The Defence Ministry has got the 'contract' between AgustaWestland and alleged middleman Christian Michel regarding the controversial VVIP helicopter Rs 3600 crore deal with India. The 'contract' has been provided by the Anglo-Italian firm to suggest that there was no wrongdoing in the deal, sources told PTI. ...
09:59 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Amid the ongoing controversy over alleged kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal, Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland on Tuesday replied to Defence Ministry queries, denying any wrongdoing. The Ministry had asked the firm to provide details about its transactions with Tunisia and India-based firms IDS Infotech and Aeromatrix. ...
11:20 PM, Mar 19, 2013
While Parliament in India debates the AgustaWestland chopper deal issue, the focus remains on Christian Michel - the key middleman named in the Italian probe report . Even the Central Bureau of Investigation has named him as a suspect in its preliminary enquiry. ...
12:04 AM, Feb 28, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday named former Air Chief SP Tyagi in its Preliminary Enquiry (PE) in the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal, along with his cousins Julie and Dosca Tyagi and three key middlemen, as alleged beneficiaries of kickbacks. According to the Italian probe report, Gautam Khaitan and Praveen Bakshi were the two individuals who were used to route money into India. ...
09:35 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Christian Michel, one of the three middlemen mentioned in the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal, seem to have disappeared and cannot be found at his residence. The other two middlemen Carlo Gerosa and Guido Haschke have similarly disappeared and have not yet come out in public and spoken on the Rs 3600 VVIP chopper deal with India. ...
08:58 PM, Feb 25, 2013
A joint team of officials from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Defence Ministry and the foreign ministry, who are in Italy, will meet judge Luca Labianca who is presiding over the case. However, they will not be meeting the prosecutor. ...
01:56 PM, Feb 20, 2013
CNN-IBN's London Correspondent Sanjay Suri joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the AgustaWestland chopper deal scam. ...
05:04 PM, Feb 19, 2013
As the CBI team leaves for Italy, senior Lawyer and Aam Aadmi Party member Prashant Bhushan told CNN-IBN that the Indian government was deliberately avoiding investigations in the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal and that India can ask Italy and UK for information under the UN treaty against organised transnational crimes. ...
06:44 AM, Feb 19, 2013
The government was "ready for any discussion" including the VVIP chopper deal in Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday as the BJP signalled it would raise the issue forcefully in the budget session beginning February 21. ...
12:57 AM, Feb 19, 2013
Italian probe reports say that Christian Michel got 60 per cent of the Rs 350 crore kickbacks. However, he has not been questioned even once. ...
10:51 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Christian Michel is said to be the key link in the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal. ...
10:00 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Christian Michel is allegedly the most important link in the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal. According to the Italian probe report, he was the beneficiary of 60 per cent of Rs 350 crore kickbacks, which means he got Rs 210 crore. He was the one who, according to the Italian probe report, was the second track organised by Finmeccanica ex-CEO Giuseppe Orsi to ensure that the company gets the deal for...
08:59 PM, Feb 18, 2013
A new angle has now been uncovered in the AgustaWestland chopper deal. CNN-IBN has accessed French court documents which reveal that Christian Michel, the man accused of taking 60 per cent of kickbacks in the AgustaWestland 101 helicopter deal, was involved in earlier defence deals in India too. ...
06:11 PM, Feb 15, 2013
