India is actively engaged with Dominica for the deportation of Mehul Choksi
On Thursday, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that it is actively engaged with Dominica to seek early deportation of fugitive diamond merchant Mehul Choksi and his handover to India. Asked about Choksi at an online media briefing, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said he continues to be in the custody of authorities in the Commonwealth of Dominica and legal proceedings are underway.
“Government of India is actively engaged with the Dominican Government to seek the early deportation and handover to India of Mehul Choksi to face justice in our country,” he said[1]. “The criminal charges that Mehul Choksi faces in India and the facts relating to his continued Indian citizenship have been suitably brought to the attention of the authorities in the Commonwealth of Dominica,” the MEA spokesperson said.
Mehul Choksi, 62, had mysteriously gone missing on May 23 from Antigua and Barbuda. He was detained in the neighboring island country of Dominica on May 23 for illegal entry after a possible romantic escapade with his rumoured girlfriend.
A Dominican magistrate court adjourned till June 25 the hearing into the alleged illegal entry of Choksi into the Caribbean island nation, local media there had reported earlier this week. On Monday, the magistrate court was to start hearing the case of Choksi’s “illegal entry” into the country on May 23 but he was a “no show”, a media website NatureIsleNews had reported.
Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi (currently in a London jail) had fled India in the first week of January 2018, weeks before the scam in the Punjab National Bank rocked the Indian banking industry. Nirav Modi escaped to Europe and was finally held in London where he is contesting his extradition to India, while Choksi took citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda in 2017 where he was staying since his escape from Delhi.
Mehul Choksi, 62, had mysteriously gone missing on May 23 from Antigua and Barbuda. He was detained in the neighbouring island country of Dominica on May 23 for illegal entry after a possible romantic escapade with his rumoured girlfriend. His lawyers alleged that he was kidnapped from Jolly Harbour in Antigua by policemen looking like Antiguans and Indians and brought to Dominica on a boat. PGurus reported the mysterious Hungarian lady Barbara Jarabik, who settled in the UK, who took Choksi to Dominica from Antigua with help of three Indian-origin-UK-settled bouncers[2].
References:
[1] Dominica court adjourns till June 25 hearing in Mehul Choksi’s illegal entry into Caribbean island nation – Jun 15, 2021, ET
[2] Meet escort girl Barbara Jarabik, who picked up Mehul Choksi along with three Indian-origin-UK-settled bouncers. Barbara knew Choksi and Nirav Modi for many years – Jun 11, 2021, PGurus.com
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Who knows what secrets he holds!
If he does reach India alive ( who knows the plane may crash) he will be blurting names and that may pose huge problems. Of course Covid could currently be used in lieu.
” Me Too ” Mallya was sent out of India to ensure this.
“Honeytrap” is the name of the game to seduce when money fails to induce.
Recall Hercule Poirot the Detective ( fiction written by Agatha Christie) saying ” Cherchez la femme.