JOIN USThe Enforcement Directorate has filed a supplementary chargesheet against former Air Force Chief S P Tyagi, his two cousins, two Italian middlemen, a lawyer and Finmeccanica in the multi-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper bribery scam.
The chargesheet will be taken up for consideration on July 20 by special judge Arvind Kumar. Those named in the chargesheet are Tyagi's cousins Sanjeev and Julie, lawyer Gautam Khaitan, Italian middlemen Carlo Gerosa and Guido Haschke, and Finmeccanica, the parent company of AgustaWestland.
The ED has claimed in the chargesheet that money has been laundered through multiple foreign companies which were used as fronts to park alleged kickbacks.
The ED case is based on a CBI FIR that said there was an estimated loss of Euros 398.21 million (around Rs 2,666 crore) to the exchequer in the deal signed by the UPA government in February 2010 for the supply of VVIP choppers worth Euros 556.262 million. The CBI had earlier arrested Tyagi, his cousin Sanjeev and Khaitan.
According to the ED, M/s Agusta Westland International Ltd, UK paid an amount of Euro 58 million as kickbacks through M/s Gordian Services Sarl, Tunisia and M/s IDS Sarl, Tunisia for the deal involving 12 VVIP choppers.
"These companies further syphoned off the said money/proceeds of crime in the name of consultancy contracts to M/s Interstellar Technologies Ltd, Mauritius and others, which were further transferred to M/s UHY Saxena, Dubai, M/s Matrix Holdings Ltd. Dubai and others," an ED had earlier said.