Total nonsense: Dominica PM on Mehul Choksi ‘abduction’

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 2

Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit has rubbished as “total nonsense” the claims that his government was involved in the alleged abduction of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, who is wanted in India in the Rs 13,5000-crore PNB Bank fraud case, from neighbouring Antigua and Barbuda, local media reported.

In his weekly programme, Skerrit noted that his government “would allow the court to carry out its process regarding Choksi” and gave the assurance that his rights and obligations would be respected, Dominica News Online said in a report.

Skerrit refuted the allegations of a plot between the Indian and Dominican Governments to kidnap Choksi from the neighbouring Caribbean country, where he was staying since 2018 as a citizen after fleeing India, and bring him to Dominica, the media house reported.