VVIP chopper scandal: CBI questions Aeromatrix CEO; Enforcement Directorate begins probe
Sunetra Choudhury | Tuesday March 5, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the Rs 3600-crore helicopter deal, questioned the CEO of Aeromatrix, Praveen Bakshi, for second day in a row today.
VVIP chopper scam: Enforcement Directorate begins probe into deal
Written by Sunetra Choudhury, edited by Samira Shaikh | Tuesday March 5, 2013
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing arms dealer Abhishek Verma, has begun investigating the payoffs into the Rs 3400 cr deal signed in 2004 for 12 Agusta Westland choppers, sources told NDTV.
VVIP Chopper scam: CBI examines executives of Indian firms
Press Trust of India | Monday March 4, 2013
CBI today started examination of suspects in connection with alleged kickbacks received in the Rs 3600 crore VVIP chopper deal as it reached Chandigarh and questioned executives of IDS Infotech and Aeromatrix-firms named in its preliminary enquiry (P...
VVIP chopper scam: CBI to question former Air Force Chief SP Tyagi next week, sources tell NDTV
Reported by Sunetra Choudhury; Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Friday March 1, 2013
Former Air Force Chief SP Tyagi and his cousins will be questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) next week in its probe into the Rs 4000-crore VVIP chopper scam, sources have told NDTV. The CBI is investigating allegations of kickbacks...
VVIP chopper scam: Supreme Court rejects plea for special probe team
Edited by Ashish Mukherjee | Friday March 1, 2013
The Supreme Court today turned down a public interest litigation or PIL that a special investigation team should be set up to probe the Rs 4000-crore VVIP helicopter deal.
Parliamentary committee to probe VVIP chopper scam, BJP not part of JPC
Reported by Sunil Prabhu, Edited by Abhinav Bhatt (With inputs from agencies) | Wednesday February 27, 2013
30 members of Parliament will investigate India's agreement to buy 12 helicopters from AgustaWestland, a deal worth nearly 3,600 crores that was allegedly organised in exchange for kickbacks. The BJP, which has described the Joint Parliamentary Commi...
VVIP chopper scam: Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) formed, BJP not on board
Edited by Mala Das | Wednesday February 27, 2013
The Defence Minister AK Antony promised Parliament today that the government will identify and punish those who accepted or paid kickbacks in a deal to buy 12 Italian helicopters. The government won a vote in the Rajya Sabha to set up a parliamentary...
VVIP chopper storm in Rajya Sabha: highlights
NDTV.com | Wednesday February 27, 2013
The government today won a vote in the Rajya Sabha to set up a Joint Parliamentary Committee or JPC to investigate the VVIP chopper scandal. The BJP is however not on board.
Edited by Surabhi Malik | Wednesday February 27, 2013
During a discussion in the Rajya Sabha today, the BJP once again demanded that the Supreme Court should monitor the investigation into the allegations of kickbacks in the Rs. 4000 crore VVIP chopper deal. The opposition party had earlier rejected a J...
VVIP chopper scam: Rajya Sabha to discuss the deal today
Press Trust of India | Wednesday February 27, 2013
The controversial AgustaWestland chopper deal will be debated in the Rajya Sabha today after the government agreed to discuss the issue following demand by the BJP on Tuesday.
VVIP chopper scam: India to confront AgustaWestland with findings of early enquiry
Reported by Sudhi Ranjan Sen; edited by Mala Das | Monday February 25, 2013
India will send a new letter to helicopter manufacturer AgustaWestland (AW), warning that early investigations by the CBI suggest that bribes were paid by the Anglo-Italian venture to land a deal for 12 helicopters in 2010.
VVIP chopper scam: CBI seems to reject denials by ex-Air Force Chief SP Tyagi
Reported by Sunetra Choudhury; Edited by Mala Das | Monday February 25, 2013
The CBI, which is investigating allegations of kickbacks in a deal to buy 12 helicopters from Italy, has included former Air Force Chief SP Tyagi in its preliminary enquiry. That indicates that the agency believes the charges against him, made first ...
VVIP chopper scandal: In letter, AgustaWestland lists why deal can't be cancelled
Reported by Sudhi Ranjan Sen; edited by Janaki Fernandes | Monday February 25, 2013
India is preparing to cancel a deal for 12 Italian helicopters following allegations raised in Rome about nearly 350 crores paid as kickbacks to Indian officials including a former Air Force chief. NDTV has accessed the reply sent by the helicopter m...
The Agusta helicopter that the BJP's Vasundhara Raje bought sits in a hangar
Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Monday February 25, 2013
As a controversy rages over the Rs 4000-crore VVIP helicopter deal, the first Agusta Westland chopper to land in India sits grounded in a Rajasthan hangar and the ruling Congress proposes to investigate why it was at all bought for a not insignifican...
VVIP chopper scam: Indian investigating team gets documents from Italian authorities, say sources
Reported by Sunetra Choudhury (with inputs from PTI); Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Monday February 25, 2013
The investigating team from India probing the alleged kickbacks in the VVIP chopper scandal has procured some documents from the Italian authorities in Milan, according to sources. The documents are reportedly company papers of AgustaWestland and Fin...
