There was, however, no immediate official confirmation from Indian authorities about it.
New Delhi: A Qatar Executive business jet has flown from Delhi to Dominica and landed early on Saturday morning (local time) in the Caribbean archipelago, where India’s most wanted Mehul Choksi currently is.
India sent a private jet to Dominica carrying documents related to the deportation of fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, wanted in a Rs 13,500 crore bank loan fraud case, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne told a radio show in his country.
There was, however, no immediate official confirmation from Indian authorities about it.
Browne told the radio show that the jet came from India carrying necessary documentation needed for deportation of the businessman, the media outlet reported.
The Qatar Executive Bombardier Global 5000 (AE-CEE) took off from its base Doha and reached Delhi at 3.12 am on May 27. Then about a day later it took off from here for Douglas-Charles Airport in Dominica via Madrid Barajas Airport where it reached after a nearly 20-hour journey.
The Dominica High Court has stayed the removal of Choksi from its soil and put a gag order on the developments till the matter is heard in an open court on June 2.
Choksi has alleged that he was abducted from Jolly Harbour in Antigua and Barbuda by policemen looking like Antiguan and Indian and taken to Dominica.
Purported pictures of 62-year-old Choksi that have surfaced in Dominica show him with a red swollen eye and bruises on his hands.
Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are wanted for allegedly siphoning Rs 13,500 crore of public money from the state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB) using letters of undertaking.
While Modi is in a London prison after being repeatedly denied bail and is contesting his extradition to India, Choksi took citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda in 2017 using the Citizenship by Investment programme before fleeing India in the first week of January 2018. The scam came to light subsequently.
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