How did a man wanted for India’s biggest bank scam land up on a distant Caribbean island nation—bruised, black-eyed, and bearing an incredulous tale of being a target of an alleged rendition? Since he fled India in 2018 after being wanted for defrauding the Punjab National Bank (PNB), the Mehul Choksi saga has taken some astonishing twists. None as sensational it would seem as the events of the past few days. Choksi, 62, alleged he was honey-trapped by a woman he had met on the island of Antigua, where he had been in hiding since he fled India. He was allegedly tased, beaten up, tortured by unidentified people of Indian origin, and spirited away on a yacht to Dominica, another island nation.
The diamond merchant, who was once the envy of the South Mumbai trade and carved up a multibillion-dollar global diamond empire, has his back to the wall. He is simultaneously battling the law of three countries—India, where the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) want him back to stand trial for bank fraud; Antigua, which recently stripped him of its citizenship after discovering an Interpol Red Corner Notice (RCN) against him; and Dominica, which is investigating his abduction story and his plea for deportation back to Antigua. Either ways, the proceedings over the next few days have put the fugitive diamantaire within a hair’s breadth of something which didn’t seem possible until recently— being thrust into a jet to face the law back in India.
THE GREAT ESCAPE ARTIST
Diese Geschichte stammt aus der June 21, 2021-Ausgabe von India Today.
Starten Sie Ihre 7-tägige kostenlose Testversion von Magzter GOLD, um auf Tausende kuratierte Premium-Storys sowie über 8.000 Zeitschriften und Zeitungen zuzugreifen.
Bereits Abonnent ? Anmelden
Diese Geschichte stammt aus der June 21, 2021-Ausgabe von India Today.
Starten Sie Ihre 7-tägige kostenlose Testversion von Magzter GOLD, um auf Tausende kuratierte Premium-Storys sowie über 8.000 Zeitschriften und Zeitungen zuzugreifen.
Bereits Abonnent? Anmelden
Grand Young Master
Seventeen-yearold D. Gukesh has become the youngest player to win the Candidates chess tournament
SPORTING SPIRIT
BADMINTON PLAYER ASHWINI PONNAPPA, 34, IS OFF TO HER THIRD OLYMPICS, THIS TIME WITH A NEW PARTNER, TANISHA CRASTO
PORTRAITS OF A PEOPLE
Etchings by the colonial Flemish artist F. Baltazard Solvyns are getting a new lease of life in an exhibition at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
Centennial Man
A seminal exhibition of K.G. Subramanyan's works in his birth centenary year at Emami Art, Kolkata takes an imaginative and immersive curatorial approach
Rhythms of Nature
ARTIST AND MUSIC COMPOSER GINGGER SHANKAR'S LATEST SINGLE COMBINES SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC WITH INUIT THROAT SINGING
SEARCHING FOR THE SOUND
Kashmiri musician Faheem Abdullah’s debut album Lost; Found is a collaborative effort
FOUND IN TRANSLATION
With its excellent translations, Songs of Tagore makes Rabindrasangit accessible to the non-Bengali reader
Of Freedom and Friendship
T.C.A. RAGHAVAN'S CIRCLES OF FREEDOM FOLLOWS THREE YOUNG MUSLIMS DRAWN INTO THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE
The Razor's Edge
Salman Rushdie's Knife is an eloquent, first-person account of the horrific attack on him. It's also a love story
THE LAST-MILE PUSH
The India Today Smart Money Financial Summit had top experts discussing how technology could be leveraged to widen the reach of personal finance tools