PNB loan fraud case: Mehul Choksi was arrested from hospital, had filed ‘freedom request’ on health grounds

When asked about the details of Mehul Choksi’s medical conditions, his lawyer said he suffered from cancer. File | Photo credit: AP

Mehul Choksi was receiving treatment in a hospital in Belgium when Belgian authorities picked him up, his lawyer said. The Hindu Monday (April 14, 2025).

“He has requested an appeal or a request for freedom. It has been declared that the investigation can continue without the need for custody. The statement has been transferred with the argument that it is not a flight and that it suffers medical conditions.

When asked about the details of his medical conditions, Agarwal said his client suffered from cancer. “In addition, he was tortured and has faced the physical deformity of torture. He suffers from traumatic PTFD (proximal tibiofibular fracture and dislocation) because the torture that had been collected from ancient to Dominic our appeal that India had sent to the men who tortured him,” he said.

Sources close to Mr. Choksi’s family confirmed to The Hindu Which was caught from the hospital where I was supposedly receiving treatment for blood or leukemia cancer. It is likely that his lawyers are of his possibility that he receives a right trial in India. They also confirmed reports in the Belgian media that summoned Mr. Choksi’s local lawyer who was not only tortured and abused, but was also allegedly hit in 2021 in a boat from Antigua to Dominica.

Hariprasad SV, a complainant based in Bengaluru who had flown to the member of Mr. Choksi’s scam, said The Hindu That he did not have much hope of the early return of the fugitive businessman to India. “If possible, it was much more possible to do it in ancient. It is now more widespread to obtain it in Belgium. European laws are stricter for extradition, human rights. It is not very easy,” he told him, “he said. The Hindu Of Bengaluru.

“In 2011-12, I had a business deal with mehul chaksi for a franchise or guitanjali lifestyle company. I have had usured us that will be minimum guaranoreed return on investment, that there Will Be Profit Sharing On The Total Sale. Give To Be Give To Be Give To Be Give To Be Give To Be Give To Be Give To Be Give To Be Give To Be Give To Be was also 12% per year, had invested that it was a scheme of Ponzi.

Mr. Hariprasad said he did his own investigation against Mr. Choksi and had discovered that large amounts of money had diverted India’s leg abroad. “He had shown his Indian company as the creation of losses and his American company as a profit for the same amount at a time when the Indian market was booming. Who buys Diamonds Worth Crore in the United States and not in India,” Hey asked?

Hariprasad said he had written to the prime minister’s office in search of his immediate speech by investigating the alleged scam. “He had warned that, like Vijay Mallea, Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi, he will flee from the country, cheating our banks worth bills of rupees. He finally fled,” he said.