Vijay Mallya Claims He’s Not a Fugitive, Cites UK Legal Bar

Alleged fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya has professed his innocence and claimed that he is legally prohibited from leaving the UK. In a series of posts on X, Mallya claimed that the Indian government has been grossly unjust to him. 

In October 2025, MoS Finance Pankaj Chaudhary told the Lok Sabha that a total of 15 individuals had been declared Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEOs) under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 (FEOA).

The list included several high-profile names, such as Vijay



Mallya and Nirav Modi, among others, he said. However, Mallya now claims that his continued stay in the UK is the result of a legal bar preventing him from travelling to India. 

“For all who say I am a bhagoda refusing to come to India, please be aware that I have been a permanent resident of the United Kingdom since 1992 and am currently legally prohibited from leaving this country. All this started with poster boy actions by the Government of India who have been grossly unjust in my case,” he said in a post on X.