Whistleblower to handover leaked data disk to Oz Govt, says daily

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The ‘whistleblower’ behind the Scorpene document leak will hand over the disk containing thousands of pages of data detailing the Indian submarine's stealth and warfare capabilities, to the Australian Government on Monday, The Australian newspaper on Friday said.

It said that the identity of the unnamed whistleblower is already known to the Australian authorities.

The weekend edition of the newspaper said that neither France nor India knew about the leak till Monday afternoon when it sought a comment from French firm DCNS.

The paper said whistleblower wants Australia to know that its future submarine partner, France has already lost control over secret data  on India's new submarines.     

Daily Pioneer
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