Mehul Choksi has issued an affidavit to the Dominican Supreme Court stating that he is a “law abiding” citizen and will not leave the country if he is allowed to return to Antigua and Barbuda.
The fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi will be driven to the district court in Roseau, Dominica on June 2, 2021 (Photo: PTI)
HIGHLIGHTS
- Dominican HC heard Mehul Choksi’s bail demand on June 14th
- Choksi says he should be allowed to return to Antigua and Barbuda
- Mehul Choksi had made similar claims in an affidavit filed with Bombay HC in 2019
Mehul Choksi has claimed in an affidavit filed in the Dominican High Court that he is a “law abiding citizen” and will not flee Dominica. Choksi lived in Antigua and Barbuda prior to his arrest in Dominica last month.
The fugitive diamond dealer wanted in connection with the Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud relocated the Dominica High Court after the Magistrate Court dismissed his bail demand. The plea was rejected on the grounds that Mehul Choksi was a risk of escape because he had no connection to Dominica.
In the affidavit now filed in the Dominican High Court, Choksi says he should be allowed to return Antigua, where extradition proceedings are taking place is on the way.
In his affidavit, Mehul Choksi also alleged that he invited Indian agencies investigating the PNB fraud to question him. Choksi had made similar claims in an affidavit filed with the Bombay High Court in 2019.
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Mehul Choksi had fled India days before his appointment by the CBI in January 2018.
He went even further and stated in the affidavit that Investigative authorities in India had not registered a case sued against him until 2018. I left India to go to the United States for medical treatment, claimed Choksi in the affidavit filed in the Dominica High Court.
Interestingly, the medical condition mentioned on the affidavit is the same as it was on the 2019 submission to the Bombay HC.
Sources told India Today that Mehul Choksi was in the United States until May 2018, after which he went to Antigua and Barbuda.
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