The CBI on Saturday filed a supplementary chargesheet in the AgustaWestland chopper scam case against controversial businessman Rajeev Saxena and then Managing Director of AgustaWestland International Ltd Giacomino Saponaro.
In its final report filed before Special Judge Arvind Kumar, the CBI has named 15 accused persons, which includes Saponaro and Saxena among others. The court is likely to take up the matter for consideration of the chargesheet on Monday.
The investigation report filed on Friday details the alleged role played by Saponaro and Saxena among others in delivering bribes to politicians, bureaucrats and Indian Air Force (IAF) officials for swinging the deal for supply of the VVIP copters.
Dubai-based businessman Saxena was the director of Interstellar Technologies Ltd, Mauritius.
The CBI had earlier this year sought sanction from the Centre to prosecute former Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma but has not named him as an accused in the chargesheet for want of permission from the Government. The agency told the court that it may file another supplementary chargesheet in the matter later. The first chargesheet in the case was filed in September 2017 naming former IAF Chief SP Tyagi and 11 others.
Besides Saxena and Saponaro, those named in the supplementary chargesheet are Sandeep Tyagi, Praveen Bakshi, Partap Krishan Aggarwal, then managing director of IDS Infotech Ltd., India, Narendra Kumar Jain, Rajesh Kumar Jain of Kolkata, Sunil Kothari, then managing director of OM Metals Infotech Pvt. Ltd, KV Kunhikrishnan, former GM, Westland Support Services Ltd., New Delhi, an associate of Christian Michel James, Deepak Goyal, an official of Gautam Khaitan, IDS Infotech Ltd., Mohali/Chandigarh, (through its managing director P.K. Aggarwal), Aeromatrix Info Solutions Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (through its director Gautam Khaitan), Neel Madhav Consultants Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (through its director Sandeep Tyagi), Mainak Agency Pvt. Ltd., earlier at Kolkata, now New Delhi (through its directors Sandeep Tyagi & Sanjeev Tyagi and Interstellar Technologies Ltd, Mauritius (through its director Rajiv Saxena).