Fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, who had fled Antigua and Barbuda, has been captured in Dominica, ANI quoted local media reports from the country as saying.
Following his arrest, Antiguan Prime Minister Gaston Browne said he has asked the Dominican government to have Choksi repatriated to India. Indian authorities have not yet given an official statement on the matter.
The 62-year-old, who had been staying in Antigua and Barbuda since 2018, is wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the over Rs 13,000-crore Punjab National Bank fraud case.
His staff had reported him missing after his car was found.
The businessman’s lawyer, Vijay Aggarwal, had confirmed that Choksi had been missing since Sunday.
The reports of Choksi gone missing created a flutter in the Caribbeans island country after the opposition raised the issue in the Antigua and Barbuda Parliament.
Responding to the opposition, Prime Minister Browne had said his dispensation was “collaborating” with the Indian government, neighbouring countries and international police organisations to try and locate him.
Mehul Choksi has claimed that the cases against him are a result of political conspiracy, and his properties in India were illegally attached by the Enforcement Directorate.
