Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi is in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Dominica. Police in Dominica captured Choksi on Tuesday night (local time) after an Interpol Yellow Notice was issued by Antigua and Barbuda.

According to local media, Choksi had been residing in Antigua and Barbuda since 2018 after taking citizenship.

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Currently, efforts are on to hand him over to the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda, news agency PTI reported quoting local media.

Mehul Choksi, the owner of the Gitanjali Jewels, was last seen on Sunday in his car. Police recovered the vehicle after a search but Choksi could not be found, PTI reported.

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“I have spoken to his family, and they are happy and relieved that his whereabouts are now known. Efforts are being made to speak to him so that one can know a clearer picture of how he was taken to Dominica,” news agency ANI quoted Choksi’s lawyer Vijay Aggarwal.

Choksi and nephew Nirav Modi are wanted in a Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank fraud. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is investigating the scam.

In March this year, Antigua initiated the process to cancel Choksi’s citizenship but he had challenged the government’s move in court.

The complaint by PNB was filed in 2018. It was alleged that two junior employees at its Brady House branch in Mumbai, in collusion with Modi and Choksi’s companies, issued fraudulent “letters of undertaking” without asking for any margin money as security. It stated that fraudulent LoUs worth Rs 2.8 billion were first issued to the duo. Within three months, the scam has ballooned to over Rs 11,000 crore.