Illegal entry case withdrawn against fugitive Mehul Choksi in Dominica

Caribbean island nation Dominica has dropped the illegal entry charge against fugitive businessman  Mehul Choksi, news agency ANI reported on May 21.

Choksi, who had gone missing from Antigua on May 23, 2021, was caught in Dominica last year and  was charged with illegal entry by the police.

"'Mehul Chinubhai Choksi' was charged, for that he, on the 24th day of May 2021 at Toucarie Bay, Toucarie in the Parish of St John, in the Commonwealth of Dominica, did enter illegally into the Commonwealth of Dominica at a place to wit Toucarie Bay, Toucarie' not approved as a point of entry," the  Director of Public Prosecutions (AG) said in a reply filed on May 17, 2022, to the Magistrate Court.

The reply of the Director of Prosecutions further stated that "in accordance with the provisions of Section 72(2) (c) of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Dominica, I do hereby discontinue the above-mentioned proceedings against the said, Mehul Chinu bhai Choksi."