{"id":409657,"date":"2021-04-07T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=409657"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T06:41:58","slug":"cong-seeks-probe-into-rafale-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cong-seeks-probe-into-rafale-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cong seeks probe into Rafale deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Monday sought a thorough probe into the Rafale defence deal and demanded answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after a French media report claimed that \u20ac1.1 million was paid to a \u201cmiddleman\u201d by the aircraft manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>AICC chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that a French news portal\u2019s report has proved that former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi\u2019s oft-repeated allegations of corruption in the deal were correct. Addressing a Press Conference Surjewala said as per the French portal\u2019s report, an investigation conducted by the \u2018French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA)\u2019 has revealed that after signing of the deal in 2016, Rafale\u2019s manufacturer Dassault allegedly paid \u20ac1.1 million to a middleman \u2014Defsys Solutions \u2014 which is an Indian company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Monday sought a thorough probe into the Rafale defence deal and demanded answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after a French media report claimed that \u20ac1.1 million was paid to a \u201cmiddleman\u201d by the aircraft manufacturer. AICC chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that a French news portal\u2019s report has proved that former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi\u2019s oft-repeated allegations of corruption in the deal were correct. Addressing a Press Conference Surjewala said as per the French portal\u2019s report, an investigation conducted by the \u2018French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA)\u2019 has revealed that after signing of the deal in 2016, Rafale\u2019s [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409657","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=409657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}