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Former IAF chief S P Tyagi was bribed in VVIP chopper scam: Italian investigators

New Delhi, Feb 13: Italian investigators  have alleged that  Finmeccanica bribed former Indian Air Force chief  Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi  to swing the Rs 3,546 cr AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal in favour of

PTI PTI Updated on: February 13, 2013 11:03 IST


The Italian report names three brothers — Julie Tyagi, Docsa Tyagi and Sandeep Tyagi — as the Indian intermediaries who allegedly got kickbacks and passed it on to Indian officials.
 
 It says Finmeccanica's Orsi and alleged middlemen Guido Haschke, Carlo Gerosa and Christian Michel facilitated the payments to India. Julie Tyagi is the Indian businessman who had been named in October as a relative of S P Tyagi, says The Indian Express report.
 
"They promised and managed to pay, through brothers Julie Tyagi, Docsa Tyagi and Sandeep Tyagi, a certain amount of money, not yet quantified, to Air Chief Marshal Shashi Tyagi, Chief of Staff in the Indian Air Force from 2004 to 2007 - a public officer or anyway in charge of functions and activities equivalent to those of a public officer in India - to perform and for having performed a deed against his office duties," the report says.
 
The report also named Britain-based consultant Christian Michel as the other major middleman in the deal.
 
It alleges that Michel was paid a "total amount of about 30 million euros, partly destined to support the corrupt activity meant to bag the order and partly to implement the contract".
 
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