Parliament is set to discuss the AgustaWestland chopper deal after March 4 under Rule 193, which does not entail voting. Meanwhile, in the latest development concerning the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team, which went as part of probe to Italy, the top management of Finmeccanica has assured assistance and relevant papers. ...
06:57 PM, Feb 21, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team met the Italian judge presiding on Wednesday the case but they were red faced as Italian authorities refused to share any documents with them. ...
07:29 AM, Feb 21, 2013
A joint team of the Central Bureau of Investigation, Defence Ministry and the External Affairs Ministry will meet the officials of AgustaWestland and its parent company Finmeccanica in Italy on Wednesday. ...
08:56 AM, Feb 20, 2013
A joint team of CBI, Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday reached Italy to probe allegations of kickbacks. ...
10:58 PM, Feb 19, 2013
In the thick of allegations of the Rs 3,600 crore scam in the deal of 12 helicopters to India, Italian company Finmeccanica today said it is ready to cooperate with authorities here to clarify the matter. AgustaWestland, which is allegedly involved in the scam, is part of the Finmeccanica Group. ...
09:06 PM, Feb 19, 2013
The CBI team which reached Italy on Tuesday to probe role of Indians in the alleged Rs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter deal scam met its lawyer and described the meeting as "useful." High level sources in CBI said the team had a meeting with the lawyer engaged by the agency to represent India's case with the Italian government and the local courts to find out the role of Indians in...
08:54 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday said that the government was open to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe on the AgustaWestland chopper deal. A Central Bureau of Investigation team on Tuesday reached Milan in Italy to probe the allegations of kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore deal. ...
04:47 PM, Feb 19, 2013
The two Italian marines in a Kerala jail want to travel to Italy to cast their votes in january elections. They have sought permission to travel to Italy and the matter will be heard on Friday. ...
03:15 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Nestle, the world's biggest food company, has removed beef pasta meals from sale in Italy and Spain after finding traces of horse DNA. The discovery of horsemeat in products labelled as beef has spread across Europe since January, prompting product withdrawals, consumer anger and government investigations into the continent's complex food-processing chains. ...
12:25 PM, Feb 19, 2013
CNN-IBN's political editor in Europe, Sanjay Suri, spoke to Italian legal experts to try and find out whether India can gain access to the Italian probe report on AgustaWestland deal. ...
11:04 AM, 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
Holding that investigation into the Rs 3,600-crore VVIP helicopter deal was on at "many levels", India on Monday said Letters Rogatory is the "best and strongest method" available to it for seeking details from Italian courts on the case. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid also said a CBI team from New Delhi has gone to Milan in Italy to get material and details about the case. ...
04:42 AM, Feb 19, 2013
AgustaWestland deal key middleman Christian Michel yet to be quizzed. Wrote on Modi as a citizen of India, Jaitley twists facts, says Katju. ...
11:59 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Italian probe reports say that Michel got 60 per cent of the Rs 350 crore kickbacks. However, he has not been questioned even once. ...
11:55 PM, Feb 18, 2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is on a visit to India, has said that the issue of bribe being paid in the AgustaWestland chopper deal is a matter between Italian and Indian authorities. ...
10:39 PM, Feb 18, 2013
CNN-IBN's senior editor Jyoti Kamal joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the AgustaWestland chopper deal bribery scandal. ...
05:47 PM, Feb 18, 2013
India may also raise up the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal with the UK PM, as one of the middlemen involved in the deal is said to be from UK. ...
05:23 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Former Finmeccanica CEO Giuseppe Orsi has reportedly applied for bail. His lawyer Ennio Amodio told CNN-IBN that he is currently in talks with the prosecution over the matter. Orsi was arrested following investigations into the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal with India. He was suspected of involvement in the payment of bribes regarding the sale of helicopters produced by the subsidiary company of Finmeccanica. ...
04:20 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The AgustaWestland deal is likely to feature during British Prime Minister David Cameron's three-day visit to India. India has made it clear that so far it has received only an interim reply from the UK government, which has said it would like to see what comes out of the Italian trial before giving a complete reply. ...
03:41 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Everyday there is a new revelation in the AgustaWestland 101 helicopter deal. The two middlemen in the deal - Guido Haschke and Carlos Gerosa - have allegedly allegation take a huge kickback to swing the deal in favour of AgustaWestland. After Rome and Milan in Italy, IBN7 reached the house of Haschke and Gerosa house in Switzerland. ...
01:05 PM, Feb 18, 2013
