Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Newspaper releases email trail after Vijay Mallya denies interview
In the supposed email interview, Mallya had said it was not the right time for him to return to India.
"I am an Indian to the core. Of course I want to return. But I am not sure I'll get a fair chance to present my side. I've already been branded as criminal. I do not feel the time is right." the newspaper quoted an email, supposedly from Mallya, as saying.
Mallya left India on March 2 and in tweets right after, asserted he is just an 'international businessman' and not an absconder. The liquor baron owes more than Rs 9,000 crores in unpaid loans -- and interest on those loans -- taken for his failed Kingfisher Airlines.
Mallya claimed last night that he never gave the weekend interview to The Sunday Guardian.
"Shocked to see media statements that I gave an interview to Sunday Guardian without verification. I have not given any statement to anyone," Mallya tweeted last night on his official Twitter page.
The newspaper said it stood by its report.
The email trail that the newspaper put online says "Interview for the Sunday Guardian newspaper" in the subject line with an email from the reporter's 'Proton' email account to a 'Proton' account that's supposedly Mallya's.
"Shocked to see Sunday Guardian's claim that I exchanged mails with them from my proton mail account. Have never heard of proton mail before. Sunday Guardian's claim that I wrote to them from my so called proton mail account to the reporters proton mail account is a total fake," Mallya tweeted on his official Twitter page.
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