MEHUL CHOKSI, ANTIGUA'S POSTER BOY FOR CIP CORRUPTION, MOVES EVER CLOSER TO JUSTICE WITH APPEALS COURT NOW ADVISING BELGIAN GOVERNMENT TO EXTRADITE THE $2bn FRAUDSTER TO INDIA

Resignation 1 by ALEX CEPPI www.alexcepppi.com

Time is running out for MEHUL CHOKSI, the Indian diamond dealer who defrauded PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK out of the equivalent of more than two billion dollars, then was protected by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, who sold him a Citizenship by Investment (CIP) passport while under criminal investigation, and thereafter allowed him to artfully delay extradition for several years in the country's corrupt court system, through judicial rulings in his favor alleged to have been secured through the payment of significant bribes.

The case exposed the corrupt role of Prime Minister GASTON BROWNE's Labour government in directly facilitating the denial of justice, which has not gone unnoticed amongst potential foreign investors, who require that the Rule of Law be adhered to in jurisdictions where they consider investing. The Choksi scandal is but the latest example of how the current Labour government has used frequent changes in assigned judges, repeated appearance of new counsel, and the acceptance of frivolous and dilatory appeals to delay justice in extradition cases for as long as a decade, under circumstances that suggest corruption, malfeasance, and undue executive influence over assigned judiciary. The Court of Appeal in Belgium, which denied Choksi's legal efforts against extradition to his native India, to face the music, notified the Interior Ministry of Belgium on April 3, 2026 to process him for extradition, on six charges that include criminal conspiracy, forgery and embezzlement. There are now no legal impediments to his extradition, which is currently projected to occur sometime in May.