A special envoy to Britain ‘plotted’ the kidnap of a diamond tycoon in the Caribbean at the behest of the Indian state.
Gurdip Bath, who has been pictured with King Charles, allegedly hatched the extraordinary plan on British soil.
India-born Mr. Bath, who lives in an £8 million Mayfair mansion near the Ritz, is accused of flying with a gang from London to Antigua to abduct Mehul Choksi as part of a honeytrap on Delhi’s orders, according to a court claim in Antigua and Barbuda.
Mr Bath – who has citizenship of St Kitts and Nevis and has acted as its commercial attaché to the UK for 11 years – strongly denies involvement.
He and his alleged associates are accused of deploying glamorous London-based property consultant Barbara Jarabik to lure Mr Choksi to an apartment near his home in Antigua. There, he was pounced on by thugs claiming to be police, according to the court claim filed by Mr Choski.
The jewelry dealer, 64, says he was beaten, tasered, bound to a wheelchair, and loaded onto a yacht bound for Dominica.
