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-The Telegraph

The growing trend of India's super rich shopping offshore for citizenships of convenience

Mehul Choksi is not keeping well. Or so the absconding billionaire and uncle to the absconding diamantaire, Nirav Modi, told the Enforcement Directorate when he was asked to appear in a Mumbai court not long ago.

It is a pity, for had Choksi been in better health, he would have been able to enjoy his new country, Antigua and Barbuda, to its fullest. He would have been able to visit a new beach every day of his very first year as citizen — Antigua and Barbuda has, after all, 365 beaches.

According to the island country’s government, Choksi applied for its citizenship-by-investment programme in November 2017. Choksi, who along with Modi, allegedly cheated the Punjab National Bank of over Rs 13,000 crore, made an investment of $4,00,000 (nearly Rs 3 crore) in Antigua. By January 2018 he got a new passport. He went missing from India soon after; the Interpol issued a Red Corner Notice against him in December. He returned the Indian passport last month.

Neither Choksi nor his lawyer, David Dorsett, responded to repeated queries by The Telegraph, but it seems Choksi window-shopped for a new citizenship a good while before he zeroed in on Antigua and Barbuda. And he was not the only one with the bright idea. In 2017 and 2018, many of India’s ultra-rich either went around shopping for new passports or looking for a permanent residence outside India. Johannesburg-based wealth consultancy New World Wealth pegs the figure at 7,000 for 2017. The figures for 2018 are yet to be released.

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