Accurately knowing the investigation, he destroyed the evidence and left the country

New Delhi: Fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi came to know in 2014 that he would be questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Comes. He had fled Ritsar in a planned manner from India and destroyed most of the evidence of his scam before fleeing, the CBI said. The CBI has inserted Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code for destroying evidence in its supplementary indictment. The Indian government is actively working with Dominica to bring back the fugitive Choksi, the foreign ministry said.

Choksi, along with PNB deputy manager Gokulnath Shetty, recovered documents containing fraudulent amendments in 12 Letters of Undertaking (LOUs) and 3 Foreign Letters of Credit (FLC) between March and April 2016. Shetty dishonestly and fraudulently returned the documents submitted by the accused company Gitanjali Gems Limited, Gili India Limited and Makshatra Brands, when in fact they were supposed to be in the custody of the bank.

The CBI alleged that they had obtained the documents during a raid on a complex rented by Vipul Chunilal Chitalia, an employee of Mehul Chinubhai Choksi. The documents were first obtained from 101-6 Sony Chamber Annex, Opera House Mumbai and Hari Kishan Das Hospital at Khetwadi in Mumbai. He was shifted to Shop No. 12-A-17 on Babasaheb Jayakar Marg in Mumbai on February 5, 2016 during the CBI probe. The CBI had alleged that Panchitalia had rented the place for the purpose of disappearing evidence.

The documents were found during a CBI probe. The agency also found fake LOUs and FLC records in police custody from Chitalia's Google Drive. Choksi himself was preparing to leave India for safety by instructing the employees to destroy the evidence of the scam.

Choksi met dummy directors of his own supplier companies during a visit to Hong Kong in 2012, who were allegedly his employees. These companies were beneficiaries of LOUs and FLCs issued by Punjab National Bank. Choksi had told the dummy directors not to come to India during the interview and also warned that they could face ED interrogation if they did, the agency alleged. This shows that Mehul Choksi already knew that he could be prosecuted. Due to this, Mehul Choksi fled Bhafarat on January 8, 2016, so that he could avoid legal action. Choksi was granted citizenship of the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda in 2015. He has been living there since 2013 and has been mysteriously missing since May 4. He has been arrested for illegal entry into neighboring Dominica and is facing court action.

In December 2013, Choksi called Kalpen Doshi, director of Crown Aim, and asked him to hand over all the documents to his assistant Chitiya. Chitalia had applied for a work permit in Thailand on behalf of his controlling company, Abicrest. While Choksi was manipulating the directors in this way, the manager Shetty, who played a key role in the scam, did his best to clean everything up before his supernatural. Shetty was an approver in the FLC issued to Choksi's companies. He initially made some entries in PNB's central banking system, but then he drastically improved its amount and its details were not disclosed in CBS to avoid any kind of scrutiny in case of bankruptcy. Prior to his supernatural in 2014, he had also paid upfront bills out of 15. He misrepresented the International Banking Message Swift as Collection Bills instead of Negotiation Bills. No previous entry was made in the bank's CBS.