New Delhi: The service tax department on Friday claimed that business tycoon Vijay Mallya owes them Rs 115 crore and failure to pay the dues is a non-bailable offence.
The hearing of their plea against the trial court order granting bail to Mallya has been adjourned till March 28.
The department has also said that as the Centre is the custodian of service tax funds, the need to resolve those dues is more important than recovering loans issued by public sector banks earlier.
Meanwhile, the Enforcement Directorate has summoned Mallya in the money laundering case and asked him to appear for questioning.
Earlier in the day, former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of long-grounded carrier Kingfisher Airlines, A Raghunathan appeared before the ED for questioning
The ED had issued summons to over half a dozen officials of the IDBI bank and Mallya-owned KFA under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) wherein all the individuals have been asked to submit details about their personal finances and Income Tax Returns (ITRs) of last five years to the investigators.
"We had summoned Raghunathan and he appeared before us for questioning this morning," said an ED official.
"His questioning is important to throw light on various financial transactions, as many of them are in his personal domain," he said.
The ED recently registered a money laundering case against Mallya and others based on a CBI FIR registered in 2015. The agency is also investigating the overall financial structure of Kingfisher Airlines and if any possible kick backs were made.
The CBI had booked Mallya, director of Kingfisher Airlines, the company, Raghunathan and unknown officials of IDBI Bank in its FIR alleging that the loan was sanctioned in violation of norms regarding credit limits.
The ED is looking into the "proceeds of crime" that would have been generated using the slush funds of the alleged loan fraud and it is also probing if some of this amount was sent abroad illegally, they said.
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