The News Minute | October 17, 2014 | 03.30 pm IST
The investigation on Chopper scam is getting into a new phase with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) examining the 180 recovered files. The documents were recovered from the residence and offices of businessman Gautam Khaitan on September 23 in a search operation at his New Delhi residence.
The hard disk of the computer which contained these 180 documents was erased and regarding this ED had given a complaint in Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on October 13. The recovered documents reveal the details of an account belonging to a relative of Khaitan and it also shows a transaction of 50,000 Euros with a bank account in Mauritius, The Indian Express reported. The report also says that under section 17(4) of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), an application is being moved in court by ED to extend the custody of the documents.
The ED has arrested Khaitan and has booked an ex-IAF chief S P Tyagi and several other officials. The Preliminary Enquiry was laid down by CBI in February in 2013.
In the scam many politicians and military officials have been accused of accepting bribes from Agusta Westland to crack as Rs 36 billion deal for supplying 12 AW101 Agusta Westland helicopters.