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India has been urgent the U.{K}. to extradite Mallya after he misplaced his appeals within the British Supreme Court in May in opposition to his extradition to face cash laundering and fraud prices.
The U.{K}. has conveyed to India that fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya can’t be extradited until the decision of a “secret legal” matter, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated on Thursday.
India has been urgent the U.{K}. to extradite Mallya after he misplaced his appeals within the British Supreme Court in May in opposition to his extradition to face cash laundering and fraud prices.
“Now, we have been told that there is a secret legal matter and that his extradition cannot take place without its resolution… We are in touch with the U.K. government,” MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava stated at a media briefing.
He stated New Delhi has been in fixed contact with the U.{K}. authorities after Mallya exhausted all legal cures. The U.{K}. prime court docket’s determination marked a significant setback to the 64-year-old businessman because it got here weeks after he misplaced his excessive court docket attraction in April in opposition to an extradition order to India.
In June, India urged the U.{K}. to not think about any request for asylum by Mallya as there gave the impression to be no floor for his persecution within the nation.
The U.{K}. authorities had indicated that Mallya is unlikely to be extradited to India anytime quickly, saying there’s a legal subject that wanted to be resolved earlier than his extradition could be organized.
Mallya has been primarily based within the U.{K}. since March 2016 and stays on bail on an extradition warrant executed three years in the past by Scotland Yard on April 18, 2017.
The High Court verdict in April upheld the 2018 ruling by Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot on the finish of a year-long extradition trial in December 2018 that the previous Kingfisher Airlines boss had a “case to answer” within the Indian courts.
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