MEHUL CHOKSI'S UNITED KINGDOM CIVIL SUIT AGAINST THE ALLEGED KIDNAPPING CREW, DISMISSED

 

If you were wondering what became of that civil suit that the fugitive diamond fraudster MEHUL CHOKSI, filed in the United Kingdom in 2024, against the Government of India and the crew that Choksi alleged was involved in his failed kidnapping from Antigua, it has been dismissed by agreement of the parties. You may re all that the Court ordered that the Claimant, a non-resident, to comply with an order requiring him to remit to the Court a substantial cost deposit, which we reported here:  WILL CHOKSKI'S UK CIVIL SUIT AGAINST INDIA BE DISMISSED FOR HIS FAILURE TO TIMELY PAY THE £677,000 COST DEPOSIT?  According to the text of the stipulated Consent, which is the grounds for the Dismissal, he failed to pay that sum into the Court Registry. The Order appears above.

Choksi, having failed in his opposition to extradition from Belgium, where he was detained on the authority of a warrant issued by the Government of India, is awaiting removal to his native country for trial. Choksi has been charged with obtaining the equivalent of USD$2bn in bank loans through fraud, and other crimes and offenses. His flight to Antigua, where he had secured a CIP passport notwithstanding being under criminal investigation, exposed the bogus nature of the country's Due Diligence investigation process. The scandal was made worse when Choksi, with obvious Antiguan government collusion, was able to evade extradition for several years, using the country's corrupt court system to delay matters indefinitely.

We are looking forward to seeing that justice will finally be done in the Choksi case, after an extensive delay which he created, in a futile effort to avoid justice in the courts of India.