Mehul Choksi claims he was abducted, taken to Dominica to be interviewed by ‘Indian politician’

Fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi has claimed that he was abducted and taken to Dominica to give an interview to a “high-ranking Indian politician”, reported NDTV on Tuesday.

In a five-page complaint filed with the Antigua police on June 2, Choksi also claimed that a woman he has known for a year, Barbara Jabarica, helped his abductors.

Choksi, 62, who is wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate in India in connection with the Rs 13,000-crore Punjab National Bank fraud case, was caught in Dominica on May 26 after he allegedly fled Antigua and Barbuda. He was reportedly trying to flee to Cuba. Choksi has been in judicial custody in Dominica since May 24 and charged with illegally entering the country.

In his complaint, Choksi said that on May 23, Jabarica asked him to pick her up from her house and he reached there at 5.15 pm. Eight to men then beat him up, he alleged. “During this entire ordeal, Jabarica did not even attempt to help me or assist in any way by calling for help from outside,” he claimed. “In fact the manner in which she conducted herself by not helping me and her subsequent lack of initiative in contacting the police clearly shows that she was…

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