Millionaire Bailed For Medical Treatment After Caribbean Kidnap, Torture Claim

A millionaire diamond magnate who claimed he was kidnapped and tortured has returned to Antigua and Barbuda for health care cure soon after becoming granted bail by Dominican authorities.

Mehul Choksi, 62, returned to Antigua before this 7 days following currently being held in the island country since May perhaps soon after the Dominican Superior Court dominated he could not get suitable healthcare care there, according to the Indian Express.

The end result is a victory for Choksi’s lawful team who reported their customer had been kidnapped from Antigua and tortured and experienced been forcefully whisked away to Dominica the place he could be extradited to India, the nation of his beginning, where he is preferred in excess of his alleged component in a $1.8 billion financial institution fraud case.

Law firm Michael Polak, of the authorized team Justice Abroad, explained Choksi had faced an ordeal that experienced “a detrimental influence on him physically.”

Mr. Polak instructed Newsweek: “We are very delighted that the Dominican Court docket has created the principled and humanitarian final decision to release Mr. Choksi so that he can access specialist health care care in Antigua.

“Mr. Choksi has been by way of a very difficult couple months and has been subject to an ordeal which has experienced a detrimental outcome on him bodily. It is the right end result that he be able to return to Antigua, wherever he can accessibility the healthcare notice that he needs to be with his household.”

The millionaire, who attained Antiguan citizenship in November 2017, in advance of he was needed by Indian authorities, renounced his Indian citizenship in July 2018.

He experienced been embroiled in a legal struggle in Antigua where by authorities proposed to take out his citizenship in October 2019.

But, Mr. Polak claimed Choksi was abducted by a London-primarily based group with the aim of extraditing him to India, by taking him to Dominica.

In accordance to the Indian Specific, just after Choksi was arrested in Dominica, a jet carrying brokers from India’s Central Bureau of Investigation touched down in Dominica in hopes of returning him to India.

The outlet added, having said that, that Choksi’s situation experienced arrived at the Dominican courts on grounds of illegal entry, forcing the jet to make its very long return.

In a assertion offered to his attorneys right before becoming passed on to Newsweek, Choksi stated he experienced been compelled onto a boat and was tortured through his journey.

Mr. Polak previously advised Newsweek that when Choksi arrived in Dominica, he was held in a 20-square-foot mobile and had nothing at all within, like no mattress for him to rest.

Newsweek has contacted the governments of Antigua and the Commonwealth of Dominica for comment.