Days after Mehul Choksi, the fugitive diamond dealer wished in India for the Rs 13,000-crore Punjab Nationwide Financial institution (PNB) mortgage fraud case, was arrested in Belgium, the Congress Tuesday alleged that it was “headline” administration and requested if the individuals who misplaced cash because of the fraud are going to get it again.
Choksi is dealing with legal proceedings by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate (ED). He was arrested in Belgium on the request of those central companies. He had taken the citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda and fled India simply earlier than an FIR was registered within the PNB rip-off.
Reacting to Choksi’s arrest in Belgium, senior Congress chief and spokesperson Supriya Shrinate stated, “I keep in mind precisely 4 years again; we had despatched a personal jet to Dominica to get Mehul bhai again as Mr Modi refers to him as Mehul bhai. We had spent about Rs 44 crore. He didn’t come again.” She was referring to a failed try and carry Choksi to India from Dominica in 2021, when a personal jet from India carrying CBI and Ministry of Exterior Affairs officers landed in Roseau to take him.
She alleged that the Narendra Modi authorities has didn’t get monetary fugitives extradited. “The truth is that whether or not it’s Mehul Choksi, or Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya, or Vinay Mittal, or anyone. None of those folks have come again, and there are 33 monetary fugitives who’ve fled this nation from underneath Mr Modi’s nostril,” Shrinate stated.
“You’ve got a headline right this moment, however what’s it leading to? Are the frequent man of this nation, whose cash was swindled by these folks, going to get a single penny again? Till and until they don’t carry these fugitives again and so they face the regulation of this land. That is all hogwash,” she added.
“What is that this going to end in? They swindled virtually Rs 15,000-20,000 crore of PNB. Has the financial institution received its a reimbursement is the large query,” she stated.
The CBI first named Choksi and his companies, together with Gitanjali Gems, in 2018, primarily based on a grievance acquired by PNB for the alleged issuance of fraudulent letters of enterprise of their favour, inflicting losses to the financial institution. The same case was additionally filed in opposition to Choksi’s nephew Nirav Modi, alleging that they each colluded with some staffers of PNB to perpetrate the multi-crore fraud.