| Title | INDIA - VVIP CHOPPER DEAL SCAM |
| Description | Allegations of bribery and
corruption involving several senior officials and
AgustaWestland, Italian Helicopter manufavturer,
pertaining to the purchase of a new fleet of helicopters. These
were sought to perform VVIP duties for the President of India
and other VVIP dignitaries. The contract for purchase of 12 helicopters was signed in Feb 2010. He had been accused by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) of receiving about Euro 30 million from AgustaWestland to influence the deal in its favour. The ED and CBI are both probing the case, in which a chargesheet was filed against Michel in June 2016. |
| Events: | |
| Dec 04, 2018: | The Dubai authorities extradited Christian Michel, a middleman of the deal, to Delhi on a private jet. immediately after his reaching Delhi, the Govt. of India officially took him into custody. |
| Nov 19, 2018: | The Supreme Court of Dubai passed the orders for the extradition to India of Christian Michel, the middleman of the deal. |
| Jan 08, 2018: | The third Court of Appeals of Milan finally acquitted the defendants on all charges. |
| Feb 08, 2017: | On the request of Interpol, Michel was first arrested by the Dubai authorities on this day. |
| Dec 16, 2016: | The conviction of Giuseppe Oris, in Apr 2016, was now cancelled by the Italian Supreme Court, which ordered a retrial of the whole case. |
| Dec 09, 2016: | S.P. Tyagi, former Chief of the Indian Air Force and his cousin Sabjeev Tyagi and his lawyer Gauyam Khaitan were arrested by the CBI. |
| Apr 08, 2016: | The Milan Court of Appeal, Italy, convicted AgustaWestland's executive Giuseppe Orsi to four years' imprisonment for paying a Euro 30 million bribe to Indian politicians, bureaucrats and Indian Air Force officials. |
| Mar 25, 2013: | The then Defence Minister of India, A.K. Antony stated that corruption did take place and bribes had been taken. |
| Mar 13, 2013: | CBI registered an FIR naming13 persons including: former Indian Air Force Chief, Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi, his three brothers and Pratap Aggarwal (Chairman and Managing Director of IDS Infotech). It also named four companies - Italy-based Finmeccanica, UK-based AgustaWestland and Chandigarh-based IDS Infotech and Aeromatrix. |
| Feb 27, 2013: | The Indian Government introduced a motion in Rajya Sabha for an investigation led by a 30-member Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC). |
| Feb 25, 2013: | CBI registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) against 11 persons including the former Indian Air Force Chief, Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi, and his cousins, besides four companies. |
| Feb 12, 2013: | Controversy over the contract came to the fore on this day with the arrest of Giuseppe Orsi, the CEO of Finmeccanica, AgustaWestland's parent company by Italian authorities. As a sequel there to, the Ministry of Defence, Govt of India, ordered a probe into the deal. |
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