Fugitive Liquor Businessman Vijay Mallya Appears Before UK Court Over Extradition Case
Mumbai: Fugitive liquor business tycoon Vijay Mallya arrived at the UK High Court as he seeks permission to appeal against an extradition order.
The extradition order was signed off by UK home secretary Sajid Javid for him to be extradited to India to face alleged fraud and money laundering charges amounting to Rs 9,000 crores.
He has already lost a “leave to appeal” to the UK High Court, which will be able to get an oral hearing of his renewal application this week.
The 63-year-old Kingfisher Airlines owner said that he was feeling “positive” as soon as he entered the Royal Court of Justice. He has already lost a “leave to appeal” to the UK High Court, which will be able to get an oral hearing of his renewal application this week.
A two-judge bench of the Administrative Court division of the Royal Courts of Justice in London will hear the application, filed in April.
During the day-long hearings listed before Justice George Leggatt and Andrew Poplawl, Mallya’s legal team and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), arguing on behalf of the Government of India – head for a reunion against the extradition of the businessman and against him. Will go. Arthur Road Jail of Mumbai. The judges are likely to secure their verdict in the case and make their decision in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, Mallya’s counsel Montgomery argued against Judge Arbuthnots’ ruling that Kingfisher Airline and Mallya misrepresented the company’s financial situation to the consortium of banks, saying that her client made the company’s financial position abundantly clear.
“The government of India supplied documents late. By then the magistrate has already given its decision. The other point the judge makes is the assumption is that all the documents that are available to the court are not correct,” she argued.
Meanwhile, Mallya has continued a series of intervention on social media to offer “100 percent payback” to state-owned Indian banks to cover the debt of its owned Kingfisher Airlines. He is on bail on extradition warrants executed by Scotland Yard in April 2017, including a bail bond of 650,000 pounds and other restrictions on his travels.
Montgomery also argued saying that the case by the Indian government was moved to a different case. “You cannot ask someone for one offence and then say that you will be charged for another offence.”
In reply to this, one of the judge said extradition request is irrelevant not the offences.
Mallay was present here with his son Sidharth and his girlfriend former Kingfisher Airline hostess Pinki Lalwani.
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