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In a setback for India’s enforcement authorities, Interpol has removed the name of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, the alleged co-mastermind of the Rs 12, 500-crore Punjab National Bank fraud case, from its red corner notice list (any person named on the list can be detained by a host country globally), sources said.
The action of the global police body was in response to Choksi’s representations to it, requesting his de-listing from the RCN List, based on his contention that in May 2021, he had allegedly been abducted and forcibly brought to Dominica from Antigua and Barbuda, about 100 miles away, in a bid to take him to India, sources said. When contacted, officers from CBI and ED had no reaction to the latest development.
