New blast in Raphael deal: Rs 65 crore bribe was given

- Agencies like CBI and ED were already aware of this bribery scam

- The bribe was paid to Indian middleman broker Susan Gupta with the help of fake bills and a shell company

New Delhi: An online magazine called Mediapart from France has made a brand new claim regarding the Raphael warplane deal. The magazine claimed that Dassault, a French company that manufactures Raphael aircraft, paid a bribe of 3 lakh euros (Rs 5 crore) to middleman Susan Gupta with the help of fake bills to settle its deal. ) But they deliberately turned a blind eye to the incident and did not take any action against the middleman Dalal Gupta.

The report, published by the magazine, said that despite all the documentary evidence that the middleman had been bribed, the Indian agencies had decided not to pursue the case.

It is worth mentioning that India has spent Rs. 2000 crore deal. Mediapart also claimed last July that a French judge had been appointed to conduct an independent and impartial inquiry into whether the alleged deal was bribed. However, no response has been received from the Indian Ministry of Defense or Dassault. The magazine also said in another report on Sunday that it was also publishing a copy of the bill by which Dassault had bribed an Indian broker through false bills. According to the magazine, the whole deal was done with the help of fake bills, false contracts and some offshore companies. The magazine also claimed that agencies like India's CBI and ED had been aware of the bribe since 1914. Earlier, there were serious allegations of large-scale bribery in the Raphael deal, but India's defense ministry and France's Dassault have repeatedly denied the allegations, dismissing them as baseless. In addition, the Supreme Court of India rejected an application seeking an inquiry into the case, saying there was no concrete basis for an inquiry into the case.

A report published by Mediapart Magazine in April 2011 also emphasized that it had "documentary evidence" which clearly indicated that Dassault and another partner, Thales, had joined hands to bribe an Indian intermediary broker for a secret commission. Gave a bribe. In response to the report, which was released last April, Dassault clarified that it had not paid any middlemen or commissions to complete the deal and that the company was compliant with all anti-bribery laws in the country.

A report published in the magazine in April said that a large part of the amount earmarked for the deal was paid before 2014. According to details of a bank account linked to Susan Gupta, a company called D (a sign language used for Dassault) made a payment of 12.5 million euros (૨૫ 12.5 million) to a shell company called Interdu, which operated in Singapore between 2005 and 2016. Did. In fact, Interdu was a cell company that did not engage in any kind of physical business and was run by a person belonging to the Gupta family.