VVIP chopper scam: CBI registers FIR against former Air chief SP Tyagi - Times of India

NEW DELHI: The CBI registered an FIR against former IAF chief SP Tyagi and others in connection with alleged kickbacks in the VVIP helicopter scam on Wednesday. The FIR includes names of SP Tyagi's cousins Julie and Docsa in the AgustaWestland chopper deal case. The FIR names four firms and 12 people. The CBI has registered a regular case in the VVIP chopper deal under Sections 120 and 420 of the IPC and under certain sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The CBI also carried out searches at 14 lo cations in Delhi, NCR and Chandigarh in connection with the case. The agency had earlier received documents pertaining to money trail and the Italian 'search warrant' with details on the exchange of money. The agency was scrutinising the flow of money into the accounts of IDS and Aeromatrix and had also roped in Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax sleuths into the probe, CBI sources said. The sources said the documents also included an initial 'search warrant' of the Italian authorities which details payment of kickbacks in securing the contracts for supply of 12 helicopters to India. Based on this 'search warrant', the Italian authorities had arrested Giuseppe Orsi, chairman of Finmeccanica, and Bruno Spagnolini, Chief Executive Officer of AgustaWestland. The papers did mention the name of Tyagi brothers and reportedly also spoke about meeting of middlemen with former IAF chief S P Tyagi. CBI sources claimed that the agency had got eno ugh material which suggested that there was a heavy inflow of cash into engineering firms routed through Mauritius and Tunisia. CBI has registered a PE naming the former IAF chief, his three cousins -- Julie, Docsa and Sandeep Tyagi -- alleged middlemen Carlo Gerosa, Christian Michel and Guido Haschkhe, advocate Gautam Khaitan formerly associated with Aeromatrix and its CEO Praveen Bakshi, Orsi and Spagnolini. While the Tyagi brothers, Khaitan and Bakshi have been questioned by the CBI, all of them have denied any wrongdoing in the tender process. via Top Stories - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHvBWO86LPJ_CWQwfAv7fT5wssK1A&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/VVIP-chopper-scam-CBI-registers-FIR-against-former-Air-chief-SP-Tyagi/articleshow/18947790.cms

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