In a setback to the fugitive liquor baron the United Kingdom High Court rejected Vijay Mallya’s application to appeal to the UK Supreme Court against his extradition to India.
On April 20, the High Court had dismissed his appeal against his extradition order passed by the Senior District Judge (SDJ) at the Westminster Magistrate’s Court in December 2018.
Mallya had left India on March 2, 2016 in the wake of cases registered against him for alleged fraud and money laundering amounting to an estimated Rs 9,000 crore by the ED as well as the Central Bureau of Investigation.
In January 2019, he was declared a Fugitive Economic Offender by the Indian Government under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act 2018
Under this act, a person can be declared a Fugitive Economic Offender if a warrant has been issued against him for an offence involving an amount of Rs 100 crore or more and he has left the country and refuses to return.
