Christian Michel  

Christian Michel is the accused middleman, charged with money laundering of Rs 3,600 crore, in the AgustaWestland chopper deal. Both CBI and ED have opposed his bail plea.

Christian Michel was extradited from Dubai last year and is currently lodged in Tihar Jail in connection with alleged irregularities in the AugustaWestland VVIP chopper deal. The CBI will interrogate him from September 24 and 26.

The court observed that there was no sufficient ground grant Christian Michel bail in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case
 

Advocate Avi Singh, appearing for Tihar Jail this week, has said that the unequal treatments are continuing and other inmates have also started demanding the same provisions. 

According to the sources, after he complained multiple times for his isolated cell, now he has been allowed to meet two-three inmates in the jail. 

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In the 52-page supplementary charge sheets and 3,000 pages of documents, Michel's business partner Syms, and two firms Global Services FZE and Global Trade and Commerce Services have been named.

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AgustaWestland middleman Christian Michel's testimony and dispatches show that the Congress led UPA government had been compromised and matters pertaining to national security had been leaked to a select band of brokers

Explosive details have emerged from supplementary chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal that shows how alleged middlemen Christian Michel James tried to influence public opinion

The ED told the court how the “illegal intervention” from alleged middleman Christian Michel James had “led to the elimination of Russians on technical grounds” while Sikorsky’s bid was kept alive to give the entire process a modicum of legality and legitimacy.
 

 

 

Christian Michel has claimed that his team and he had access to sensitive inside information about the government of India at the time of the deal and the level of corruption that had spread within the then ruling Congress.

ED alleged that Michel has admitted that kickbacks were paid to swing the deal in favour of AgustaWestland.

 

 

Gupta was arrested following information furnished by Rajiv Saxena, middleman who turned government approver in the case. The UPA-time VVIP choppergate is unravelling fast. Earlier, lawyer Gautam Khaitan and UK-based middleman Christian Michel were deported and arrested in the case.

On December 31, the Enforcement Directorate told the Patiala House Court that British middleman Christian Michel had taken the name of some “Mrs Gandhi” during his interrogation