AS EXTRADITION FROM BELGIUM LOOMS, MEHUL CHOKSI'S LAWYERS ATTEMPT TO GET HIS NON-BAILABLE STATUS CHANGED IN INDIA

The real life Star Wars villain

Attorneys for India's real life version of JABBA THE HUTT, MEHUL CHOKSI, is seeking advantages before he even gets to his native country to face justice for the equivalent of a two billion dollar fraud. His lawyers have a hearing coming up on June 16, at which time they will argue that his non-bailable arrest warrant be cancelled. If the court grants their motion, he could, in theory be released on bond, notwithstanding that he cheated justice for several years with his handy Antigua Citizenship by Investment (CIP) passport, issued to him when he was already on law enforcement's radar as a career fraudster who swindled Punjab National Bank (PNB). having eaten his way across Antigua, Choksi now want to do the same thing in his native India, whilst his lawyers attempt to delay his trial for several years, using the victims' money.

For the benefit of those who still extol the benefits of economic citizenships, and preach that due diligence is "among the best" in the CBI states of the Eastern Caribbean, Mehul Choksi is the Poster Boy for the proposition that their claims that effective and adequate screening occurs in the region are self-serving nonsense, spread by those whose livelihood depends on selling passports to criminals, whose filthy lucre blinds them to the truth. When the worst white collar thieves can find a Caribbean country to sell them a passport for cash ( in US Dollars, naturally) the system is broken. The question is: can it be fixed?