Dominica: A non-public jet of the Indian authorities has landed in Dominica on Sunday morning and speculations are rife that the fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi might be quickly introduced again to India.
Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne stated {that a} personal jet at the moment on the Douglas-Charles Airport in Dominica is from India.
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Choksi, who had lately fled from Antigua and Barbuda, was captured in neighbouring Dominica after an Interpol Yellow Notice was issued in opposition to him.
A High Court of Dominica has ‘restrained’ the extradition of fugitive businessman till additional or different listening to of this utility is sustained till the additional listening to of this matter.
The subsequent listening to of the case is scheduled for June 2.
The court docket’s resolution got here on Friday whereas it was listening to a habeas corpus plea filed by Choksi’s attorneys.
On Saturday,a neighborhood media outlet launched two pictures of fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi whereas within the custody of the police in Dominica. The pictures, launched by Chowksi’s lawyer to media, present him behind bars, his eye swollen and arm severely bruised.
The photographs have surfaced two days after the fugitive diamantaire’s lawyer claimed that he was “forcefully picked up by varied folks” from Antigua’s Jolly Harbour and taken to Dominica, where he may have been “tortured”. His lawyer Vijay Aggarwal had stated the 62-year-old businessman has wounds on his physique.
Choksi, who is needed in India by the CBI and the ED for the Rs 13,500 crore PNB mortgage fraud case, went lacking from Antigua and Barbuda on Sunday, sparking an enormous manhunt. He was captured in Dominica on Wednesday.
After Choksi was detained, Antigua refused to take him again and Prime Minister Gaston Browne instructed information company ANI that the nation was in talks with the Dominican in addition to Indian governments for his repatriation to India.
Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi allegedly siphoned off the big public cash from the state-run financial institution utilizing fraudulent letters of enterprise.
