Overview
- Antwerp judges ruled most Indian charges meet the dual‑criminality test, finding no legal obstacle to transfer on counts including conspiracy, fraud, breach of trust, forgery and corruption.
- The court excluded only the Indian charge of causing disappearance of evidence (IPC Section 201) as it is not recognised under Belgian law.
- Claims of political persecution, risk of torture or unfair trial, and an alleged 2021 kidnapping from Antigua were rejected for lack of concrete, personal risk.
- India’s assurances on detention were recorded, with plans to hold Choksi in Barrack No. 12 at Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail with specified space, sanitation, medical access and judicial, not investigative, custody.
- Two Indian arrest warrants from 2018 and 2021 were upheld as enforceable, his April 2025 arrest in Belgium was validated, and extradition execution now awaits appeal outcomes and government formalities.