From Guido Haschke to Carlos Gerosa, key middlemen in the AgustaWestland chopper deal seem to have gone underground. CNN-IBN has been trying to get in touch with the key middlemen, but they have been untraceable. Haschke's neighbours told CNN-IBN that he has moved from his current address or is taken from there. They did not have a forward contact address. ...
07:44 AM, Feb 18, 2013
With a CBI team is set to leave for Italy on Monday to investigate the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland helicopter deal, the Indian government is still keeping silence on the details of the case, and the only information making rounds is the one revealed by the Italian probe report. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid speaking to CNN-IBN defended the Indian government saying that the Italian government has asked for secrecy....
06:56 AM, Feb 18, 2013
CNN-IBN correspondent Sanjay Suri reached Guido Ralph Haschke's residence on the Swiss-Italian border and was told that he had moved out. ...
10:24 PM, Feb 17, 2013
The CBI has engaged a lawyer in Italy to represent India's case with the Italian government and the local courts to find out the role of Indians in the alleged kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter deal. Official sources said on Sunday that the assistance of a lawyer was taken to help understand the Italian law and expedite getting documents from the helicopter company. ...
06:22 PM, Feb 17, 2013
The BJP is now asking that if the Tyagis are speaking the truth, then who got the kickbacks. ...
06:01 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Alleged middleman Guido Haschke had "cleaned up" all the documents related to the chopper scam from his computer but Italian investigators recovered them from his hard drive along with other papers he had hidden in his mother's home. ...
05:35 PM, Feb 17, 2013
The ongoing investigations in the alleged bribery case against AgustaWestland's helicopter deal with India will not have any impact on the tie-up between Tatas and the Italian chopper maker, said a spokesperson of the joint venture firm. Finmeccanica-owned helicopter maker AgustaWestland signed an MoU in 2009 with India s largest corporate house Tatas for joint venture company - Indian Rotorcraft Ltd - in GMR Hyderabad Aviation SEZ Ltd here for...
03:45 PM, Feb 17, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday demanded to know that if the Tyagis are speaking the truth, who got the kickbacks in the Rs 3600 crore VVIP Italian chopper deal? "For all you know, Tyagi is telling the truth. The government must do its own investigation," BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi said. ...
01:20 PM, Feb 17, 2013
The mysterious middleman, Christian Michel, named in the Italian report on the alleged corrupt chopper deal with India, seems to be the key to the Italian defence company AgustaWestland deal payoffs. CNN-IBN has discovered that his father had huge business interests in India and was very close to Congress leaders in the 1990s. ...
01:00 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Financial irregularities have been suspected in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal between Ministry of Defence and Italian defence firm. ...
12:40 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Arriving in India within days of exposure of the Rs 3,600-crore VVIP helicopters scam involving Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland, UK Prime Minister David Cameron is likely to be pressed for more information in this regard during his meetings with the leadership on Tuesday. The helicopters, three of which have already been delivered in India, are manufactured in southwest England. ...
11:15 AM, Feb 17, 2013
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team is set to leave for Italy on Monday to investigate whether firms were floated in India just to route kickbacks in the Rs 3600 crore VVIP chopper deal with Italian defence company AgustaWestland. Official sources said the departure of the team was delayed due to some last-minute formalities which required to be fulfilled before traveling abroad for the purpose of investigation. ...
09:20 AM, Feb 17, 2013
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team is set to leave for Italy on Sunday to investigate whether firms were floated in India just to route kickbacks in the Rs 3600 crore VVIP chopper deal with Italian defence company AgustaWestland. Official sources said the departure of the team was delayed by a day due to some last-minute formalities which required to be fulfilled before traveling abroad for the purpose of...
07:30 AM, Feb 17, 2013
In a virtual warning to the Congress-led UPA government, opposition BJP on Saturday said it should accept the party's demands on the VVIP chopper deal and the "saffron terror" remark if it wanted Parliament to function in the budget session. ...
12:59 AM, Feb 17, 2013
The Italian court on Saturday had refused to share its probe documents with India. ...
11:20 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Sanjeev Tyagi, the cousin of former air chief SP Tyagi, has refuted allegations of his involvement in the tainted chopper deal. ...
11:10 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Sanjeev Tyagi, the cousin of former air chief SP Tyagi, has refuted allegations that he and his brother received kickbacks in the deal. ...
10:59 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Former Air chief marshal SP Tyagi's cousin Sanjeev Tyagi on Saturday rubbished allegations of his involvement in the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN. Speaking to Rajdeep Sardesai, Sanjeev, mentioned in the Italian probe reports as 'Julie' Tyagi, said that the allegations against him and his cousin SP Tyagi were baseless and had maligned the image of their families. ...
09:41 PM, Feb 16, 2013
A joint team of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Ministry of Defence is likely to leave for Italy on Sunday to probe the alleged kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter deal. CBI sources said the team will meet Italian prosecutors to ascertain the details of the case. ...
08:40 PM, Feb 16, 2013
As the CBI gets set to seek out more details to begin their probe into the AgustaWestland chopper deal, CNN-IBN is trying to trace how the bribe money found its way into India. Companies were floated just to bring in massive amounts of money to bribe individuals under the garb of engineering contracts. ...
07:14 PM, Feb 16, 2013
