A Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court has allowed banks to sell certain real estate assets and securities and of fugitive business tycoon Vijay Mallya to recover their debts.
A consortium of 11 banks led by the State Bank of India (SBI) has sought restoration of Mallya’s properties seized by the ED, estimating a loss of over Rs 6,200 crore due to his bad loans.
“PMLA court has given permission to banks to sell certain real estate properties and securities belonged to disgraced tycoon Vijay Mallya to recover dues loan amount of over Rs 5,600 crore. It was earlier under ED. Now the lead bank will sell those properties. PNB doesn’t have much loan exposure in Kingfisher, but we will get our due share whatever once lead bank realize,” said the Punjab National Bank MD.
“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 ₹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.
The 65-year-old 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.
