Vijay Mallya Makes Another Offer Of 100% Loan Payback
Mallya took to Twitter to repeat his 100 percent loan payback offer to the public sector banks in India.
Embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, whose social media interventions against the Indian government are a regular occurrence, took to Twitter once again to repeat his 100 percent loan payback offer to the public sector banks in India.
The 63-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss, fighting extradition to India in relation of fraud and money laundering allegations arising out of the debt acquired from the banks, quoted finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Lok Sabha statement from last week in his latest offer.
“In this spirit please accept my 100 percent settlement offer,” he tweeted.
In the wake of the death of Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha, Sitharaman made the statement while responding to the debate on the amendments to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code in the Lok Sabha last Thursday.
Mallya had previously taken to Twitter to draw parallels between his situation and that of Siddhartha, who had purportedly written a suicide note that pointed to harassment by the Income Tax Department before his body was found near a river on the outskirts of Mangalore.
Mallya remains on bail pending his U.K. High Court appeal, now scheduled for February 2020, in the extradition proceedings brought by India in relation to charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to an alleged Rs 9,000 crore.