New Delhi: A special CBI court on Wednesday issued non-bailable warrants (NBWs) against three European middlemen in connection with the AgustaWestland VVIP copters deal case, and served summons on the other accused including former IAF chief S.P. Tyagi.
The CBI said the NBWs and the summonses were issued against the accused on the basis of its chargesheet filed in September this year.
The middlemen are Carlo F. Gerosa, Christian Michel and Guido Haschke.
The agency had filed the chargesheet against nine people, including Tyagi and five foreign nationals, in connection with alleged bribery in the procurement of 12 VVIP helicopters from the UK-based AgustaWestland during the UPA-2 government.
The chargesheet has estimated a loss of 398.21 million euros (approximately '2,666 crore) to the exchequer in the deal that was signed on February 8, 2010, for the supply of VVIP choppers worth 556.262 million euros ('3,726.26 crore approximately), officials had said.
The chargesheet had also named retired Air Marshal J.S. Gujral, Sanjeev Tyagi, cousin of the ex-IAF chief, and middleman G. Khaitan, whose companies were used for routing the money
