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Nov 15 (Reuters) – Embattled Sahara conglomerate chief Subrata Roy died on Tuesday on account of cardiorespiratory arrest, the corporate stated in a press release.

Roy was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai on Sunday and died following problems arising from metastatic malignancy, hypertension and diabetes, in response to the corporate.

Sahara, as soon as the sponsor of India’s nationwide cricket group, had been embroiled in a battle with market regulator SEBI over repaying billions of {dollars} to buyers who put their cash in a bond scheme that was later dominated to be unlawful.

Roy, the founder and chairman of Sahara, was arrested in March 2014 for failing to attend a contempt of court docket listening to and was on bail since 2016. He had denied any wrongdoing.

Sahara’s belongings at one level of time included New York’s Plaza Hotel and the Grosvenor House in London. Roy was additionally co-owner of the previous Force India Formula One group.

Sahara and Roy had been within the highlight in 2020 after they received a district court docket to stall the discharge of Netflix’s collection “Bad Boy Billionaires” that includes Roy, amongst others, claiming it will harm his status.

Netflix later launched the present after the court docket lifted its injunction. (Reporting by Gursimran Kaur and Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)