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Agusta Westland chopper scam: ED files supplementary chargesheet against former Air Force Chief S P Tyagi and others

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a supplementary </span>chargesheet<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> in a Delhi court against former Air Force Chief SP Tyagi and others in the Agusta Westland VVIP chopper bribery scam.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />''</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The </span>chargesheet<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> was filed before special judge Arvind Kumar yesterday and it will be taken up for consideration tomorrow. The </span>chargesheet<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">, filed through special public prosecutor NK Matta, names as accused the Tyagi brothers, including SP Tyagi, lawyer Gautam Khaitan, Italian middlemen Carlo Gerosa and Guido Haschke, and Finmeccanica, the parent company of Agusta Westland. </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />''</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The ED </span>said,<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> money was laundered through multiple foreign companies which were used as fronts to park alleged kickbacks.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br />''</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">The court was hearing a money laundering case connected with the 3,600-crore rupee VVIP chopper deal.</span></p>

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