{"id":410195,"date":"2021-04-12T07:46:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T02:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410195"},"modified":"2021-04-12T08:08:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T02:38:02","slug":"rafale-row-india-cheated-to-tune-of-rs-21000-crore-alleges-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rafale-row-india-cheated-to-tune-of-rs-21000-crore-alleges-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafale row: India cheated to tune of Rs 21,000 crore, alleges Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Friday questioned the Narendra Modi-led government over the explosive revelations made by a French news portal in the Rafale deal alleging that there was &#8216;massive corruption&#8217; and &#8216;loss to public exchequer of at least Rs 21,075 crore. <\/p>\n<p>The remarks came after a French news portal mediapart.fr in a three series investigation claimed that it was in possession of documents that showed Dassault Aviation, which manufactures the Rafale jet, and its industrial partner Thales, a defence electronics firm, paid a &#8220;middleman&#8221; several million euros in &#8220;secret commissions&#8221; in connection with the Rs 59,000 crore deal for 36 jets for the Indian Air Force (IAF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Friday questioned the Narendra Modi-led government over the explosive revelations made by a French news portal in the Rafale deal alleging that there was &#8216;massive corruption&#8217; and &#8216;loss to public exchequer of at least Rs 21,075 crore. The remarks came after a French news portal mediapart.fr in a three series investigation claimed that it was in possession of documents that showed Dassault Aviation, which manufactures the Rafale jet, and its industrial partner Thales, a defence electronics firm, paid a &#8220;middleman&#8221; several million euros in &#8220;secret commissions&#8221; in connection with the Rs 59,000 crore deal for 36 jets [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410195","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=410195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}