{"id":308375,"date":"2019-01-21T06:13:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308375"},"modified":"2019-01-21T06:13:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:13:08","slug":"fugitive-businessman-mehul-choksi-surrenders-indian-passport-to-antigua-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/fugitive-businessman-mehul-choksi-surrenders-indian-passport-to-antigua-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi surrenders Indian Passport to Antigua government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; 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=\"468\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mehul-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mehul.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PNB scam accused Mehul Choksi has given up his Indian citizenship and surrendered his passport to Antigua government. The move is seen as an attempt to avoid extradition to India, where he is wanted for loan fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, Choksi has also submitted 177 dollars with his passport to the Indian High Commission in Antigua.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Choksi, 59, was granted citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi are accused of cheating Punjab National Bank to the tune of Rs 13,000 crore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both left India in the first week of January 2018, weeks before the scam was reported to the CBI.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PNB scam accused Mehul Choksi has given up his Indian citizenship and surrendered his passport to Antigua government. The move is seen as an attempt to avoid extradition to India, where he is wanted for loan fraud. According to the sources, Choksi has also submitted 177 dollars with his passport to the Indian High Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10651,3844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308375"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308376,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308375\/revisions\/308376"}],"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=308375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}