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THE PRINT New Delhi:<\/b>\u00a0Bank fraud accused diamond businessman and proclaimed fugitive Mehul Choksi has claimed neither his company nor his associates had done anything wrong, that all charges framed against him are \u201cfake\u201d and \u201cbogus\u201d, and that he has \u201cbecome a political football\u201d.<\/p>

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\u201cSince I left India, I have been in very bad health and advised very strongly not to travel. I have always said I\u2019m eager to clear my name, because I am a very reputed person in India so far,\u201d Choksi told\u00a0Business Standard<\/i>\u00a0in an exclusive\u00a0interview<\/a>, conducted over Zoom in early December.<\/p>\n

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The Indian-born diamantaire, owner of the retail jewellery company \u2018Gitanjali Gems\u2019, has allegedly defrauded Punjab National Bank (PNB) of Rs 13,500 crore along with his nephew Nirav Modi and PNB employees. An arrest warrant was issued against him by a PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) court in March 2018, and he is accused of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust cheating, money laundering and other charges.<\/p>

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A citizen of Antigua and Barbuda, Choksi had departed India for the Caribbean island nation in January that year, prior to news of the scam breaking.<\/p>

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In May 2021, Choksi had been\u00a0arrested<\/a> by authorities in the nearby nation of Dominica, after he was reported \u201cmissing\u201d and an Interpol Yellow Notice had been issued by Antigua and Barbuda. Currently, a court in Dominica has issued a stay order on his repatriation from the country.<\/p>\n

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In the interview with\u00a0Business Standard<\/i>, Choksi has now alleged that he was the victim of kidnapping in a \u201cjoint operation\u201d conducted by the two Caribbean countries, \u201cIndian agencies\u201d and \u201ca British team of mercenaries\u201d.\u00a0\u2018Human traffickers tracking me\u2019<\/b><\/p>

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\u201cHuman traffickers were involved. There were yacht owners. There were five or six British people involved. They have been after me, tracking me for nearly eight months on this island. Since last August, they were tracking all my movements. They were staying in a bunch, exactly opposite my house,\u201d Choksi claimed.<\/p>\n

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The businessman also labelled the Enforcement Directorate\u2019s declaration of him as a \u201cfugitive economic offender\u201d as \u201cfake\u201d.<\/p>

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\u201cI am not a political person, but it has gone in a very wrong way. I\u2019ve become a political football. As a big businessman, I knew lots of politicians\u2026 And there are so many things appearing at the moment. These started immediately after they put the charges in the FIR. They were completely fabricated and wrong,\u201d Choksi added.<\/p>

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When asked further about the PNB fraud case, Choksi provided details on his company\u2019s arrangement with the PNB, stating that the bank had \u201cnot given correct information\u201d to its head office.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was enjoying Rs 7,000 crore of approved limit by a consortium of bankers. On top of that, there was an ad hoc need-based transaction limit in the form of LCs\/LoUs (Letter of Credit\/Letter of Undertaking). All jewellers bank using the instrument of LCs or LoUs. I have been doing this since 1990,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n

Gitanjali\u2019s closure \u2018India\u2019s loss\u2019<\/b><\/h3>\n

The businessman also hit out at the manner in which the allegations linked him and his company to Nirav Modi, and complained that the situation had been politicised.<\/p>\n

\u201cI even called up PNB, and told them why you have put my name in this (case). I am not a partner in this and I have left his company since 2000\u2026 Despite that, there were lots of raids on my companies. They even seized my server and lots of inventory from my company in the first FIR of Nirav Modi (sic),\u201d Choksi said, referring to a January 2018 FIR.<\/p>\n

Choksi insisted he wanted to return to India, but only when his health improved.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy health has deteriorated. I can\u2019t even see properly. I have back pain. This all added up to my normal disease. There is a problem with my brain. They\u2019ve found some hematoma here. That is why I have been sent to Antigua to cure it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Finally, Choksi called for a special task force to look into the accusations against him, referring to Gitanjali\u2019s closure as India\u2019s \u201closs\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey must look into the banks and see how many such cases have been and what kind of complacencies have been going on at banks in the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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THE PRINT New Delhi:\u00a0Bank fraud accused diamond businessman and proclaimed fugitive Mehul Choksi has claimed neither his company nor his associates had done anything wrong, that all charges framed against him are \u201cfake\u201d and \u201cbogus\u201d, and that he has \u201cbecome a political football\u201d. \u201cSince I left India, I have been in very bad health and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n\u2018Charges against me fake & bogus, I\u2019ve become political football\u2019, says fugitive Mehul Choksi - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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