{"id":306599,"date":"2018-12-05T04:55:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306599"},"modified":"2018-12-05T04:55:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:55:45","slug":"agustawestland-deal-middleman-christian-michel-brought-to-india-after-extradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/agustawestland-deal-middleman-christian-michel-brought-to-india-after-extradition\/","title":{"rendered":"AgustaWestland deal \u2018middleman\u2019 Christian Michel brought to India after extradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306600 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christian-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/christian-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/christian.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the Rs 3600 crore\u00a0AgustaWestland\u00a0chopper deal, arrived in\u00a0New Delhi\u00a0on Tuesday midnight after being extradited to\u00a0India\u00a0from\u00a0Dubai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was taken to the CBI headquarters, where he was questioned through the night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Michel is likely to be produced before court on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While extraditing Michel from UAE, CBI had given a statement on Tuesday, \u201cWanted fugitive criminal Christian Michel James who has been avoiding criminal proceedings in India in AgustaWestland Case is being extradited by UAE Authorities to India. Under the guidance of Ajit Doval, National Security Advisor (NSA), the entire operation is being coordinated by Incharge Director\/CBI M. Nageswara Rao. A team lead by A. Sai Manohar, Joint Director\/CBI has been to Dubai for the purpose.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CBI said, Wolfgang Max Richard Michel, father of Christian, was also a\u00a0consultant\u00a0of AgustaWestland,\u00a0UK for the Indian territory in 1980s, had reportedly acted as a\u00a0mediator\u00a0in other countries too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWolfgang Michel promoted three companies UCM International Trading Limited, Entera Corporation and Ferro-Imports Limited. Between 1987 and 1996,\u00a0Entera Corporation\u00a0reportedly earned more than two million pounds from India,\u201d CBI added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The AgustaWestland case involves the VIP helicopter deal when Manmohan Singh&#8217;s Congress-led coalition was in power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has accused Michel of receiving 30 million Euros from AgustaWestland as kickbacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Extradition proceedings were held before\u00a0UAE Court against Christian\u00a0Michel on the extradition request of CBI. In November, the\u00a0Court of Dubai\u00a0upheld the lower court decision for possibility of extraditing Christian to Indian authorities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the Rs 3600 crore\u00a0AgustaWestland\u00a0chopper deal, arrived in\u00a0New Delhi\u00a0on Tuesday midnight after being extradited to\u00a0India\u00a0from\u00a0Dubai. He was taken to the CBI headquarters, where he was questioned through the night. Michel is likely to be produced before court on Wednesday. While extraditing Michel from UAE, CBI had given a statement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4953,5139,2423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306601,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306599\/revisions\/306601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}