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AgustaWestland case: ED arrested businessman Anup Gupta, sent on 5 days remand

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested businessman Anoop Gupta in the much talked-about AgustaWestland scam. ED has arrested KRKB Limited Director Gupta, taking a big step in the fraud case related to the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal.




New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested businessman Anoop Gupta in the much talked-about AgustaWestland scam. ED has arrested KRKB Limited Director Gupta, taking a big step in the fraud case related to the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal. According to ED officials, Gupta has been arrested after receiving several evidence in connection with the money laundering investigation being conducted by the agency.

Sent for five days in custody

The officer said that Gupta was produced before a Delhi court in the AgustaWestland case , which sent him to five days custody. In January 2019, ED arrested British citizen Christian Mitchell James in connection with the investigation of the case. Mitchell was extradited from the United Arab Emirates in December 2018 and was arrested at the time by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the investigation.

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The deal was done in the year 2010

Explain that in 2010, the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government signed a deal to buy 12 AgustaWestland helicopters for the Indian Air Force from Italy’s defense manufacturing giant Finmeccanica. It is alleged that middlemen and others were allegedly bribed in this deal.

 

Parvesh Maurya
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