Middleman in Rafale deal kicks up dogfight between Congress and BJP
NEW DELHI: The newly inducted Rafale fighter jets flew into a fresh storm with a French online journal claiming that manufacturer Dassault Aviation paid 1 million euro to an Indian middleman as gift after the Rs 58,000 crore government-to-government deal in 2016 for 36 jets for the Indian Air Force.
The suspect payment was detected by French anti-corruption agency, Agence Française Anticorruption (AFA), during audit, revealed Mediapart.
