AgustaWestland Case: Delhi Court Allows Probe Agency To Interrogate Christian Michel

New Delhi:

A Delhi court docket has allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to interrogate alleged intermediary Christian Michel on the Tihar central prison, the place he’s lodged in reference to the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper rip-off case.

Particular Pass judgement on Pulastya Pramachala on Saturday allowed the ED to interrogate Michel on Would possibly 25 and 26 within the prison premises.

The court docket allowed the ED’s plea moved by means of the company’s particular public prosecutor NK Matta after he submitted throughout a listening to held via video conferencing that the accused used to be required to be faced with positive paperwork throughout its ongoing probe within the case.

Michel, extradited from Dubai, used to be arrested by means of the Enforcement Directorate on December 22, 2018.

On January five, 2019, Michel used to be despatched to judicial custody within the ED case. He’s additionally lodged in judicial custody within the CBI case associated with the rip-off.

He used to be arrested within the UAE and extradited to India on December four, 2018. The following day, he used to be produced earlier than the court docket which allowed his custodial interrogation by means of the CBI.

Later, he used to be arrested by means of the ED.

Michel is without doubt one of the 3 alleged middlemen being probed within the case by means of the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The others are Guido Haschke and Carlo Gerosa.

The CBI has alleged that there used to be an estimated lack of Euro 398.21 million (about Rs 2,666 crore) to the exchequer within the deal that used to be signed on February eight, 2010 for the availability of VVIP choppers value Euro 556.262 million.

The ED, in its price sheet filed in opposition to Michel in June 2016, had alleged that he won EUR 30 million (about Rs 225 crore) from AgustaWestland.