The fugitive diamantaire and multi-crore scam accused Mehul Choksi was shifted to a government quarantine facility. The 62-year-old was admitted to a hospital in Dominica’s capital city Roseau after his health deteriorate, according to the local media reports.

The Indian-origin scam accused had now been a patient at the Dominica China Friendship Hospital. As per the reports say, Choksi admitted at the Imray Wade of the Dominica China Friendship Hospital under heavy police security in a private room. This information was received shortly after Choksi’s first picture emerged in three years, showing him behind bars and with injuries on his hands and a swollen and bruised left eye. After the pictures were released by the Antigua Newsroom his lawyers have alleged an abduction attempt from Jolly Harbour in Antigua and Barbuda by Indian and Antiguan officials. While on the legal front, a Dominican court has extended till June 2 its order restraining the extradition of Choksi from Dominica. After Choksi mysteriously disappeared from Antigua last Sunday, a political storm was sparked in Antigua where he is a citizen.

Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are wanted criminals in India for allegedly siphoning off ₹13,500 crore of public money from the state-run Punjab National Bank using letters of undertaking.

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