The Enforcement Directorate today told a court in New Delhi that a director of two Dubai-based firms has been non-cooperative and evading probe in a money laundering case connected with the 3,600-crore rupees VVIP chopper deal. The probe agency was opposing the plea of Rajeev Saxena, one of the directors of M/s UHY Saxena and M/s Matrix Holdings, seeking cancellation of the non-bailable warrant issued against him by the court last year.<br/><br/>During the arguments before Special Judge Arvind Kumar, Special Public Prosecutor N K Matta said that Saxena has not joined the probe despite repeated summons. The counsel said that the investigation in the matter is going on since June 2016 and Saxena is aware that he is needed in the probe, yet he has been evading it.<br/><br/>The agency, which concluded its arguments today, claimed that during the probe it was found that AgustaWestland, United Kingdom, had paid an amount of 58 million Euros kickbacks through two Tunisia-based firms.<br/><br/>The court has now kept the matter for hearing on January 11 when it will hear arguments on behalf of Saxena, who had approached the court for cancellation NBW issued against him on October 6 last year.<br/><br/>Saxena's name was mentioned in a charge sheet filed against his wife Shivani Saxena, who was released on bail after being arrested by the ED. He has not been arrayed as an accused so far and the agency has told the court that another supplementary charge sheet may follow.<br/><br/>Earlier, India had scrapped the contract with Finmeccanica's British subsidiary AgustaWestland for supplying VVIP choppers to the IAF over alleged breach of contractual obligations and charges of kickbacks of 423 crore rupees paid by it to secure the deal.

The Enforcement Directorate today told a court in New Delhi that a director of two Dubai-based firms has been non-cooperative and evading probe in a money laundering case connected with the 3,600-crore rupees VVIP chopper deal. The probe agency was opposing the plea of Rajeev Saxena, one of the directors of M/s UHY Saxena and M/s Matrix Holdings, seeking cancellation of the non-bailable warrant issued against him by the court last year.<br/><br/>During the arguments before Special Judge Arvind Kumar, Special Public Prosecutor N K Matta said that Saxena has not joined the probe despite repeated summons. The counsel said that the investigation in the matter is going on since June 2016 and Saxena is aware that he is needed in the probe, yet he has been evading it.<br/><br/>The agency, which concluded its arguments today, claimed that during the probe it was found that AgustaWestland, United Kingdom, had paid an amount of 58 million Euros kickbacks through two Tunisia-based firms.<br/><br/>The court has now kept the matter for hearing on January 11 when it will hear arguments on behalf of Saxena, who had<br/>approached the court for cancellation NBW issued against him on October 6 last year.<br/><br/>Saxena's name was mentioned in a charge sheet filed against his wife Shivani Saxena, who was released on bail<br/>after being arrested by the ED. He has not been arrayed as an accused so far and the agency has told the court that another supplementary charge sheet may follow.<br/><br/>Earlier, India had scrapped the contract with Finmeccanica's British subsidiary AgustaWestland for supplying VVIP choppers to the IAF over alleged breach of contractual obligations and charges of kickbacks of 423 crore rupees paid by it to secure the deal.