Rafale row: Sushen Gupta legal team breaks silence over alleged payments, dubs reports baseless
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New Delhi, April 9 : Days after a French news portal alleged that a middleman was paid several million euros by Dassault Aviation, makers of Rafale fighter jets, businessman Sushen Mohan Gupta s legal team broke its silence and denied all the allegations as fabricated and baseless .
The legal team claimed that neither Gupta nor his companies were involved in any manner in the Indo-French transaction for the acquisition of 36 fighter jets. The remarks from the businessman s legal team came days after a French news portal, Mediapart, in three investigative reports claimed that it was in possession of documents that showed Dassault Aviation, which manufactures the Rafale jet, and its industrial partner Thales, a defence electronics firm, paid middleman Gupta several million euros in secret commis
Rafale deal | Sushen Gupta not involved, says his counsel
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Counsel of arms dealer Sushen Gupta has termed the series of reports in the French media of kickbacks in the 2016 €7.87 billion Rafale deal between India and France as “false, baseless and mischievous”.
Counsel of Mr. Gupta, who is said to have received the kickbacks, said the reports seemed to be “motivated” and Mr. Gupta or his companies were “not involved” in any manner in the Rafale deal.
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Mediapart claims that Dassault and Thales paid Gupta over nearly two decades, hiring him at the beginning of the 2000s. when India announced it was looking to buy 126 fighter jets , and that a key anti-corruption clause was deleted from the eventual contract France and India signed for this reason.
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New Delhi: Influential defence businessman Sushen Gupta, currently the subject of a money laundering investigation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the VVIP chopper scam, allegedly acted as an agent for Dassault Aviation in the controversial sale of Rafale jets to India and received millions of euros as commission from Dassault Aviation and its partner, Thales, a new report published by the Paris-based investigative website