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Vijay Mallya extradition: Britain will extend ‘all help’ to India, say sources


Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, May 04, 2017: Britain has said it will “extend all help” to extradite embattled industrialist Vijay Mallya to India, government sources said on Thursday.


mallyaOfficials of the two countries discussed all pending extradition cases at a meeting in New Delhi earlier in the day.

Britain agreed to help India in 10 such cases, a senior home ministry official said. New Delhi assured support in extraditing 11 fugitives Britain seeks.

The sources said India and Britain will sign a memorandum of understanding in July on security cooperation and extradition.

The 61-year-old Mallya, who called himself “The King of Good Times”, is wanted in India for alleged financial irregularities such a loan defaults and money laundering..

Last month, Scotland Yard arrested the fugitive liquor baron and a London court granted him bail within hours.

Mallya left India for Britain on March 2 last year after a consortium of 17 banks accused him of defaulting on more than Rs 9,000 crores, mostly loans taken for his now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines.

Since Mallya’s extradition case is being heard by a British court, the government can only extend its support to India. It cannot issue an order for the extradition of the flamboyant businessman.


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