The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday questioned cousins of former Air Chief SP Tyagi in connection with alleged kickbacks in VVIP helicopter deal. ...
03:06 PM, Mar 06, 2013
AgustaWestland on Friday replied to a showcasue notice issued by the Indian government on the cancellation of the Rs 3600 crore chopper deal. In its reply the company denied any involvement in any kind of malpractice related to the deal. It says it had fully complied with the rules that regulated the multi crore helicopter deal. ...
08:20 AM, Feb 23, 2013
The CBI team is likely to return from Italy on Friday with not much success as the Italian officials refused to share their probe report in the tainted AgustaWestland deal. The CBI team met the top management of Finmeccanica who have assured cooperation in the investigation. ...
08:49 AM, Feb 22, 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
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
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
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 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
With elections just weeks away, the Italian media has begun playing down the AgustaWestland chopper deal that led to the arrest of Finmeccanica boss Giuseppe Orsi. ...
06:50 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Facing threat of cancellation of its deal to supply 12 AW-101 choppers to India, AgustaWestland on Saturday said it was preparing to clarify the points raised by the Indian government in this regard. The Defence Ministry had on Friday issued a show cause notice to AgustaWestland of the UK asking why the contract should not be scrapped in view of the recent corruption allegations in the case. ...
05:39 PM, Feb 16, 2013
In a major setback to the Indian team investigating the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal, the Italian court on Saturday refused to share its probe-related documents saying it couldn't share evidence. Earlier, Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid had said that India was trying to get access to the details of the chargesheet in the Italian court. He had also remained non-committal on the deal being called off. ...
04:33 PM, Feb 16, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday said that all procedures were 'strictly followed' by the UPA government in the controversial VVIP chopper deal. ...
03:52 PM, Feb 16, 2013
The investigations into the AgustaWestland chopper deal may bring in more defence personnel under scrutiny. Apart from the Tyagi brothers, the Italian probe report mentions a military man who also received kickbacks. ...
01:18 PM, Feb 16, 2013
India's High Commissioner to the UK says the British government is closely watching the developments and waiting for the completion of Italian investigations in the AgustaWestland defence deal. ...
08:27 AM, Feb 16, 2013
As the Ministry of Defence on Friday initiated the process to scrap the deal with AgustaWestland for 12 VVIP helicopters, the CBI, which is probing into the case, has decided to send a team to Italy within a week. ...
11:52 PM, Feb 15, 2013
