Chopper scam: Queries to 11 countries, ED, CBI wait for replies

April 28, 2016 08:33

The CBI and Enforcement Directorate, probing alleged corruption in the supply of 12 helicopters to India, have almost completed the "domestic part' of the investigation, but are awaiting leads from abroad to go further.

Sources in the two agencies said they were waiting for replies to their letters rogatory sent to several countries to piece together the financial trail of alleged bribes paid in India. CBI and ED also want UK national and alleged middleman James Christian Michel to be extradited to India.

The agencies have so far depended on evidence and documents available from people in India involved in the deal, which they said are yet to produce 'prosecutable evidence' against the accused or establish the alleged bribe money trail.

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