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Vijay Mallya - Indians Can Keep Dreaming About A Billion Pounds
Vijay Mallya - Indians Can Keep Dreaming About A Billion Pounds
Vijay Mallya - Indians Can Keep Dreaming About A Billion Pounds
Noting December 4 for two-week hearing on the Vijay Mall extradition case, chief
magistrate Enma Arbuthnot said that, .. if there is still no sign of evidence then April
2018 i possibility ( for a full hearing )we have everything, if we have everything, then
it ay look like December..
Watkins said there s a Close relationship with India on the case and the material
received was ..Not insubstantial...
The flamboyant businessman was remanded conditional bail until December 4. July 6
is the next management hearing.
Its the equivalent of Tuesday days hearing, and its when the court will see if all the
Evidence, has been admitted, Mallya has been told he does not have to attend the July
6th , hearing.
Mallya, 61, later told reporters, I deny all allegations that have been made and I will
continue to deny them. Claiming no loans were ever diverted, he said, You can keep
dreaming about a billion pounds; you cannot prove anything without facts.
Ben Watson, acting for Mallya, said: We have not yet received the final evidence from
the government of India. He added that the evidence had been requested
six Weeks ago. This began on January 31 and its now June and we still dont have
the case, he said, pushing for the hearing to be postponed till spring2018.
There has also been a second extradition request which we have not yet seen which
adds to the uncertainty of this, Watson added.
Replying to this, the Crown Prosecution told TOI: There is no second extradition
request. The defence asked about a second request that they believe the Indian
government may submit, but at present there is nothing concrete to consider
' Watson said that Mallya had faced a battle to enter the court building and
cameras were thrust In his face" and requested for physical barriers to be put up at
the next hearing Mallya attended to protect him from the press.
The chief magistrate gave permission for Mallya to not attend the next case
management hearing on July 11 at 2pm.
Dressed in white open neck shirt, flaunting a gold chain, grey trousers, a navy blue
blazer and black shoes, Mallyas tanned face looked stressed and tired and he had
bags under his eyes. He looked alternately at the packed press gallery the judge and
his counsel. He spoke in a confident voice to confirm his name and date of birth.
Despite constantly criticising the Indian media, outside the court room Mallya
couldnot stop himself speaking to them.
Asked how he was, he replied: Cheering for the Indian cricket team to great
controversy Asked, Do you feel confident?" he said, We will see.
Why do you dislike this tribe (the media)?
I am more disliked than anything I dislike or like, he said. Still annoyed about the
boos of chor during the India-South Africa cricket match, he continued
I show up at the cricket match to cheer on my team and it becomes a media
sensation. What can I do? There is no guarantee that anything I say will be reported
the way I say it. The media sensationalises everything, I cant keep repeating myself
everywhere and putting the correct facts forward, so I keep quiet.
He added he would be attending the India-Bangladesh Champions Trophy
semifinal on Thursday
The chairman of UB Group, which brews Kingfisher Beer and is co-owner of the
Sahara Force India Formula One racing team, is accused of defaulting on loans of
more than Rs 9,000 crore after Kingfisher Airlines, which he founded, collapsed in
2012 following years of losses. He is also accused of money laundering, fraudulently
obtaining credit and other financial crimes.
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We received information that Mallya, using his company and associates, laundered a
major chunk of this Rs 6,027 crore loan to several countries. Now we have
established links with shell companies and bank accounts in at least seven countries.
Letters rogatory have already been sent to the,US, the UK, France and Ireland and we
will get complete details soon, the official said.
Sources in the CBI and ED, however maintain that Mallya went about the fraud in a
systematic way.
Vijay Mallya would repay some part of the loan,which allowed him to gain
confidence of the banks, which gave him further loans. In all, he took Rs 6,027 crore in
loans from a consortium of 17 banks, said the official. "
SBI had the maximum exposure of Rs 1,600 crore.
Officials said i the fresh chargesheets having details of systematic money laundering
through shell companies in various countries should beef up the case against Mallya.
A plea for Mallyas extradition from the UK, where he fled on March 2 last year is
being heard on the basis of a Rs 900 crore IDBI Bank loan fraud/ money laundering
case in the court of senior district judge (chief magistrate) Emma Arbuthnot at 81,
Marylebone Road, London.
The CBI and ED plan to share the fresh chargesheets with the UK prosecutors before
December when the final extradition hearing will begin, said sources Other banks,
which gave loans to Kingfisher along with SBI include Punjab National Bank with
an, exposure of Rs 800 crore, Bank of India (Rs 650 crore), Bank of Baroda (Rs 550
crore), Central Bank of India (Rs 410 crore), UCO Bank (Rs 320 crore), Corporation
Bank (Rs 310 crore), State Bank of Mysore (Rs 150 crore), Indian Overseas Bank (Rs
140 crore). Till now Mallya was charged only in the Rs 900 crore IDBI loan case. It
was established in the IDBI case that Mallya laundered around Rs 417 crore out of Rs
900 crore loan by forming a complex Web of companies and nominating directors in
those companies who were either his personal staff, retired company official or third
persons.
A portion of the IDBI loan was reportedly laundered by Mallya to Cayman Islands,
Mauritius, the UK and Switzerland, said sources. As first reported by TOI, Britains
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched a money laundering investigation against
Mallya. The ED has identified property Worth over Rs 11,000 crore belonging to
Mallya and property worth at least Rs 9,000 crore has already been attached under
the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. '
To all Indians
Aaron Watkins, representing India, said the Crown Prosecution Service needed a
further three-four Weeks to receive the rest of the evidence from India and to review
it. Arbuthnot asked, Are Indians normally very prompt in their responses? They have
taken six months so far and We havent got any further forward in the past 6 weeks.
To all Indians
Vijay Mallya escaped India on March 2, 2016 - at 1.30 PM, but Indian people were
informed of his escape from India on 12 March 2016 Wednesday. This was full 10
days after his escape from India. Initially I though he had just left yesterday, but only
by sheer coincidence, I came to know from DNA Magazine that he had left more than
10 days earlier.
Liquor Baron and Wilful defaulter Vijay Mallya did not sneak out of India, using
some fake passport and identity, but rather he carried 7 heavy bags and the same
assistance was provided to him what that is provided to First Class passengers.
Locals in Hertfordshire , north of London, where Mallya has a luxery residence had
confirmed spotting him.