Antigua’s Commissioner of Police, Atlee Rodney, has “categorically” denied claims of any misconduct on the part of a senior police officer surrounding the ongoing investigations involving Mehul Choksi, who is wanted in India on fraud-related charges.
In July 2021, a High Court judge in Dominica granted the India-born Antigua and Barbuda citizen, EC$10,000 (one EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) bail to allow him to travel to St. John’s for medical treatment.
Choksi, 64, had pleaded not guilty to the charge of illegally entering Dominica in late May 2021 claiming he had been kidnapped in Antigua and taken to Roseau on May 23.
Choksi is wanted by the Indian judicial authorities for criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating and dishonesty, including delivery of property, corruption, and money laundering.
The statement by the commissioner of police denying the claims of misconduct in the investigations follows the publication of an article in the Economist Times of India on January 13, written by an internet blogger, Kenneth Rijock, in which certain allegations against a senior member of the police force and a magistrate had been made.
“It is most unfortunate that Mr. Kenneth Rijock, on his Internet blog, made several false statements, concerning the Antigua and Barbuda Police Force in relation to Mr. Mehul Choksi without ascertaining the facts,” said Rodney.
“The entire blog is false with inadequate or no research of the facts and has a malicious purpose and ought not to...
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