NEW DELHI: A Special Court on Saturday remanded for five days businessman Anoop Gupta, arrested in the AgustaWestland Money Laundering case.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) who arrested Gupta produced him before Special CBI Judge Arvind Kumar on Saturday and sought 14 days remand to confront him with voluminous documents received through LRs to the other persons to unearth the larger conspiracy and money trail.
In the court, ED submitted that Euro 70 Million (proceeds of crime) were laundered through two channels for payments of kickbacks to various political persons, bureaucrats, air force officials and others to influence the contract for the supply of 12 VVIP Helicopters in favour of AgustaWestland International Limited.
ED arrests businessman Anoop Kumar Gupta in VVIP choppers money laundering case
ED sources said Anoop Kumar Gupta was arrested in the AgustaWestland VVIP choppers deal case and alleged he was not cooperating in the ongoing probe.
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NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested businessman Anoop Kumar Gupta in connection with a money laundering probe into the over Rs 3,600-crore VVIP choppers purchase scam case, official sources said on Saturday.
They said Gupta, the joint managing director of KRBL Limited that sells India Gate basmati rice, has been sent to five-day custody of the central probe agency after he was produced before a special court for cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) here.