Choksi could have taken his girlfriend to Dominica for dinner: Antigua and Barbuda PM

Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi could have left his sanctuary in Antigua and brought a ship experience to neighbouring Dominica to have dinner or a “good time” together with his girlfriend, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne stated.
He stated that Government of 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.
“The information that we are getting is that Mehul Choksi may have taken his girlfriend to Dominica probably to have dinner or have a good time and so on and got caught. That would have been a monumental error because in Antigua he is a citizen, we could not deport him…,” he stated in an interview to an area radio station as reported by Antigua News Room.
“The problem is if he is sent back to Antigua because he is an Antiguan citizen, even though his citizenship is unsettled, he still enjoys constitutional and legal protections. We have no doubt that his citizenship will ultimately be revoked because he did not disclose material information,” Browne stated.
India appears to have noticed a window of alternative in Choksi’s arrest in Dominica the place he was “detained” for unlawful entry.
A Qatar Airways personal jet landed on the Douglas-Charles airport in Dominica, Antigua News Room reported, resulting in hypothesis concerning the deportation of Choksi who was detained within the Caribbean island nation after his mysterious disappearance from Antigua and Barbuda.
Browne instructed the radio present that the jet got here from India carrying mandatory documentation wanted for deportation of the businessman, the media outlet reported.
There was, nonetheless, no fast official affirmation from Indian authorities about it.
Publicly obtainable information of Qatar Executive flight A7CEE reveals that it left the Delhi airport at 3.44 am on May 28 and reached Dominica at 1.16 pm native time on the identical day, by way of Madrid.
The Dominica High Court has stayed the removing of Choksi from its soil and put a gag order on the developments until the matter is heard in an open court docket on June 2.

Choksi has alleged that he was kidnapped from Jolly Harbour in Antigua and Barbuda by Antiguan and Indian trying policemen and was taken to Dominica.
Pictures, purportedly of 62-year-old Choksi, surfaced in Dominica exhibiting him with a crimson, swollen eye and bruises on his fingers.
Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are needed for allegedly siphoning Rs 13,500 crore of public cash from the state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB) utilizing letters of enterprise. Both are going through a CBI and ED probe.
While Modi is in a London jail after being repeatedly denied bail and is contesting his extradition to India, Choksi took the citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda in 2017 utilizing the Citizenship by Investment programme earlier than fleeing India within the first week of January 2018.
The rip-off got here to mild subsequently.