Gupta delivered classified documents on Indian negotiating team to Dassault: French report
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Middleman even obtained Excel sheet created by Indian team for calculating purchase price: French report
Arms dealer Sushen Gupta, charge sheeted by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal, supplied classified documents to Dassault Aviation on the Indian negotiating team when talks were gridlocked over benchmark pricing in the €7.87 bn Rafale deal, according to French media outlet Mediapart. According to information gained by Mediapart, one of those “other defence deals” in the ED investigation which was not identified in the charge sheet, is the Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) signed in 2016 for 36 Rafale jets. In the official charge sheet dated May 20, 2019 against Mr. Gupta, the ED wrote that he had gained “sensitive data which should have only been in possession of the Ministry of Defence”. It also said “since kickbacks from the other defence deals are not a subject matter of the present investigation” about the AgustaWestland scandal, “separate investigations would be undertaken” regarding the other deals,” according to the report. The report said according to information gained by Mediapart, one of those “other defence deals” in the ED investigation, which was not identified in the charge sheet, is the Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) signed in 2016 for 36 Rafale jets.
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