A Delhi court on Saturday sent Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal, to judicial custody in a related money laundering case.
Special Judge Arvind Kumar sent Mr. Michel to judicial custody till January 26 when the Enforcement Directorate produced him in the court on completion of his 14-day police remand.
Mr. Michel has been remanded to judicial custody till January 27 in the corruption case being probed by the CBI.
Probe fruitful, says ED
Earlier, Special Public Prosecutors for the Directorate, D. P. Singh and N. K. Matta, submitted before the the court that probe had so far been fruitful.
The Directorate arrested Mr. Michel on December 22. A British national , Mr. Michel was extradited to India from the United Arab Emirates on December 4. His role in the purchase of 12 helicopters surfaced in 2012 as a middleman for swinging the deal in favour of AgustaWestland and making illegal payments to Indian officials.
The probe agency filed a charge sheet in the case in 2017. It alleged a loss of about ₹2,666 crore to the exchequer due to the scam.
