CBI: LOBBYIST TALWAR LINKED TO VIJAY MALLYA

New Delhi, Feb. 7: The Enforcement Directorate Thursday claimed before a Delhi court that corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar has links with fugitive Vijay Mallya in a money laundering case related to negotiations favouring foreign private airlines and causing loss to national carrier Air India.

The agency made the submissions before Special Judge Santosh Snehi Mann, who extended the custodial interrogation of Talwar till February

12 after the ED said he was to be confronted with his son Aditya Talwar.

Aditya is currently abroad and has been summoned by the investigating agency for Febr-uary

11, and Talwar’s close aide Yasmin Kapoor.

ED said it has to find out from Talwar the names of officials who favoured foreign airlines by making the national carrier give up its profit making routes and timings.

“Investigation has revealed his links with fugitive Vijay Mallya, when both the said persons were evading the process of law and the probe of the said aspect is ongoing in the instant case,” ED’s special public prosecutor Nitesh Rana told the court.