New Delhi: Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi’s elder brother Chetan Chinu Bhai Choksi met the Dominican Leader of Opposition, Lennox Linton, and promised to donate for polls in change for urgent the matter within the parliament, a report claimed on Tuesday (June 1, 2021).
An IANS report additionally claimed that Mehul Choksi’s elder brother had landed in Dominica on May 29 and met Lennox Linton in Marigot on May 30 for two hours on the latter’s home. They mentioned a number of facets associated to Choksi’s arrest and in addition reportedly agreed on the dedication that in change for token cash and promise of election donation, the opposition chief will ‘press the matter within the Parliament’.
The report acknowledged that Chetan Chinu Bhai Choksi acquired into an settlement with the Dominican opposition chief and promised him election funding for pushing the kidnapping principle. Chetan additionally disclosed in the course of the dialog that Choksi had reached Dominica on his personal, however they required the help of the opposition to deal with the matter in court docket and in opposition to the Dominica authorities to make them consider that he was kidnapped by Antiguan and Indian police.
This is pertinent to word that Mehul Choksi, who is needed in India within the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) mortgage fraud case, went lacking on May 23 from Antigua and was then captured in Dominica 4 days later.
His photos displaying crimson swollen eyes and physique marks had additionally surfaced on social media platforms.
A Dominica court docket has restrained the deportation of Choksi till additional orders whereas listening to the habeas corpus filed by his legal professionals. The court docket is scheduled to hear the matter on Wednesday (June 2).
The Dominican authorities had issued a press release that it’s ascertaining the standing of Choksi’s citizenship with Antigua and as soon as confirmed, he can be deported there.
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne had not too long ago stated that Dominica and regulation enforcement companies except the court docket guidelines in any other case, can deport him to India as a result of he’s an Indian citizen.
Meanwhile, a crew of multi-agency officers led by a CBI DIG has gone to Dominica to carry again Choksi to India if the courts within the Caribbean island nation permit his deportation to India.
(With company inputs)
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