The former Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi’s cousins and their firms received €1.05 million in kickbacks from AgustaWestland-UK through middlemen to help swing the Rs. 3,700-crore VVIP chopper deal in its favour, the Enforcement Directorate has said.
The directorate has provisionally attached five prime properties in Kaushambi and Noida in Uttar Pradesh and in Gurgaon in Haryana, worth Rs.6.2 crore on paper, allegedly belonging to Sanjeev, Sandeep and Rajeev Tyagi. “In connection with the procurement of 12 helicopters from AgustaWestland, a subsidiary of Italian firm Finmeccanica, a bribe of about 58 million euros was allegedly paid through Christian Michel, Carlo Gerosa and Guido Ralph Haschke [alleged middlemen]. It was alleged that the kickback amount was paid to various people who helped in the deal,” said the ED statement.
