Relief to Mehul Choksi as Dominica drops illegal entry charges against him

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ In a relief to Punjab National Bank scam accused diamantaire Mehul Choksi, the Dominica government has dropped “all charges” related to his mysterious unlawful entry from Antigua and Barbuda in May last year, according to his spokesperson from London.

Choksi was taken into custody in Dominica, the Caribbean island country, in May last year after he went missing from Antigua and Barbuda where he had taken citizenship before allegedly escaping from India to avoid charges of orchestrating Rs 13,500 crore scam in Punjab National Bank in which his nephew Nirav Modi is a co-accused. He was left on bail after 51 days by the Dominica high court there.

 During the period, India made desperate attempts to bring him back with a Central Bureau of Investigation team stationed there with a private jet. His lawyers however had alleged that he was abducted from Antigua by ‘Indian looking men’ who had brought him to Dominica. All the proceedings against Choksi of illegal entry into Dominica were dropped on May 20, the spokesperson said.