Addressing a rally in Rajasthan's Pali on the last day of campaigning before the state elections on Friday, Modi said Christian Michel will now spill secrets.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that Christian Michel James, the alleged middleman in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland chopper deal from the UPA era, will now spill secrets.
Addressing a rally in Rajasthan's Pali on the last day of campaigning before the state elections on Friday, Modi said, "The government has brought the middleman involved in a helicopter scam from Dubai. He served politicians and will now disclose secrets."
"Ab raazdar raaz kholega, pata nahi baat kahan tak jayegi, kitni duur tak jayegi (The secret-keeper (confidant) will now disclose secrets. Who knows how far this will go)," he said in Sumerpur town.
Michel was brought to India late Tuesday night following his extradition by the UAE in connection with the case.
Michel, 54, landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on a Gulfstream jet at 10.35 pm Tuesday night after which he was arrested by the CBI in connection with the case.
He will be produced before Special CBI Judge Arvind Kumar today.
Michel is one of the three middlemen being probed in the case, besides Guido Haschke and Carlo Gerosa, by the ED and the CBI. Both the agencies have notified an Interpol red corner notice (RCN) against him after the court issued a non-bailable warrant against him.
However, Michel had denied the charges.
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.
On January 1, 2014, India scrapped the contract with Italy-based 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 on September 1, 2017, had filed a charge sheet in the case in which Michel was named as one of the accused.
Former IAF Chief S P Tyagi was also chargesheeted by the CBI in a Delhi Court along with nine others in connection with a bribery case in the VVIP chopper deal.
(With PTI inputs)
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