Fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi’s lawyer has contested the remarks made by Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne who stated that the diamantaire could have taken his girlfriend to Dominica on a romantic journey and bought caught.
In an announcement, Choksi’s lawyer Vijay Aggarwal alleged that the girl in query was a part of the crew deployed to abduct him. Aggarwal stated that the girl “bought pleasant with the entire household” and later shifted to a home close to Choksi’s residence in Antigua.
Aggarwal additional claimed within the assertion that the girl invited Choksi to her home for a short time and there different members of the crew deployed to select the businessman. “They grabbed him and threw him in a yacht and took him to Dominica.”
The lawyer’s assertion additionally stated that because the lady has vanished, Choksi’s stand that he was kidnapped is legitimate.
Gaston Browne had earlier instructed native media that India has despatched a non-public jet to get Mehul Choksi repatriated straight from Dominica. Choksi has Antiguan citizenship and has been dwelling there since he fled India after being named in a monetary rip-off.
A Bombardier World 5,000 jet of Qatar Govt had mysteriously landed at Dominica’s Douglas Charles airport on Saturday. It’s publicly accessible flight path reveals that it took off from New Delhi on Might 28 and reached Dominica through Madrid.
PM Browne, who has been vocal about not accepting Choksi again in his nation, the place he’s a citizen, stated, “My understanding is that [the] Indian authorities has despatched sure documentation from courts in India to verify that Choksi is certainly a fugitive”. These paperwork, Browne added, will likely be utilised within the court docket case in Dominica, the place a choose is listening to the matter and has put a keep on repatriation until Wednesday.
The most recent growth comes shortly after Choksi’s first image emerged in three years, exhibiting him behind bars and with accidents on his fingers and a swollen and bruised left eye. The images had been launched by the Antigua Newsroom. His attorneys have alleged abduction try from Jolly Harbour in Antigua and Barbuda by Indian and Antiguan officers.
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After Choksi mysteriously disappeared from Antigua final Sunday, a political storm was sparked in Antigua the place he’s a citizen.
Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are wished in India for allegedly siphoning off ₹13,500 crore of public cash from the state-run Punjab Nationwide Financial institution (PNB) utilizing letters of enterprise.