After a Yellow Notice was issued by Interpol against him, fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi was capt🌌ured in Dominica, the local m⭕edia reported on Wednesday.
He had recently fled from Antigua and Barbuda.
Police in Dominica captured Choksi on Tuesday night (loca🐻l time) after an Interpol Yellow Notice was issued by Antigua and Barbuda.
Efforts are on to hand him over to the Royal Police Forcꦍe of Antigua and Bar🐽buda, the local media reports stated.
Choksi had been living in Antigua and Barbuda 🌠since 2018 after taking the citizenship of the country, 🌜Antigua News Room reported.
The Yellow Notice is issued by the Interpol to track missin꧒g persons.
Choksi, who is✨ wanted in a Rs 13,500 crore loan fraud in the Pu🦩njab National Bank, was last seen going for dinner in his car in Antigua and Barbuda on Sunday.
His staff h🦄ad reported him missing after his car was foun💙d.
The🏅 businessman's lawyer Vijay Aggarwal had confirmed that Choksi had been missing since Sunday.
The reports of Choksi gone missing created flutter in the Carribbeans island country after the oppo🐓sition raised the issue in Antigua and Barbuda Parliament.
Responding to the opposition, Prime Minister Gaston Browne had said that his dispensation was &quo꧑t;collaborating" with the Indian government, neighbour🌼ing countries and international police organisations to try and locate Choksi.
"Someone from his household indicated that he is 🌠missing. Since then the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda put out a sta🌠tement to that effect. That statement will be shared with the Interpol," he had said.
Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi allegedly sip🐽honed off Rs 13,500 crore of public money from the state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB), using fraudulent letters of undertaking.
Modi🍬 is contesting his extradition lodged in a London jail after repeated denial of his bail by courts.
Choksi had taken citizenship of A🎶ntigua and Barbuda in 2017 using the Citizenship by Investment programme before escaping India in the first week of January 2018. The scam came to light subsequently.
Both are facing a CBI probe.
(With PTI inputs.)
