NEW DELHI: A Belgian courtroom is learnt to have rejected the bail plea of fugitive diamantaire Mehul choksi forward of his extradition listening to there. Choksi, who was once arrested in Belgium in April this yr, had carried out for bail on clinical grounds final month. Indian regulation enforcement companies argued that Choksi was once a routine absconder and was once prone to flee to any other nation if granted bail. The courtroom authorized the argument and denied bond. Choksi is sought after in financial institution fraud circumstances price over Rs 13,900 crore. He has been in a Belgian prison for over 4 months now. Forward of his extradition listening to scheduled in mid-Sept, the CBI has supplied Belgian prosecutors voluminous proof of his involvement in financial offences in India and main points of his break out from US and Antigua up to now, but even so the 2 open warrants towards him. The International Operations Centre of CBI is tracking the traits within the case in direct coordination with overseas regulation enforcement companies and Interpol channels. It has additionally employed the services and products of an area regulation company to reinforce the case. In Jan 2018, Choksi had fled to america after which to Antigua, whose citizenship he had got a yr sooner than. The CBI filed an FIR on criticism of financial institution fraud and began a probe. In 2021, he vanished from Antigua and surfaced in Dominica whilst seeking to break out to Cuba on a ship. In 2022, 5 extra circumstances had been registered towards him. He relocated to Belgium, for the second one time, thereafter along with his spouse Preeti Choksi, who’s a Belgian citizen, after securing an ‘F Residency Card’ there. Granted a residency in Belgium in Nov 2023, Choksi was once arrested there on April 11 this yr.