Mehul Choksi, the fugitive Indian diamond businessman wanted in the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank loan fraud should be deported to India, the Dominican government told a country's court on Wednesday. The matter has been adjourned till Thursday, June 3.
Dominica's Leader of the Opposition Lennox Linton on June 2 clarified the allegations against taking bribery from Mehul Choksi's brother Chetan Choksi.
Even as a private jet from Qatar landed in Dominica with documents related to fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, wanted in the PNB loan fraud case, sources on Tuesday said members of the Central Bureau of Investigation, Enforcement Directorate and Ministry of External Affairs are camping in the island nation.
Fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi might have taken his girlfriend on a romantic trip to Dominica where he was caught, Antigua News Room quoted Prime Minister Gaston Browne as saying. He made the sensational claims over the mysterious disappearance of Mehul Choksi from the Carribean region in an interview.
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has confirmed that a private jet from India has arrived at the Douglas-Charles Airport in Dominica.
Choksi enjoys full legal protection in Antigua and it will be time consuming to extradite Choksi to India from there. Antiguan Prime Minister Gaston Browne has told ANI in an interview that Choksi will not be allowed to enter back in Antigua for where Choksi fled and illegally sneaked into Dominica and was caught.
A court in Dominica has "restrained" authorities from removing fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi from the Caribbean island country till further orders, local media reported.
Roseau, Dominica, Jul 12: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni might be content with it but off-spinner Harbhajan Singh finds it incomprehensible that West Indies managed to force a draw in the third and final Test.
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