{"id":454642,"date":"2021-12-07T10:52:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T05:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454642"},"modified":"2021-12-07T12:15:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T06:45:32","slug":"from-firms-listening-in-delhi-hotel-to-a-list-of-96-contacts-what-christian-michel-told-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/from-firms-listening-in-delhi-hotel-to-a-list-of-96-contacts-what-christian-michel-told-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"From firms listening in Delhi hotel to a list of 96 contacts, what Christian Michel told ED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate, Christian Michel, the British middleman in the VIP helicopter bribery scam, opens a window to how arms agents navigate the Indian landscape by revealing some of his strategies, including how he initially masked the helicopter deal bid as a UK firm\u2019s project to brighten its chances. He, however, disowned several documents he was confronted with, and fax dispatches he had allegedly dictated personally \u2014 even in front of key witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three days, The Indian Express reported key revelations from the ED\u2019s interrogation, including Michel\u2019s claims on how he lobbied the then UPA Government to salvage the deal in 2010, an intervention by then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton \u2014 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate, Christian Michel, the British middleman in the VIP helicopter bribery scam, opens a window to how arms agents navigate the Indian landscape by revealing some of his strategies, including how he initially masked the helicopter deal bid as a UK firm\u2019s project to brighten its chances. He, however, disowned several documents he was confronted with, and fax dispatches he had allegedly dictated personally \u2014 even in front of key witnesses. Over the past three days, The Indian Express reported key revelations from the ED\u2019s interrogation, including Michel\u2019s claims on how he lobbied the [&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-454642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454642","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=454642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}