Indian drinks baron Vijay Mallya has been blocked from receiving $75m (£53m) severance pay from Diageo.
The heavily indebted businessman was to receive the money as settlement after being ousted from the firm in February.
But a consortium of banks and creditors has demanded the money should be used to settle Mr Mallya's outstanding debt to them.
The businessman is said to have some $1.4bn of unpaid debts after his Kingfisher airline collapsed in 2013.
A debt recovery tribunal on Monday blocked the payment and will review the case again on March 28.
Diageo and United Spirits Ltd shall not temporarily disburse the amount to
Mallya," the presiding officer of the debt recovery tribunal said in his
order.
Mr Mallya had been due to receive $40m of the settlement immediately and the remainder over the course of five years.
In 2012 his Kingfisher airline was unable to pay staff, airports, tax authorities and lenders, having lost money for five years in a row.
A consortium of banks and creditors also sought Mr Mallya's
arrest and asked for his passport to be impounded after he said that he
wanted to move to Britain to be closer to his children.
The
flamboyant businessman, who is a household name in India, sold a large
chunk of United Spirits, which he inherited from his father, to Diageo in April 2014.
But
the UK-based drinks giant had been reportedly trying to oust him as
chairman after an internal inquiry found financial irregularities.
Mr Mallya,
once dubbed by Indian media as "India's Richard Branson" and the "King
of Good Times" for his lavish lifestyle also owns a stake in the Formula
One team Force India.
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