Bhavnagar: A jeweller from Gujarat’s Bhavnagar, Digvijay Singh Jadeja, on Friday said that he had informed the Gujarat High Court and the state government against Mehul Choksi, overseeing chief of Gitanjali Gems, in 2015, however no one heard him in those days.
“In 2015, I had told it to Gujarat High Court and state Government and asked for them to grab his international ID. Had move been made at that point, he wouldn’t have gotten away today,” Jeweler DS Jadeja told ANI.
The Gujarat-based gem specialist additionally asserted that Choksi tricked him of Rs 60 crore.
“Mehul Choksi tricked me of Rs 60 crore and took Rs 9872 crore wrongfully from banks,” included Jadeja.
In the interim, the Ministry of External Affairs has suspended the legitimacy of the visas of specialists Nirav Deepak Modi and Mehul Chinubhai Choksi, who have been blamed for punching a conceivable $1.77-billion gap in the Punjab National Bank’s coffers, with prompt impact on the counsel of the Enforcement Directorate.
The proposed suspension of visas of Modi and Choksi comes days after the PNB announced an extortion of Rs 11,400 crore submitted by both with the assistance of workers of the Mumbai branch of the bank.
The extortion was professedly executed by a few PNB representatives, including key branch authorities, without authorisation, issuing purported letters of undertaking, or LoUs, (basically ensures) that helped Nirav Modi’s organizations raise credit from different banks. The LoUs, issued when abroad import installments are included, fundamentally ensure risk installment by one bank to another in the interest of its customer.
The case identifies with goldsmith Nirav Modi, who was at that point under scrutiny following a PNB grievance on January 29 about fake exchanges of Rs 280 crore. The bank had said at the time that it was checking if the case was really greater.