Person named in Mehul Choksi’s ‘kidnap’ denies any connection with the case

Gurjit Bhandal, one of the persons allegedly named in the “kidnapping” of Mehul Choksi off Antigua and Barbuda on May 23, has denied any connection to the case and claimed that he was on a ferry off the Caribbean island on the morning of May 23. But it was gone. for local media reports. In his complaint to the Antigua police, Choksi has claimed that he was abducted on the evening of May 23, when he had gone to a place where his “friend” Barbara Jabarica, who was also a suspect in the case, was Was living. He has named Gurmeet Singh, Narendra Singh, Jabarika and other unidentified persons for his alleged abduction. Bhandal, who is involved in the property business in the Midlands of the United Kingdom, has claimed that he had gone sailing in the Caribbean with his friend Gurmeet Singh in April-May, website writeup24.com reported. Denying any connection with Choksi’s alleged abduction, Bhandal, an Indian-origin man, said he would “cooperate and assist the police” in the investigation, but Antigua police have yet to contact him. Bhandal told the website in a telephonic interview that on 23 May he and Singh were in Antigua’s English Harbor and left for Dominica after clearing immigration late in the morning. He claimed that he arrived in Dominica at night but cleared the customs the next day.

“We arrived in Dominica on Sunday night, May 23. On the same day, we started from Antigua and cleared the customs the next day on May 24,” he told the website. Choksi has alleged in his complaint that he was picked up from Antigua on the evening of May 23 and taken on a yacht, which took him to the waters of Dominica at around 10 am the next day, where he was handed over to the Coast Guard. . Dominica on the boat. His plan was to sail from Dominica to St Lucia, but Bhandal, who claimed to be a regular sailing fan, said he became “sea sick” on the way and abandoned further sailing plans after reaching Dominica. Bhandal said she and Singh “often sailing together” in the Mediterranean, but this time, they decided to do it in the Caribbean. The website quoted him as saying, “We took a charter from there (Dominica) to Barbados.” Asked about Choksi’s friend Jabarika, who was allegedly involved in the kidnapping plot, Bhandal said he does not know her, but keeps meeting hundreds of people during her flight in the Caribbean. “There were 21 flights to the Caribbean,

But during Covid, now there are only two flights a week, so it increases the chances that we bump into the same people again and again,” he said. In a telephonic interview to the website, Bhandal claimed that he has been sailing with Singh in the region since April, when he stayed for four days in Antigua, one day in Dominica and four days in St. Lucia. In May, they were on their second sailing trip to the area, but they couldn’t book the boat they used on their first voyage, so they booked Calliope of Arne Yachts online. Choksi, wanted in India’s Rs 13,500-crore bank fraud case, had mysteriously gone missing from Antigua and Barbuda on May 23. Where he is residing as a citizen since 2018. Entering after a possible romantic getaway with his rumored girlfriend. Choksi’s lawyers alleged that Antigua and Indian-looking policemen kidnapped him from Antigua’s Jolly Harbor and brought him on a boat to Dominica. .