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In a four-hour-long conversation with entrepreneur and podcaster Raj Shamani, aired on Thursday, Vijay Mallya-former liquor baron and founder of the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines-offered an emotional and detailed defence of his conduct over the past decade. Speaking candidly, Mallya insisted, "It was always my intention to settle. Never did I say I didn't want to pay."
According to him, between 2012 and 2015, he made four different settlement offers to banks, none of which were accepted. He recalled meeting the State Bank of India (SBI) chairperson at the bank's training academy in Hyderabad, where he allegedly offered a substan...