{"id":19188,"date":"2020-06-11T02:03:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2020\/jun\/10\/fugitive-indian-tycoon-vijay-mallya-applies-for-uk-asylum"},"modified":"2020-06-11T02:03:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:03:47","slug":"fugitive-indian-tycoon-vijay-mallya-applies-for-uk-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19188","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya applies for UK asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman seeks to avoid extradition to India to face allegations of \u00a31bn fraud<\/p>\n<p>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 \u00a31bn fraud at his defunct Kingfisher Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/04\/uk-home-secretary-approves-extradition-of-vijay-mallya-to-india\">ordered <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/04\/uk-home-secretary-approves-extradition-of-vijay-mallya-to-india\">the multimillionaire\u2019s extradition<\/a> in February 2019 saying he was \u201caccused in India of conspiracy to defraud, making false representations and money-laundering offences\u201d. But Mallya, who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2017\/apr\/21\/vijay-mallya-herts-villagers-billionaire-neighbour-india-tycoon\">lives in an \u00a311.5m mansion in the <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2017\/apr\/21\/vijay-mallya-herts-villagers-billionaire-neighbour-india-tycoon\">Hertfordshire village of Tewin<\/a>,&nbsp;delayed the process via appeals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2020\/jun\/10\/fugitive-indian-tycoon-vijay-mallya-applies-for-uk-asylum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman seeks to avoid extradition to India to face allegations of \u00a31bn fraudThe 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 \u00a31bn fraud at his de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,639,62,86,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-extradition","category-india","category-law","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19189,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions\/19189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}