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ED files supplementary chargesheet in AgustaWestland case

New Delhi | The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday filed a supplementary charge sheet in the AgustaWestland case in Delhi’s Patiala House Court.

ED has filed chargesheet against former Air Force chief SP Tyagi and his two cousins, lawyer Gautam Khaitan, Italian middlemen Carlo Gerosa and Guido Haschke, Finmeccanica, the parent company of Agusta Westland, among others.

Earlier the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a charge sheet against retired Tyagi, former Air Marshal J. S. Gujral and ten others in the case on 1 September 2017.

The case filed by the ED stated that UK-based AgustaWestland International Limited had paid 58 million Euros as kickbacks through Tunisia-based Gordian Services Sarl and IDS Sarl.

Shivani Saxena, an active director of UHY Saxena in under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and is currently in judicial custody.

The ED’s case reports that UHY Saxena and Matrix Holdings were the ones through whom the proceeds of the crime were routed and further layered and integrated into buying the immovable properties/shares among others.

The court will take up the chargesheet for consideration on July 20.

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