Agusta Westland deal: Personal trainers shareholders, money also from other deals

From attempting a cover-up after authorities opened a probe to floating a new company with his personal trainers as shareholders to laundering of proceeds from other defence deals — these are among the admissions made, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claims, by chartered accountant Rajiv Saxena, key accused in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case, during questioning.

Currently on bail, Saxena was extradited from Dubai in January 2019 and was interrogated by the ED which attached his assets worth Rs 385 crore, describing them as “proceeds of crime”. The ED has now filed an appeal in a bid to divest Saxena of his approver status for allegedly not fully disclosing the facts of the case.