{"id":410135,"date":"2021-04-09T10:57:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T05:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410135"},"modified":"2021-04-09T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T06:35:21","slug":"kickbacks-in-rafale-deal-french-portal-mediapart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kickbacks-in-rafale-deal-french-portal-mediapart\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickbacks in Rafale deal: French portal Mediapart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French online news portal Mediapart, which has been pursuing the cover-up in France of the misdeeds in the Rafale deal with India, on Thursday reported that Sushen Gupta, a defence dealer under investigation by the Enforcement Directorate for money laundering in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, received \u201ckickbacks\u201d to influence the purchase of the 36 aircraft in flyaway condition. <\/p>\n<p>Citing the ED investigation, which said Gupta also \u201creceived kickbacks\u201d to influence the result of \u201cother defence deals\u201d, the Mediapart report states it has information that one such deal is \u201cthe inter-governmental agreement signed in 2016 for the 7.8-billion-euro sale by France to India of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft, built by Dassault Aviation\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French online news portal Mediapart, which has been pursuing the cover-up in France of the misdeeds in the Rafale deal with India, on Thursday reported that Sushen Gupta, a defence dealer under investigation by the Enforcement Directorate for money laundering in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, received \u201ckickbacks\u201d to influence the purchase of the 36 aircraft in flyaway condition. Citing the ED investigation, which said Gupta also \u201creceived kickbacks\u201d to influence the result of \u201cother defence deals\u201d, the Mediapart report states it has information that one such deal is \u201cthe inter-governmental agreement signed in 2016 for the 7.8-billion-euro sale by France [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410135","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=410135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}