commissioner, fugitive diamantaire mehul choksi claimed that he was attacked by eight to 10 men while he was on his way to meet a woman named Barbara Jabarica, with whom he claimed to have 'friendly terms'.

Amidst reports of mehul choksi's brother paying Dominican authorities to spread abduction narrative, their lawyer Vijay Aggarwal told news agency ANI on Tuesday termed them to be untrue. Vijay clarified that Choksi's brother Chetan Chinu Bhai Choksi arrived in Dominica only to check on his brothers' medical condition.

Fugitive diamantaire and PNB scam accused mehul choksi's extradition to India might be caught up in legal tangles. A Caribbean court has put a stay on his repatriation from Dominica. Choksi went missing in Antigua last week, amid speculations that he could have fled to Cuba. Sources said that Choksi may have been apprehended on Tuesday night in Dominica following the Interpol alert.

The high court in Dominica, hearing the Habeas Corpus petition by the lawyers of mehul choksi, adjourned the petition indefinitely on Thursday. Judge Birnine Stephenson, who is hearing the case of the absconding Indian jeweller’s entry into the Caribbean island from neighbouring Dominica and Barbuda, said the two parties should come to an agreement on the language to be used in the case filed to prevent his repatriation from Dominica.

Diamantaire mehul choksi was produced before a magistrate in Dominica to answer charges of his illegal entry into the Caribbean island nation following a high court order on Wednesday, local media reported.

Dominica has dropped charged of illegal entry against fugitive Indian diamantaire mehul choksi. Choksi is wanted in India in the over Rs 13,000 crore PNB scam. In a letter addressed to the magistrate of court district 'E,' dated May 17, the country's director of public prosecutions writes that the proceedings against Choksi for illegally entering the country on May 24, 2021 are discontinued.

Fugitive mehul choksi, wanted in connection with the Rs 13,000 crore PNB bank loan fraud, has been arrested in Belgium following an extradition request from India. Indian authorities are actively pursuing his extradition, presenting arrest warrants to Belgian officials. Choksi's lawyer is contesting the extradition, citing concerns about human rights and prison conditions in India, claiming the case is politically motivated.

Fugitive diamond jeweller mehul choksi, wanted in connection with the Rs 13,000 crore PNB loan fraud, has been detained in Belgium and is set to be extradited to India. Choksi, along with Nirav Modi, is accused of defrauding Punjab National Bank. His son, Rohan Choksi, has also been implicated, with involvement in his father's U.S.

The ED will file an application under the recently-promulgated Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance, which empowers it to confiscate "all linked assets" of an absconding loan defaulter, the sources said adding that a similar plea will be made against diamantaire Nirav Modi.

Antigua and Barbuda prefers that fugitive diamantaire mehul choksi be repatriated from Dominica to India directly, the Cabinet of the Caribbean island country decided in a meeting, local media reported.

The Income Tax (I-T) department on Friday confiscated fugitive diamantaire mehul choksi's properties in Nashik, news agency ANI reported. The tax department has taken over 9 acres of agricultural land in Nashik that belongs to Choksi. He is accused in the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, along with nephew Nirav Modi.

The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) on Friday, after taking note of submissions made in the mehul choksi's hebeas corpus petition, restrained Dominican authorities from removing the fugitive diamantaire from the Commonwealth of Dominica until further hearing in the matter.

mehul choksi's lawyer Sanjay Abbot moved the application before special CBI court judge J C Jagdale. In the application, he claimed that he cannot travel because of his medical condition. The diamond merchant claimed he was unable to disclose his current location owing to threats to his life.

Bombay high court has in an interim order restrained special trial court in Mumbai from passing any final order in a plea by Enforcement Directorate (ED) to declare mehul choksi, an accused in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) multi-crore scam case, a fugitive economic offender (FEO) till February 3 while adjourning a petition by the accused diamantaire.

Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Tuesday said that he was not aware of any evidence that fugitive diamantaire mehul choksi was abducted and taken to Dominica. "I am not aware that the sea vessel would have breached the security of the state, my understanding is that the vessel ostensibly that was utilised to abduct MC came here legally," Browne said.

The CBI has filed a fresh case against absconding diamantaire mehul choksi, wanted along with his nephew Nirav Modi in a loan fraud case of Rs 13,500 crore, for allegedly inflating the value of diamonds and jewellery pledged to get Rs 25 crore loan from IFCI, officials said on Monday.

The Dominica high court has adjourned the bail hearing of fugitive diamond merchant mehul choksi till June 11, local media reports stated. Choksi had approached the high court after the magistrate rejected his bail petition.The bail hearing took place before high court judge Wynante Adrien-Roberts through video-conferencing on the plea of Choksi's local legal team.

The fugitive’s house in Mumbai’s plush Walkeshwar has had an array of correspondence over the months -- BEST, MTNL, ED, an alphabet soup of letter writers. Phone bills have been showing up periodically, with small sums: Rs 211, Rs 224. BEST seems the most hard done. As of May 27, they were owed Rs 33,170

Interpol had put on hold the red corner notice request against mehul choksi following a representation by the fugitive during which he had alleged that the cases against him were a result of a political conspiracy.

Diamantaire mehul choksi has landed in Antigua and Barbuda, where he has been staying since 2018 after leaving India, after 51 days of custody in neighbouring Dominica for illegal entry which his lawyers claim was a kidnapping plan, local media reported.

In a detailed e-mail reply to the CBI's notice seeking his appearance, Choksi said he was not in a position to travel as his passport has been suspended by the authorities and he was undergoing medical treatment.

mehul choksi, a key accused in the $2 billion Punjab National Bank fraud, claimed on Friday that his company Gitanjali Gems has "trade receivables" of over Rs 8,000 crore, enough to repay his loans. The absconding diamantaire made the claim in a plea filed before the special judge for Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases, V C Barde.