Rajiv worked as middleman in aircraft deal: Report

April 08, 2013 08:28

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According to a report in The Hindu, late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi may have worked as a middleman for Swedish company Saab-Scania, which had tried to sell its Viggen fighter aircraft to India in the 1970s.

Saab-Scania eventually could not seal the deal, which went to British SEPECAT Jaguar.

Rajiv was considered to be a valuable negotiator because of his family connections, states the paper, citing the Kissinger Cables, the latest bunch of classified cables of the US administration released by WikiLeaks.

Read the full report here

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