There is no end to greed. This is a truth we cannot escape as we examine the list of 2,426 wilful defaulters who owe Indian banks over Rs. 1.47 lakh crore. Almost all of these defaulters never ever had any intention of paying back. The top 33 in this list, who owe more than Rs. 500 crore each, alone account for Rs. 32,737 crore in unpaid dues. Vijay Mallya owes Rs. 9,000 crore. He is spending a fortune trying not to get himself extradited to India. Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, his wife Ami Modi, brother Neeshal Modi and uncle Mehul Choksi are involved in a bank fraud of Rs. 12,636 crore. The family was united in engineering this massive fraud. Fleeing abroad has been a common ploy employed by most scamsters. Mehul Choksi, who now lives on the Antigua and Barbuda islands of the Caribbean, owes Punjab National Bank Rs. 4,644 crore. The RBI has named him, along with the Jhunjhunwala brothers and Vijay Mallya, among the top 50 wilful defaulters who have scammed India’s banks. Choksi is wanted by judicial authorities in India, where he is to be tried for a host of crimes: corruption, cheating, dishonesty, criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, and money-laundering. Non-bailable warrants have been issued against him.
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