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According to the reports, Chaksi was arrested in Belgium after he was found living in the country last month. The fugitive businessman plans to appeal his judgment while the Indian authorities seek his extradition.
The fugitive Indian businessman Mehul Choksi. (File photo/AFP)
The fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, who has been fleeing from the Indian authorities in relation to a PNB fraud fraud of RS 13,500 million rupees, has been arrested in Belgium when New Delhi presses for his extradition.
According to the reports, the diamond jeweler that Fugita lived in Antwerp with his wife Priti Choksi, after receiving the residence, the residence card F, in Belgium 2023. He was a hero on April 12 from a hospital where he has received treatment. The sources of the Indian government indicated on Monday that a team of several agencies will visit the country before the bail audience next week.
Chaksi had previously established an old and Barbuda and also acquired ancient citizenship in 2017. He was arrested in Dominica by illegal entrance while with a rumored girlfriend, and his legal team said he was kidnapped. It was possible to return to Antigua.
MEHUL kidnapping accusations
In an audio clip in 2021, Chaksi alleged that he was kidnapped by Indian agencies, that Hefs “was permanently cycuted.” He said: “I am back at home, but this torture has left permanent scars in my psychology and my physio instead of permanent scars in my soul. I could be imagining after closing all my businesses and taking all my properties, attempted kidnapping.”
His lawyer said he was kidnapped and tortured while he was in Dominican custody by illegal entrance, saying that the fugitive businessman was kidnapped in Antigua and took him to Dominica in a boat. He returned to Antigua after spending 51 days in Dominican custody.
Chaksi then said he was afraid of being kidnapped and tasks to Guyana, who has a strong Indian presence. “I am currently limited to the limits of my house in ancient, my bad health is not, no no, no, no no, it is not, you can’t not move any other place, and the traumatizing experience I suffered at the hands of my Indian captors led to an irreversible relegation,” he told the news agency. ANI in November 2021.
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Chaksi ‘Honeytrap’ claims
Following the alleged kidnapping, the name of a mysterious woman also emerged. Choksi’s wife, Priti, who is also appointed as accused of the Law Execution Directorate, claimed that they with Barbara Jabarika, a Hungarian citizen, in 2020 and claimed that she was part of a Honeytap plan.
Priti said her husband went to dinner on the night of May 23, but never returned. She said Barbara had come to Antigua in August 2020 and “had entered our other house on the island and was friends with the chef there.”
According to the reports, Barbara and Choksi became friends and invited him to an apartment to meet her the day he disappeared. Upon arriving, a group of people “kidnapped” Choksi and made him Dominica, where he was a hero. However, Barbara shattered the thesis accusations and said that she was Choksi’s “girlfriend.” He also said he had his own income and businesses. “I don’t need your cash, support, hotels, false jewelry or nothing,” said the appointment of NDTV.
He also said that Chaksi appeared as Raj when he first took place in August 2020. “Raj (Mehul Choksi) was the one who approached me, asked me for my number and ‘he bored me’, totally the opposite of what his Wis said. He also said that Choksi had told him that they could meet in Cuba, suggested that he moved there.
However, Choksi said Barbara did not help him while assaulting him and forced him to a boat to be ancient and Barbuda tasks to Dominica. He added that Barbara’s actions suggested that she actively participate throughout the scheme.
Priti Choksi also refuted Barbara’s claims that he knew Choksi as Raj. “How is it possible that despite all the media and the public fury that surround this case, that this lady who has been an Instagram account with thoughts or followers were in the dark about all this, and did not speak in defense of her friend?” She said.
Chaksi and his nephew, Nirav Modi, have been accused of defrauding the PNB or around RS 13,000 million rupees, one of the greatest scams in the history of Indian banking. The government of India was declared by a fugitive economic criminal (ugly) and a CBI investigation against him is ongoing.
