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A Timeline of Mehul Choksi's Global Escape from PNB Scam to Arrest in Belgium
Apr 14, 2025 04:35 pm
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Divya  Delhi:  Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials  that Mehul Choski, a fugitive businessman, was apprehended in Belgium on Monday He is a suspect in the $2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) Scam. According to media sources, two Mumbai court non-bailable warrants from May 23, 2018, and June 15, 2021, led to his arrest. Mehul Choksi, his nephew Nirav Modi, their family employees, and other bank personnel were charged by ED and CBI with fraud at PNB's Brady House branch in Mumbai in 2018. Punjab National Bank informed SEBI and the Bombay Stock Exchange of a Rs 11,356 crore fraud by Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi in the first week of February 2018. The CBI and Enforcement Directorate want the 65-year-old diamond trader, who fled India on January 2, 2018, for stealing Rs 13,850 crore from Punjab National Bank. PNB thereafter informed the CBI of a Rs 1,300 crore fraud. Investigation found that currency department Deputy Manager Gokul Nath Shetty and bank official Manoj Kharat submitted a false Letter Of Undertaking (LOU) to Nirav Modi and Mehul Chowksi's firms. Bypassing the CBS (Core Banking System) and not making bank entries disguised the information from the bank.