Diamond tycoon Mehul Choksi (right) with actor Salman Khan in Mumbai on Sept 15, 2009. - AFP
BANGALORE (The Strait Times/Asia News Netwwork): Indian investigative agencies are struggling to capture suspected white-collar criminals who have evaded trial simply by leaving the country and not coming back.
In 2020, the central government told Parliament that about 70 people accused of bank fraud or financial crimes had fled India since 2015 and were living abroad. According to a law enacted in 2018, they are "fugitive economic offenders".
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