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AugustaWestland chopper scam: ED summons SP Tyagi

AugustaWestland chopper scam: ED summons SP Tyagi

| | 29 Apr 2016, 11:47 pm
New Delhi, Apr 29 (IBNS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday summoned former IAF chief S.P. Tyagi in connection with the AugustaWestland chopper deal, media reports said.

The scam has already rocked the Parliament this week with the ruling BJP targeting the Congress and its president Sonia Gandhi over the issue.

An Italian court investigated the contract because Augusta's parent company is Finmeccanica, an Italian defence manufacturer, and decided that vast amounts of bribes were routed to India by company executives to land the deal for 12 VVIP helicopters for about Rs. 3,600 crore.

The deal was cancelled by India in 2014 after the Italians began investigating it, a point the Congress is flashing in its defence along with the fact that AgustaWestland has not been banned by the new government from bidding for new defence deals.

The Congress  made its own demand for a discussion on AugustaWestland demanding to know why the defence manufacturer accused of corruption was taken off a blacklist by the Narendra Modi government.
 

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