Antigua police probing Choksi’s ‘abduction’ claim

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ The Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has started investigations into the alleged abduction of absconding diamantaire Mehul Choksi to neighbouring Dominica on a complaint filed by his lawyers, Prime Minister Gaston Browne told a local media outlet.           

Browne said that Choksi’s lawyers gave the names of people involved in the alleged abduction to the police commissioner in a complaint. The Antigua and Barbuda prime minister also said that if the claims are true, then it is a serious matter.  

Browne said police are taking the complaint seriously, the report said. “Choksi has filed a complaint with the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda to the extant that he was abducted. He made a formal claim through his attorneys that he was abducted from Antigua and taken to Dominica so it is a report that police is taking seriously and they are currently investigating the abduction,” Browne said.