New Delhi: Liquor baron Vijay Mallya on Wednesday said he is not a fugitive and 'always had honest intentions' to repay his loans. This comes after Mallya on Tuesday broke his silence over the controversy surrounding him of defaulting on bank loans to the tune of Rs 9000 crores, and said he had been falsely framed as the "poster boy of Bank default and a lightning rod of public anger".

Later, in an interview with ANI, Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar said: "If Vijay Mallya wanted to pay the banks he had many many years to do so."