The ED, an government agency fighting financial crime, made the money-laundering allegation against UB Group before a court, and has sought a non-bailable warrant against Mallya , a UB Group spokesman said in a statement late on Sunday.

The 11.5 million documents of Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca have names of 500 Indians, including industrialists, renowned lawyers, ex-cricketers and celebrities.

The government gave Mallya a week's time to respond to the notice failing which his travel document could be impounded. Vijay Mallya, who is in Britain, could face problems for his overseas stay in view of the suspension of the passport, sources said.

Vijay Mallya, the owner of Kingfisher Airlines and many other companies that owe over Rs 9,000 crore of dues to lenders, is currently in London, defying Enforcement Directorate (ED) summons.

The newly enacted Black Money law has strict provisions of 60 per cent tax on foreign assets, and jail terms of 10 years of imprisonment in case of wilful evasion.

The Vijay Mallya saga gets curiouser every passing day even as the investigations in the cases against him are making little progress. While the govt has given 'stern' warnings to Mallya to pay dues honourably or face action - the latest from Arun Jaitley - many call it just political posturing.

Vijay Mallya had on Friday sought time till May to depose before the agency, expressing his inability to keep the scheduled date for Saturday at the ED's zonal office in Mumbai.

Mallya had first joined in December 1973 as director of Sanofi India Ltd (SIL), then known as Hoechst Pharmaceuticals Ltd. He functioned as the board chairman since December 1983.

Kingfisher, with an outstanding debt of Rs 9,000 crore, is just one case. The total money stuck in bad loans was a staggering Rs 4 lakh crore at the end of March 2015. The figure was Rs 1 lakh crore just five years ago.

The new summons came after the United Breweries (UB) group Chairman had yesterday sought more time from the agency to present himself on a later date instead of the scheduled time for today.

Financial advisory firm Grant Thornton has also come under scanner as it certified the value of KFA at Rs 4,100 crore in 2011, when commercial airlines were piling up losses.

Vijay Mallya, under pressure from banks to repay $1.4 billion owed by his collapsed Kingfisher Airlines, left India for Britain on March 2. His departure sparked outrage in parliament.

Official sources said Vijay Mallya has been summoned to appear before investigators of the ED in Mumbai on March 18.

Sources said the agency recently filed charges under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based on an FIR registered last year by CBI in connection with the alleged default of over Rs 900 crore loan from IDBI Bank.

During the launch, Ringing Bells distributed some \"prototypes\" to the media which turned out to be Adcom handsets, Adcom's founder and chairman Sanjeev Bhatia said.

The charge sheet alleged that the proceeds of crime to the tune of Rs 742.58 crore were paid by Mauritius-based companies for Dayanidhi in SDTPL and SAFL.

Without naming the company or the person involved, the tax department said \"as part of such investigation, searches under section 132 and surveys under section 133A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 are being conducted at the residential and business premises of the key functionaries of the group\".

The agency recently has begun obtaining from various court registries the details of Income Tax department's prosecution charge sheets filed against over 140 entities till now.

The Enforcement Directorate has slapped a notice in connection with the valuation of shares of the Bollywood superstar's co-owned IPL cricket team, Kolkata Knight Riders.

Every big bank including the private ones from ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank to Axis Bank were found wanting when it came to adhering to banking regulations.