Mehul Choksi's top UK lawyers were paid 'defrauded money' as their fee?

Roseau, Dominica: Top lawyers from the United Kingdom will be flying all the way into Dominica just days ahead of Mehul Choksi's June 2 hearing in Dominica's High court of Justice.  The law firm from London is expected to fasten up his release process and take him back to Antigua. 

The lawyers are charging an enormous amount of money as there are speculations that the team consisting four members will reach Dominica in a chartered flight from the UK. The question here arises that who is paying for the heavy-duty legal team which will defend the case of fugitive Mehul Choksi and what is the source of that money being paid to them. 

People are expressing their outrage on how Choksi's family will pay off the top lawyers’ fee. There are speculations that his family is using the same money that Choksi defrauded from India based public bank, the Panjab National Bank.

Sources told WIC News Mehul Choksi's family relied on their firm Geetanjali Jewellers, which had more than 4,000 stores across India; however, the firm is now closed since the diamantaire could not pay off the massive USD 2 billion loans. With the closure of the only support of income, there are no sources of tangible financial aid for Mehul Choksi or his family. The jeweller family is solely relying on the money which once belonged to the taxpayers of India.

The expensive lawyers from the UK will be receiving the black money or illegally obtained money as their fee to free Mehul Choksi. It is a crime to accept finances earned through money laundering or accepting defrauded money.

People of India are demanding Choksi's family to publicly tell how they will be affording lawyers who charge a significant amount of money. Read More.

The walls and front door of Choksi's Mumbai based residence are stamped with notices and warrant from various investigating agencies.

Apart from this, a legal advisory firm has also said that they will pursue the matter with the International Law Commission to probe the fund source of Mehul Choksi and how the lawyers were paid hefty amounts of money. Apart from these, Mehul Choksi's lawyer teams are operating from India, Antigua and Dominica separately to save him from extradition to India.

Choksi and his family live their luxurious lives on the money they obtained by defrauding the national bank amounting to more than $2 billion. The Enforcement Directorate has already attached the properties owned by Choksi’s jewellery group to recover money.

Punjab National Bank, often known as PNB, is an Indian government-owned bank and operates under the ownership of the Ministry of Finance. The bank is also the second-largest lender in the country.