Reports suggest he will be in India by next week.
The Dubai government has passed an administrative order which will allow Agusta Westland middleman Christian Michel to be extradited.
The alleged conduit of the Rs 3600 crore AgustaWestland chopper deal has been the subject of an investigation by Indian authorities and earlier a Dubai top court had ruled that he could be extradited.
Economic Times reported that Indian authorities are in Dubai to complete the legal arrangement. The Dubai government’s go-ahead was awaited since a top court upheld a lower court’s order saying he could be extradited.
Meanwhile, CNN-News 18 reported that Michel would be brought to India next week. He will be produced to Patiala House Court, the PMLA court and a CBI court.
The news will come as a huge sigh of relief for the Modi government which has been besieged by claims of impropriety and being lax with economic offenders.
His lawyers had argued that courts in Italy and Switzerland had declined to extradite his client.
In September, some media reports had said a Dubai court had ordered Michel's extradition to India, However, the MEA said they hadn’t received any intimation from the UAE govt about the case.
Michel had earlier claimed that he would be allowed to 'walk free' if he implicated Sonia Gandhi and Ahmed Patel.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), in its charge sheet filed against Michel in June 2016, had alleged he received EUR 30 million (about Rs 225 crore) from AgustaWestland.
Michel is one of the three middlemen being probed in the case, besides Guido Haschke and Carlo Gerosa, by the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Both the agencies had notified an Interpol Red Corner Notice against him after the court issued a non-bailable warrant.
On January 1, 2014, India scrapped the contract with Finmeccanica's British subsidiary AgustaWestland for supplying 12 AW-101 VVIP choppers to the IAF over alleged breach of contractual obligations and charges of paying kickbacks to the tune of Rs 423 crore by it for securing the deal.
The CBI has alleged there was an estimated loss of Euro 398.21 million (approximately Rs 2,666 crore) to the exchequer in the deal that was signed on February 8, 2010 for the supply of VVIP choppers worth Euro 556.262 million.
With inputs from PTI
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