{"id":300759,"date":"2018-07-25T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300759"},"modified":"2018-07-25T06:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T06:41:41","slug":"mehul-choksi-flees-to-antigua-gets-local-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mehul-choksi-flees-to-antigua-gets-local-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehul Choksi flees to Antigua, gets local passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 18pt; background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300760 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mehul-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mehul-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mehul.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/>Gitanjali group promoter and diamantaire Mehul Choksi, who defrauded public sector banks of several thousand crore rupees has moved to Antigua and got a local passport there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18pt; background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\">As per sources, Mehul Choksi fled from United States to the island of Antigua to save himself from the extradition as India doesn\u2019t have an extradition treaty with the country. Mehul fled India in the month of January before the accusations came into light, since then the Investigation agencies have been searching for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18pt; background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Investigative agencies CBI and ED had issued non-bailable warrant against him, after which \u201cred corner\u201d notice was issued by the Interpol.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gitanjali group promoter and diamantaire Mehul Choksi, who defrauded public sector banks of several thousand crore rupees has moved to Antigua and got a local passport there. As per sources, Mehul Choksi fled from United States to the island of Antigua to save himself from the extradition as India doesn\u2019t have an extradition treaty with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3845,3844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300762,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300759\/revisions\/300762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}