Dismissing his appeal against the 2018 order to extradite him to India, a UK High Court on Monday refused to grant any relief to embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya. This brings him a step closer to be prosecuted back home on charges of money laundering and criminal conspiracy.
Rejecting the grounds cited by Mallya’s attorney, Claire Montgomery, the court upheld special district judge (SDJ) Arbuthnot’s judgement, the court observed “ We consider that while the scope of the prima facie case found by the SDJ is in some respects wider than that alleged by the respondent in India, there is a prima facie case which, in seven important respects, coincides with the allegations in India”
