Indian investigators Friday arrested the country’s former air force chief S. P. Tyagi over a scandal-hit deal with Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland to supply high-end helicopters to India.
India suspended the deal in 2013 following accusations AgustaWestland paid bribes to win the contract for 12 helicopters intended for use by the prime minister and other VIPs.
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation arrested Tyagi in New Delhi over his alleged role in bribing officials to swing the deal in favour of AgustaWestland.
“An investigation was going on and yes we have arrested him,” Kanchan Prasad, a spokeswoman for CBI told AFP.
The 556-million-euro deal is also being investigated separately by Italian authorities, with the boss of AgustaWestland’s parent company Finmeccanica being arrested in 2013.
Italian prosecutors suspect kickbacks worth about 10 per cent of the deal - 50 million euros - were paid to Indian officials as bribes.
Indian detectives had raided the home of Tyagi in 2013 as they investigated allegations of bribery. Tyagi and Finmeccanica have denied any wrongdoing.
India has already received three of the helicopters, intended to be used by such dignitaries as the prime minister and the president, but delivery of the remaining nine has been scrapped.
The deal was signed under India’s previous Congress-led government led by Manmohan Singh.
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Mjhe herat hoti hai jb log tareef shru krte hain kisi ki tou asman pe pohncha dete hain, jese un mein dunya ka koi aeib hai hi nae
Ye haal hamari awam ka hai
Jb mulk ka hr idara corruption mein mulawwis hai tou army(including all establishment/intelligence agencies) aur adliya kese farishte ho sakte hain.
Wo b hamare hi log hain, hamare jese hi kartooton wale hain
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zahir hay CAOS or doodray chief jub corruption kartay hain to pakrhay nahin jaatay aor tunhari hypocrite **haram khor JI **in ko support karti hay. Agar woh jail jain to N$ ya Zardari ke baap bhi Pakistan main kabhi peda na hon. yeh baat ek daffa phir parhlo aor apni khoprhi main gusairh do.
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This is because the most powerful people i.e. army is corrupt and not accountable. Civilians are subservient to military people whether they rule directly or indirectly. When CBR Pakistan will have guts to arrest CAOS or any chief, the same day the people like N$ and Zardari will be history.
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Who is inharge of CBR? is it army? if civilians themselves do not obey their own institutions then why subject army to the same?
charha do 10-15 corrupt civilian political leaders ko phansi pe (after following properly in courts) phir dekhna sab ko julab lag jayen gai corruption ka soch kar
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Amazing posters here who support corrupt politicians through the parties they support be it looting the national exchequer or bhatta khor and bori qatals have the nerve to point fingers towards others. Sharam magar inko nahin aatee.
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**Wohi keh rha hoon
But hamare haan ‘shukria raheel shareef’ wali ajeeb rawayt hai
Jb Musharraf ko farigh krna tha tou Iftikhar ch ko awam ne asman pe pohncha dia tha, Pakistan ki tareekh mein aesa imandar muheb watan chief justice aya hi nae, jb janab farigh hue tou imandari zahir hona shru ho gaei
Recently, raheel shareef ko dekh lein, hr baat pe shukria raheel
Mera kehne ka ye mtlb nae hai k raheel shareef b corrupt hain, point is koi kesa b q na ho, should b treated normally, afterall they r not angels
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the deal was sealed the day Ayub Khan took over and the political material that followed except Bhutto was no match to any leader anywhere in the world.
If Pakistan thinks it can handle world with Nawaz Sharif, then it is time for Pakistan to rethink now
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The deal was sealed when Ayoub Khan went US with a food ministry delegation as a brigadier’
Sold his soul to devil (CIA) which soon managed to make him army chief
