Mehul Choksi's Legal Team In London Approaches Metropolitan Police

Lawyer Michael Polak said English courts and British Police have "universal jurisdiction" to probe such cases wherever they take place.

The legal team of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi in London has approached the Metropolitan Police under the "universal jurisdiction" provision to investigate his alleged kidnapping from Antigua and Barbuda to neighbouring Dominica, lawyer Michael Polak said. Mr Polak said Choksi was removed from Antigua and Barbuda, where as a citizen he enjoys rights to approach the British Privy Council as last resort in cases on his citizenship and extradition, to Dominica where these rights are not available to him. He said English courts and British Police have "universal jurisdiction" to probe such cases wherever they take place. In a media interaction through video conferencing, Mr Polak who is part of Choksi's defence team said Metropolitan Police has a unit to investigate torture, war crimes and genocide wherever they take place.