On CBI’s request, Interpol arrest warrant against fugitive Mehul Choksi

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Dec 13, 2018 : Global police body Interpol issued a red corner notice against fugitive offender Mehul Choksi, wanted in the 13,000-crore bank fraud case, on Thursday. The CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had filed a charge sheet against him in a Mumbai court.

 

As to the NDTV reports ,the 59-year-old had left India in January for medical treatment in the US. The US authorities are now likely to trace him and inform India.

Last month, Mehul Choksi’s lawyer told the investigating agencies that he is not in a position to record his statement. "If his condition gets better" Mr Choksi may return to India, the lawyer had said.

Mr Choksi and his nephew, celebrity jeweller Nirav Modi, are being sought by multiple investigating agencies after it was revealed that the two extracted crores in loans from banks abroad on the basis of fake guarantees in the name of Punjab National Bank, India’s second largest state-owned bank.