{"id":409465,"date":"2021-04-06T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T06:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=409465"},"modified":"2021-04-06T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T07:26:09","slug":"arrested-in-agusta-case-middleman-named-in-deal-to-make-rafale-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/arrested-in-agusta-case-middleman-named-in-deal-to-make-rafale-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested in Agusta case, middleman named in deal to make Rafale models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dassault Aviation, the manufacturer of French combat jet Rafale, paid at least Euros 508,925 against an invoice for Euro 1 million raised by an Indian firm controlled by a middleman \u2014 Sushen Gupta \u2014 already under investigation in the AgustaWestland case, French online investigative journal Mediapart reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This alleged payment came to light during a scheduled audit of Dassault\u2019s 2017 accounts by French anti-corruption agency AFA. While Dassault claimed the money was used to pay Defsys Solutions for manufacturing 50 large replica models of Rafale jets soon after the signing of the Indo-French contract in 2016, according to Mediapart, the company could not furnish any proof to AFA that these models were indeed made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dassault Aviation, the manufacturer of French combat jet Rafale, paid at least Euros 508,925 against an invoice for Euro 1 million raised by an Indian firm controlled by a middleman \u2014 Sushen Gupta \u2014 already under investigation in the AgustaWestland case, French online investigative journal Mediapart reported Monday. This alleged payment came to light during a scheduled audit of Dassault\u2019s 2017 accounts by French anti-corruption agency AFA. While Dassault claimed the money was used to pay Defsys Solutions for manufacturing 50 large replica models of Rafale jets soon after the signing of the Indo-French contract in 2016, according to Mediapart, [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409465","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=409465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}