Fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya claimed on Sunday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement confirming the seizure of Rs 14,000 crore worth of his assets had vindicated his claim of being a “poster boy” for the BJP-led government.
In his characteristic style of issuing statements through social media, the 62-year-old said that by Modi’s own assertion the value of his confiscated assets was higher than the alleged Rs 9,000-crore bank fraud he is accused of.
Mallya is contesting a British court’s order clearing his extradition to India on bank-fraud and money-laundering charges.
