{"id":148751,"date":"2022-03-29T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=148751"},"modified":"2022-03-29T08:10:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:10:04","slug":"why-eco-fugitives-prefer-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/why-eco-fugitives-prefer-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Why eco fugitives prefer the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW DELHI: She was among the many who had queued up on March 10 last year at an immigration counter at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, waiting to be \u201ccleared\u201d to board an international flight.<\/p>

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But as soon as the details of her passport were fed into the computer of the immigration personnel, she turned out to be a person of special interest to the Enforcement Directorate and other investigating agencies who had taken out a \u2018look out circular\u2019 against the wife of Sanjay Chandra, the jailed promoter of Unitech.<\/p>\n

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Immigration authorities were surprised that Preeti, who could not have been unaware of the LoC \u2014 directive to the personnel at all embarkation points not to let the person concerned leave the country, had booked herself on an international flight.<\/p>

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The surprise deepened further when Preeti, during questioning, revealed that she had taken up the citizenship of the Dominican Republic: something which meant that India\u2019s law-enforcement agencies would have had to struggle to get her back to India if she had got past the immigration desk.<\/p>

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The agencies are having to toil to secure the extradition of the fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi, wanted in multi-crore fraud cases, who had taken up the citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

India does not have an extradition treaty either with Antigua and Barbuda or the Dominican Republic, making it a favourite settlement zone for many of our fugitive economic offenders.<\/p>

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