{"id":339926,"date":"2020-03-02T11:09:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T05:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339926"},"modified":"2020-03-02T11:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:27:52","slug":"agusta-chopper-scam-two-government-officials-claim-secret-information-was-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/agusta-chopper-scam-two-government-officials-claim-secret-information-was-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"Agusta chopper scam: Two government officials claim secret information was leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Two government officials involved in the procurement process of the Rs 3,600-cr VVIP helicopter deal have testified that confidential information was leaked to a retired air force official hired by alleged middleman Christian Michel, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>The duo \u2014 a former Indian Air Force official and a member of the then Defence Procurement Board \u2014have recently deposed in a special court as CBI witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>In their testimonies also, recorded under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code before a judicial magistrate, the two had disclosed that classified information on the deal was shared with the retired air force official, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Two government officials involved in the procurement process of the Rs 3,600-cr VVIP helicopter deal have testified that confidential information was leaked to a retired air force official hired by alleged middleman Christian Michel, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The duo \u2014 a former Indian Air Force official and a member of the then Defence Procurement Board \u2014have recently deposed in a special court as CBI witnesses. In their testimonies also, recorded under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code before a judicial magistrate, the two had disclosed that classified information on the deal was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}