Jun 02, 2021, 22:06 PM IST
New Delhi: Amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the Indian-born fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi and demands for his extradition, his wife Priti Choksi on Wednesday (June 2) said the woman who is rumoured to be his girlfriend is known to her husband and to his other acquaintances. The woman was known to my husband and to his other acquaintances. She walked with my husband periodically when she was visiting Antigua. From what I have understood from people who have met her, the woman shown on media channels is not the same woman that they knew as Barbara, Priti Choksi told ANI.
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Jun 02, 2021, 07:05 AM IST
New Delhi: Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi s elder brother Chetan Chinu Bhai Choksi met the Dominican Leader of Opposition, Lennox Linton, and promised to donate for polls in exchange for pressing the matter in the parliament, a report claimed on Tuesday (June 1, 2021).
An IANS report also claimed that Mehul Choksi s elder brother had landed in Dominica on May 29 and met Lennox Linton in Marigot on May 30 for two hours at the latter s house. They discussed several aspects related to Choksi s arrest and also reportedly agreed on the commitment that in exchange for token money and promise of election donation, the opposition leader will press the matter in the Parliament .
The government of Dominica has told the country's high court that Mehul Choksi has to be deported to India. It added that his petition is not maintainable and hence it should not be heard. The court has adjourned the matter till tomorrow.