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Stage set for Mallya expulsion from Parliament
Industrialist Vijay Mallya is on the verge of being expelled as Member of Parliament. He has been given a week to furnish his defence to the Ethics Committee of the Rajya Sabha. His membership is \"all but gone\", said Sharad Yadav, one of the members of the committee.
​New Delhi: Industrialist Vijay Mallya is on the verge of being expelled as Member of Parliament. He has been given a week to furnish his defence to the Ethics Committee of the Rajya Sabha. His membership is "all but gone", said Sharad Yadav, one of the members of the committee.
Mallya has ignored a series of orders to return home from the UK to face banks to which his defunct Kingfisher Airlines owes nearly a billion dollars. Over the weekend, his passport was revoked and an arrest warrant had been issued for him by a Mumbai court.
The 60-year-old flamboyant liquor baron has, on Twitter, denied that he is absconding and cited his status as a Member of Parliament to emphasise that he would follow all laws. However, Mallya has defied three messages from the Enforcement Directorate asking him to meet with investigators in Mumbai about a 900-crore loan issued to his airline in 2009.
The financial crime-fighting agency says Mallya had siphoned off half that money to buy properties abroad. He has denied that in the Supreme Court, where 18 banks, most of them state-run, have asked judges to enforce the law against "a wilful defaulter".
The government has said it is seeking Mallya's deportation from the UK to face charges of money laundering and financial irregularities.
The Ethics Committee meets next on May 3 and after reviewing Mallya's defence, it will forward its recommendation for the review of the Rajya Sabha, to which the entrepreneur was nominated in 2010.
