Choksi complains of big ‘ conspiracy’
New Delhi: Absconding jeweller Mehul Choksi has claimed that the charges of money laundering and corruption against him are a “big political conspiracy” and that there is “extraordinary pressure” on the ruling dispensation to bring back at least one bank defaulter.
New Delhi, Sept. 11: Absconding jeweller Mehul Choksi has claimed that the charges of money laundering and corruption against him are a “big political conspiracy” and that there is “extraordinary pressure” on the ruling dispensation to bring back at least one bank defaulter as this has the potential for changing the results of forthcoming elections.
Calling himself a “soft target”, Choksi, an accused in the $ 2- billion PNB fraud case, said he has been made a sacrificial lamb for the “fault” of the state owned bank where, he alleged, the problem was of a “mismatch” in the reporting mechanism to the Reserve Bank.
“This is a big political conspiracy and it ( the case) has now become political. I am a soft target. There is a lot of pressure on the government to bring back the bank defaulters and if even one person is not brought back then the results of elections can change. I have been made a scapegoat and if you see my companies were associated with the banks since 1995 and there has never been a problem,” Choksi, who is stated to be in the caribbean nation of Antigua now, told ABP News.