Mehul Choksi, the owner of Gitanjali Gems Ltd and the co-accused in the Rs 12,700 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, has informed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that he cannot travel to India owing to a ‘heart-condition’.
Choksi, asked to appear in Mumbai on 7 March, 2018, informed the investigating officer that a persistent health problem prevents him from travel.
Choksi was summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation to appear before it on March 7.
He said he was travelling “abroad for my business” and had embarked on the journey before the probe agency filed an FIR against him.
“I wish to bring to your kind attention that your good self and your office is well aware that my passport has been suspended,” he wrote in a seven-page letter in response to an emailed notice to the businessman.