PMLA court allows banks to sell Vijay Mallya's properties to recover Rs 5,600 crore debt

PMLA court allows banks to sell Vijay Mallya's properties to recover Rs 5,600 crore debt

FPJ BureauUpdated: Saturday, June 05, 2021, 11:39 PM IST
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PMLA court allows banks to sell Vijay Mallya's properties to recover Rs 5,600 crore debt | PTI

Mumbai/New Delhi: A Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court has allowed banks to sell certain real estate assets and securities of fugitive business tycoon Vijay Mallya (65) to recover their debts. “The PMLA court has given permission to banks to sell certain real estate properties and securities that belonged to disgraced tycoon Vijay Mallya to recover dues loan amount of over Rs 5,600 crore. It was earlier under the Enforcement Directorate," said Mallikarjuna Rao, managing director, Punjab National Bank.

"Now the lead bank will sell those properties. PNB does not have much loan exposure in Kingfisher, but we will get our due share whatever once lead bank to realize," added Rao. Mallya is accused in a bank loan default case of over Rs 9,000 crore involving his defunct Kingfisher Airlines and is presently in the United Kingdom.

Mallya was declared as a fugitive economic offender in January 2019 by a special court in Mumbai. Mallya has gone through and exhausted the full legal procedures available to him to fight the government's effort to extradite him to India to face charges of defrauding a consortium of banks of more than a billion dollars in relation to the collapse of Kingfisher Airlines in 2013.

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