Fugitive Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya applies for UK asylum
Businessman seeks to avoid extradition to India to face allegations of £1bn fraud
The Indian businessman Vijay Mallya is understood to have applied for asylum in the UK in order to avoid extradition to India to face allegations of a £1bn fraud at his defunct Kingfisher Airlines.
The UK government ordered the multimillionaire’s extradition in February 2019 saying he was “accused in India of conspiracy to defraud, making false representations and money-laundering offences”. But Mallya, who lives in an £11.5m mansion in the Hertfordshire village of Tewin, delayed the process via appeals.