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Cracking down on fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday has stepped up its efforts getting back Choksi from Antigua. MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said that the government was putting all efforts on ground to expedite Choksi’s extradition – a key accused in the alleged Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam. He also said that Nirav Modi’s hearing too is currently in progress in a London court.<\/p>

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“The case of Nirav Modi is under litigation and is heard at West Minister court in London. The call over video link hearing is scheduled today. We are putting in all our efforts in both cases (Choksi and Modi) on the ground to expedite the extradition,” he said in the MEA’s weekly briefing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Court refuses to cancel warrant<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Earlier on December 13, a Mumbai special court refused to cancel a non-bailable warrant issued against Choksi. Last week, the court had rejected a similar plea made by him, seeking cancellation of a warrant issued in a case registered by the Enforcement Directorate under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in the PNB scam. In his plea before the CBI court, Choksi claimed that he could not travel to India because of his medical condition and also because he was facing a threat to his life.<\/p>\n

Choksi to be extradited soon:\u00a0Antigua PM<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Previously in September, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne said economic fugitive Mehul Choksi is a \u2018crook\u2019 and it is just a matter of time before he will be extradited to India. He added that the country’s judiciary was probing into his case and that they were not interested in having Mehul Choksi in Antigua and Barbuda. Mehul Choksi has been in Antigua and Barbuda after he was granted citizenship of the Island nation on January 15, 2018, after he fled India.<\/p>

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Both Choksi and Nirav Modi have been absconding from India. They are the main accused of defrauding India’s second-largest state-run bank PNB to the tune of over Rs 13,000 crore. Switzerland-based Banks locked down four bank accounts of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi in connection with the PNB scam, after reliable inputs from the ED to the Swiss government. Nirav Modi is currently in custody in London after he was denied bail again. He has been declared a fugitive economic offender under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act by the special PMLA court in connection with PNB bank scam.<\/p>

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