The government is aware that businessman Mehul Choksi - wanted in connection with the Rs 13,850 crore Punjab National Bank scam - was arrested in Belgium over the weekend, and is working towards a quick extradition, sources told News Agency Monday afternoon.
A request to deport Mr Choksi to India has been made, sources said, stressing the government will use every legal tool available to bring him back.
Should Mr Choksi - an international fugitive for over seven years now, since he fled to the US in January 2018 - be brought back to India, his will be the second high-profile extradition this year, after terrorist Tahawwur Rana, a 26/11 Mumbai attack accused, was sent from the US.