Mehul Choksi’s brother met Dominica opposition chief, promised to donate for polls: Report
Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi’s elder brother Chetan Chinu Bhai Choksi had met the Leader of Opposition of Dominica, Lennox Linton, and agreed on a deal that in change for token cash and promise of election donation, the opposition chief will press Choksi’s matter within the Parliament, Associate Times, a information outlet primarily based within the Caribbean island nation, reported on Tuesday.
The information outlet claimed that Chetan had landed in Dominica on May 29 on a personal jet and met Linton in Marigot the subsequent day.
It claimed that the assembly between the 2 males lasted for two hours at Linton’s dwelling, the place they mentioned a number of facets associated to Choksi’s arrest and “agreed on the commitment that in exchange for token money and promise of election donation, the opposition leader will press the matter in the Parliament”.
The report additional stated that Choksi’s brother acquired into an settlement with the Dominican opposition chief and promised him election funding for pushing the kidnapping idea.
The information outlet additionally claimed that Chetan disclosed throughout the dialog that Choksi had reached Dominica on his personal, however they required the help of the opposition to sort out the matter in court docket and towards the Dominica authorities to make them consider that he was kidnapped by Antiguan and Indian police.
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, sparking an enormous manhunt. He was captured in Dominica on May 27.
A Dominica court docket has restrained the deportation of Choksi till additional orders whereas listening to the habeas corpus filed by his attorneys. The court docket will subsequent hear the matter on Wednesday.
Earlier, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne and the prime opposition get together within the island nation, UPP, had locked horns over the difficulty of deporting the fugitive diamantaire to India.
Choksi is needed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in reference to the PNB mortgage fraud case.
An eight-member workforce of the CBI, ED, MEA and CRPF has been tenting in Dominica since Saturday. The workforce is there with the paperwork associated to case of Choksi.
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