{"id":23572,"date":"2019-01-22T10:25:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=23572"},"modified":"2019-01-22T22:06:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T02:06:26","slug":"mehul-choksi-is-no-longer-a-citizen-of-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/mehul-choksi-is-no-longer-a-citizen-of-indian\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehul Choksi is no longer a citizen of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-855207775\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-3885599829\" class=\"antig-before-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/medicalbenefitsscheme\" 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sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Posing fresh complications for India, absconder diamantaire&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=mehul\" target=\"_blank\">Mehul&nbsp;<\/a>Choksi, one of the prime accused in the US$ 2 billion &nbsp;Punjab National&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=bank\" target=\"_blank\">Bank&nbsp;<\/a>(PNB) fraud, has surrendered his Indian citizenship in <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">favour<\/g> of&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=antigua\" target=\"_blank\">Antigua&nbsp;<\/a>&amp;&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=barbuda+isles\" target=\"_blank\">Barbuda Isles&nbsp;<\/a>in the West Indies, official sources said on Monday.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2889515018\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"ABLP_Red-&#038;-Reddy_Web_1000x250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Choksi, 59, acquired his new citizenship in 2018 and then subsequently deposited his cancelled Indian Passport No. Z3396732 and a mandatory fee of $177 for the other formalities, with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=indian+high+commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indian High Commission&nbsp;<\/a>in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=indian+high+commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indian High Commission&nbsp;<\/a>in Cooperative Republic of Guyana is also accredited to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=antigua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Antigua&nbsp;<\/a>&amp; Barbuda and St. Kitts &amp; Nevis.<\/p><div id=\"antig-1360320768\" class=\"antig-content_4 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-2759303928\" class=\"antig-content_12 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"ABLP_Red-&#038;-Reddy_Web_1000x250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Contacted by IANS in Mumbai, Choksi&#8217;s lawyers declined to comment saying they were no longer in touch with him.<\/p><div id=\"antig-3969020525\" class=\"antig-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiguabarbudaculinarymonth.com\/\" aria-label=\"culinary\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:132\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:450\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:675\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:842\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1124\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources in the national capital said that despite the latest developments, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=indian+government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indian government&nbsp;<\/a>will continue its pursuit of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=choksi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Choksi&nbsp;<\/a>with the government of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=antigua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Antigua&nbsp;<\/a>&amp; Barbuda through diplomatic and legal channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choksi, along with his 47-year-old nephew Nirav Modi, are among many others charged with conniving with certain&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bank&nbsp;<\/a>officials to dupe the PNB of over Rs 13,500 crore by issuing fake Letters of Undertakings (LoUs) to their group companies through the PNB&#8217;s flagship Brady House Branch.<\/p><div id=\"antig-31479119\" class=\"antig-content_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"IMG_0783\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 500w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:150\/h:150\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The development could present new hassles for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=central+bureau+of+investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Central Bureau of Investigation&nbsp;<\/a>(CBI) which was hoping for his extradition along with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=nirav+modi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nirav Modi&nbsp;<\/a>and other relatives who are believed to be holed up in different countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weeks before, the PNB first admitted to the massive scam on February 14, 2018,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=choksi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Choksi&nbsp;<\/a>and Modi besides many of their family members had surreptitiously fled the country, virtually catching the investigating agencies napping.<\/p><div id=\"antig-3412443653\" class=\"antig-content_3 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"1000436969\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:240\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 240w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:819\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 819w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the fraud exploded in the public domain, the PNB had already lodged complaints with the Enforcement Director (ED) and the CBI in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=mumbai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mumbai&nbsp;<\/a>seeking their help.<\/p><div id=\"antig-4266423216\" class=\"antig-content_6 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the PNB&#8217;s admission, a total of more than 1,200 LoUs were issued to Choksi, Modi and their relatives and group companies with the CBI chargesheet in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=mumbai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mumbai&nbsp;<\/a>naming them plus other employees, top PNB officials and executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ED and CBI cracked the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=whip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whip&nbsp;<\/a>with raids on the homes, offices, factories of all the accused in Maharashtra,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=gujarat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gujarat&nbsp;<\/a>and other locations in the country, issued Look Out Notices,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=interpol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">InterPol&nbsp;<\/a>Red Corner Notices, suspended the passports of many of the accused, attached their residential business properties, and initiated other measures to pressurise and make them return to face the Indian laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the latest initiative, last weekend, the government dismissed two PNB&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive&nbsp;<\/a>directors&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=k+v+brahmaji+rao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">K.V. Brahmaji Rao&nbsp;<\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=sanjiv+sharan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sanjiv Sharan&nbsp;<\/a>for alleged failure to exercise proper control over the bank&#8217;s functioning, procedural lapses by ignoring Reserve&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bank&nbsp;<\/a>Of India&#8217;s advisory to link&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=society+for+worldwide+interbank+financial+telecommunication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication&nbsp;<\/a>(SWIFT) with the Core Banking Solutions (CBS) systems of the bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2018, the Centre had sacked Allahabad Bank&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=managing+director+and+ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Managing Director and CEO&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=usha+ananthasubramanian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Usha Ananthasubramanian&nbsp;<\/a>in connection with the Choksi-Modi frauds when she was serving as the latter&#8217;s (PNB&#8217;)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=md+cum+ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MD-cum-CEO.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"antig-548317106\" class=\"antig-in-comments_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/@hadeedmotorsltd\" aria-label=\"Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posing fresh complications for India, absconder diamantaire&nbsp;Mehul&nbsp;Choksi, one of the prime accused in the US$ 2 billion &nbsp;Punjab National&nbsp;Bank&nbsp;(PNB) fraud, has surrendered his Indian citizenship in favour of&nbsp;Antigua&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Barbuda Isles&nbsp;in the West Indies, official sources said on Monday. Choksi, 59, acquired his new citizenship in 2018 and then subsequently deposited his cancelled Indian Passport No. Z3396732 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mehul Choksi is no longer a citizen of India - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/mehul-choksi-is-no-longer-a-citizen-of-indian\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mehul Choksi is no longer a citizen of India\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Posing fresh complications for India, absconder diamantaire&nbsp;Mehul&nbsp;Choksi, one of the prime accused in the US$ 2 billion &nbsp;Punjab National&nbsp;Bank&nbsp;(PNB) fraud, has surrendered his Indian citizenship in favour of&nbsp;Antigua&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Barbuda Isles&nbsp;in the West Indies, official sources said on Monday. 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