{"id":385458,"date":"2020-11-21T11:16:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385458"},"modified":"2020-11-21T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:46:48","slug":"vvip-chopper-scam-british-high-commission-former-uk-minister-played-key-role-christian-michel-tells-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vvip-chopper-scam-british-high-commission-former-uk-minister-played-key-role-christian-michel-tells-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"VVIP chopper scam: British High Commission, former UK minister played key role, Christian Michel tells ED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Michel James, an alleged middleman arrested in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper scam cases, has told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that a former UK minister and the British High Commission played a pivotal role in accessing classified information from the Indian government which eventually helped AgustaWestland secure the deal.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of statements to the ED, accessed exclusively by ET, Michel named a former UK minister, who he usually referred to as \u201cBoss\u201d, and said the minister and officials of the British High Commission were part of a \u201cteam\u201d to ensure the Anglo-Italian company bagged the deal. In response to a query by ED \u201cwhether do you (Michel) have any contact with your father\u2019s client\u201d, Michel replied \u201cMrs Gandi&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Michel James, an alleged middleman arrested in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper scam cases, has told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that a former UK minister and the British High Commission played a pivotal role in accessing classified information from the Indian government which eventually helped AgustaWestland secure the deal. In a series of statements to the ED, accessed exclusively by ET, Michel named a former UK minister, who he usually referred to as \u201cBoss\u201d, and said the minister and officials of the British High Commission were part of a \u201cteam\u201d to ensure the Anglo-Italian company bagged the deal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-385458","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\/385458","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}