{"id":409706,"date":"2021-04-07T12:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T06:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=409706"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T06:53:16","slug":"middleman-in-rafale-deal-kicks-up-dogfight-between-congress-and-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/middleman-in-rafale-deal-kicks-up-dogfight-between-congress-and-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Middleman in Rafale deal kicks up dogfight between Congress and BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect payment was detected by French anti-corruption agency, Agence Fran\u00e7aise Anticorruption (AFA), during audit, revealed Mediapart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Fran\u00e7aise Anticorruption (AFA), during audit, revealed Mediapart.<\/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":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409706","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=409706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}