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Navy inquiry establishes a senior officer's connection with a Russian woman: Antony

Defence Minister A K Antony today said a Navy inquiry has established a senior officer's connections with a Russian woman, but it was yet to be probed whether the link had influenced the price hike of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier. <br/><br/>The officer, Commodore Sukhjinder Singh, was in-charge of the Gorshkov refit project in Russia between 2005 and 2007, and was part of the cost negotiation committee that firmed up a revised price of 2.33 billion US Dollars for the Kiev class aircraft carrier's refit at a Russian shipyard. <br/><br/>Mr Antony told reporters in New Delhi that the Navy has completed one part of its investigations and they have just started the second part of the investigations. <br/><br/>The minister said this after addressing the inaugural session of the two-day armed forces' Unified Commanders Conference in New Delhi. <br/><br/>The minister said, as soon as the investigation is complete, a decision will be taken and do not want to jump to conclusions before the probe is over. <br/><br/>Mr Antony said he had asked the Navy to speed up the investigation as quickly as possible.<br/>

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