“I did not flee from India and neither am I an absconder ” , Mallya said in a tweet posted on Friday”.
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The self-styled “King of Good Times ” , who built his business around Kingfisher beer and co-owns a Formula 1 racing team, explained to his five million Twitter followers that he travels to and from India frequently, saying he was the target of “a raging fire” media witch hunt”.
The businessman did not mention his location in his tweets, but said that as a member of parliament he would fully comply with the law.
Vijay Mallya is a household name in India, having inherited a large chunk of United Spirits Ltd from his father, which he went on to sell to Diageo in April 2014.
Mallya reportedly left the country 6 days before the apex court issued an order to seize his passport to prevent him leaving India till the recovery operations come to a conclusion. In a veiled threat to the media, he added: “Let media bosses not forget help, favours, accommodation that I have provided over several years which are documented”.
His downfall was triggered by the failure of Kingfisher Airlines, which he launched in 2005.
Sujrewala said the CBI registers an FIR against Vijay Mallya on July 29, 2015.
Enforcement Directorate launched a money laundering case against Vijay Mallya and he reportedly received a payment of 75 million dollars from Diageo Plc to resign as chairman for United spirits ltd.
The founder of the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines is sought in connection with an alleged case of loan fraud involving state-run IDBI Bank in Mumbai, PTI said.
Clarifying his position regarding the loan owed by KFA, Mallya said in a recent statement after the closure of the airline, that since April, 2013, the banks and their assignees have recovered, in cash, an aggregate of Rs 1,244 crores from the sale of pledged shares. “But no trial by media”.
The opposition Congress Party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday accused the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “a criminal conspiracy in letting Mallya fly out of the country”.
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Meanwhile, on Friday, the CBI admitted of an “inadvertent error” , in how its first Lookout Circular against Mallya, issued on October 16 previous year, that had asked immigration authorities to detain Mallya and report the same to the CBI was different from its second circular, which was issued on November 24, asking immigration authorities to merely inform the agency about Mallya’s arrival.
