Vijay Mallya gifted $40 million to his children, funnelled Rs 3200 crore overseas:
ED’s dossier
In its dossier, the ED has also made a case
against KFA and Mallya regarding the sale of a land of 264 acres in
Coorg, the proceeds of which have been laundered overseas
According
to the ED, of the Rs 3,200 crore claiming to be expenses for the
airline’s operational expenses, about Rs 1500 crore were allegedly remitted overseas through letter of credit and other instruments issued
by State Bank of India (SBI), Rs 531 crore through Punjab National Bank
(PNB), and about Rs 1230 crore through Axis Bank.
Separately, the end-use of funds of the Rs 950 crore loan IDBI Bank gave KFA in 2009 is under question.
According
to ED’s money trail analysis, Rs 423 crore of the IDBI Bank loan has
been remitted overseas without appropriate supporting documents.
The
ED has also questioned the IDBI Bank’s lack of due diligence in
sanctioning the loan and accepting the valuation of Rs 3400 crore of the
Kingfisher Brand done by Grant Thornton without verification.
“The
brand valuation is done by Grant Thornton also varied much in the three
reports submitted by them at different points of time to KFA,” the
source, quoted earlier, said.
Mallya, under pressure from banks to
repay Rs 9,000 crore loans owed by his grounded Kingfisher Airlines,
left India on March 2 last year, was arrested in London on Tuesday.
He
was later released on bail.
The ED has also made a case alleging
that Mallya received USD 40 million (out of an agreed USD 75 million) on
February 25, 2016, from London-based liquor major Diageo Plc, barely a
week before he left India.
According to ED, the transaction was
structured in a manner to receive the payments overseas with the intent
of keeping this money out of reach of India.
In November, Mallya’s
lawyers told the Supreme Court that the USD 40 million has been
transferred to his three children through gift settlements.
In an
affidavit submitted before the apex court, he stated that the money had
been transferred to his three children—Siddharth, Leena and Tanya
Mallya—who were US citizens and sole beneficiaries of the three
respective trusts of which he had no control in his individual capacity.
Mallya
had received a payment of USD 40 million out of a USD 75 million
package from Diageo following his resignation as chairman of United
Spirits Ltd.
The ED has also made a case of money laundering
against KFA and Mallya regarding the sale of a land of 264 acres in
Coorg in January, the proceeds of which have been laundered overseas
According
to ED investigations, Endeavour Estates Pvt Ltd owned 291.31 acres of
land in Biligeri village, Coorg. Of this 264 acres of land were sold in
January last year. One of the directors of Endeavour Estates Pvt Ltd
have given a statement to ED stating that the company and the assets
belong to the UB Group, controlled by Mallya, sources said
The ED
is also pressing money laundering charges involving transactions among
companies such as Pharma Trading, Kingfisher Finvest, Devi Investment
Pvt Ltd, Mallya Investment Pvt Ltd, Gem Investment and Trading among
others
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