MUMBAI: Diamantaire Mehul Choksi, an accused within the multi-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, has moved the Bombay high courtroom, in the hunt for dismissal of an software filed by means of the enforcement directorate (ED) in a special courtroom to claim him as a fugitive financial culprit.
In a petition filed on Wednesday through suggest Vijay Aggarwal, he said he was unable to go back to India because of continual well being problems.
Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are sought after by means of the ED and the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) for allegedly defrauding PNB to the music of Rs 13,400 crore, in collusion with a few of its staff.
The ED had filed an software prior to a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) courtroom, in the hunt for for Choksi to be declared a "fugitive economic offender" for evading summons to seem prior to the company and that his properties be confiscated underneath the provisions of the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018.
Choksi had then filed an software prior to the decrease courtroom, in the hunt for for the ED's plea to be dismissed.
When the decrease courtroom rejected his software, Choksi approached the high courtroom.
"He (Choksi) has not intentionally refused to return, but is unable to return due to his medical conditions. He has also attached his medical records," Aggarwal said.
In his 2nd petition, Choksi also sought a path to the special courtroom to allow him to cross-examine the ones individuals on whose statements the ED is depending upon to claim Choksi as a fugitive financial culprit.
A division bench of Justices I A Mahanty and A M Badar has posted each the petitions for hearing on June 5.
In a petition filed on Wednesday through suggest Vijay Aggarwal, he said he was unable to go back to India because of continual well being problems.
Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are sought after by means of the ED and the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) for allegedly defrauding PNB to the music of Rs 13,400 crore, in collusion with a few of its staff.
The ED had filed an software prior to a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) courtroom, in the hunt for for Choksi to be declared a "fugitive economic offender" for evading summons to seem prior to the company and that his properties be confiscated underneath the provisions of the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018.
Choksi had then filed an software prior to the decrease courtroom, in the hunt for for the ED's plea to be dismissed.
When the decrease courtroom rejected his software, Choksi approached the high courtroom.
"He (Choksi) has not intentionally refused to return, but is unable to return due to his medical conditions. He has also attached his medical records," Aggarwal said.
In his 2nd petition, Choksi also sought a path to the special courtroom to allow him to cross-examine the ones individuals on whose statements the ED is depending upon to claim Choksi as a fugitive financial culprit.
A division bench of Justices I A Mahanty and A M Badar has posted each the petitions for hearing on June 5.
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