Fugitive Mehul Choksi once again is into headlines after an animated video went viral on social media. With a duration of more than 20 minutes, the animated film explored every aspect of the event which is how Mehul Choksi committed a million-dollar scam in India and managed his escape from Antigua and Barbuda.
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The film demonstrated how Mehul Choksi utilized visitors as bait to pretend that he vanished rather than being slapped as absconded, explaining all the parts and pieces backed by publicly available facts. The film explained Mehul’s plan to escape extradition to India.
The film started by showing how Mehul Choksi, with the assistance of his nephew Nirav Modi, uncovered a staggering USD 2 billion scandal at India’s Punjab National Bank. Both of them then fled to London and Antigua and Barbuda, respectively.
The social media video describes how Mehul Choksi contacted Paul Stephane Emmanuel and Leonard Anthony Cole, two Jamaican transporters, to start the conspiracy. Choksi recruited these two people to take him to Cuba, which does not have an extradition treaty with India, where he would pretend to be kidnapped. Choksi requested that they rent a boat and transport him to Cuba for this reason.
The film also showed how Choksi, tricked an innocent visitor in Antigua into falling for his scheme, leading her to mistrust him when, in reality, she was a victim. In order to obtain information about the tourist’s whereabouts, he pretended to be Raj in front of her and gave her a diamond necklace. By promising to take her on the boat in Jolly Harbour, he also persuaded the visitor to rent a property with a jetty attached.
Choksi was to depart Antigua for Cuba on May 24, 2021, but when he got to know that the tourist had preponed her visit for May 23, 2021, he also did the same. Choksi hid in the rented villa and instructed the driver to park the car in front of her house the following day.
According to the video, Mehul Choksi was hurt when he slipped down the stairs in her home, but he still left for Cuba the next morning, despite having a cut on his finger and a bruise close to his eyes. When the transporters inquired about his injuries upon boarding the aircraft, Choksi didn’t provide any response. He got a call on his satellite phone in the middle of his trip alerting him to a concerning situation in Cuba. Choksi changed his mind and asked the transporters to change the route to Dominica shortly after the call.
But when Choksi reached Dominica, He was taken into jail by the Dominican police when they recognized him as an “Indian fugitive”.
The video also revealed how Mehul Choksi alongside his brother Chetan Chinubhai Choksi bribed the police authorities in Antigua and Barbuda. As per the video, the police authorities were bribed by Choksi brothers to exaggerate his kidnapping plot and also manipulate the evidence against him. It is also said that Mehul’s brother bribed many top officials and prominent people to escape the extradition.
He also employed skilled lawyers to disseminate the story that he had been kidnapped in order to avoid legal proceedings in India. The film shows how Choksi plotted every step of his kidnapping plot and duped officials in India and Antigua & Barbuda.