The government is aware that businessman Mehul Choksi<\/a> – wanted in connection with the Rs 13,850 crore Punjab National Bank<\/a> scam – was arrested in Belgium over the weekend, and is working towards a quick extradition, sources told NDTV 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.<\/p>\n 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 extradited from the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mehul Choksi, 65, was arrested by Belgium authorities on Saturday.<\/p>\n This was after the Belgian Foreign Ministry confirmed to NDTV that Mehul Choksi – who fled from India to the US and then to the Caribbean island nation of Antigua to avoid arrest – was in that country. The Belgian ministry told NDTV it attached “great importance” to the matter.<\/p>\n NDTV Explains |\u00a0<\/strong>Mehul Choksi Tried To Get To Switzerland. How He Was Stopped<\/a><\/p>\n Mr Choksi is expected to mount a series of legal challenges to India’s extradition request, beginning with a request for bail citing his age and medical condition; he is a cancer patient.<\/p>\n READ |\u00a0<\/strong>Mehul Choksi’s Lawyer On Grounds For Appeal Against Arrest<\/a><\/p>\n “My client is not a flight risk. He is extremely sick and is undergoing treatment for cancer,” his lawyer, Vijay Aggarwal told reporters after the arrest. Mr Choksi and his wife, Preeti Choksi, a Belgian citizen, had been living in Antwerp after he obtained a ‘residency card’.<\/p>\n READ |\u00a0<\/strong>“Reasons Beyond Control”: Mehul Choksi On Why He Isn’t In India<\/a><\/p>\n Mr Choksi and his nephew, Nirav Modi – awaiting extradition from London – are wanted by the CBI and Enforcement Directorate for allegedly cheating PNB of nearly Rs 14,000 crore in 2018.<\/p>\n READ |\u00a0<\/strong>Who Is Mehul Choksi, Fugitive Tycoon Arrested In Belgium<\/a><\/p>\n He fled India in 2018 and later acquired citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda. He reportedly left the island for treatment of his cancer<\/a> and was, sources said, planning to move to Switzerland.<\/p>\n Last month Antigua Foreign Minister EP Chet Greene confirmed Mr Choksi had left.<\/p>\n