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VVIP chopper deal: Khaitan sent to five-day custody

ED prosecutor Naveen Kumar Matta told the court that the agency wanted his custody to confront him with documents in their possession.

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Businessman Gautam Khaitan was remanded to five-day Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody by a Delhi court on Tuesday in connection with the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland deal case.

ED prosecutor Naveen Kumar Matta told the court that the agency wanted his custody to confront him with documents in their possession. The agency said they have 188 documents that need to be confronted in order to “trace the proceeds of crime”. The ED also told the court that they are in the process of retrieving ‘crucial data’ recovered from one hard disk and 2 cellphones. “The data is expected to come on October 3,” the ED prosecutor told Metropolitan Magistrate Sunil Kumar Sharma.

The ED also said they found that 70 million euros was paid as kickbacks.

Kaunain Sheriff M is an award-winning investigative journalist and the National Health Editor at The Indian Express. He is the author of Johnson & Johnson Files: The Indian Secrets of a Global Giant, an investigation into one of the world’s most powerful pharmaceutical companies. With over a decade of experience, Kaunain brings deep expertise in three areas of investigative journalism: law, health, and data. He currently leads The Indian Express newsroom’s in-depth coverage of health. His work has earned some of the most prestigious honours in journalism, including the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Award, and the Mumbai Press Club’s Red Ink Award. Kaunain has also collaborated on major global investigations. He was part of the Implant Files project with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which exposed malpractices in the medical device industry across the world. He also contributed to an international investigation that uncovered how a Chinese big-data firm was monitoring thousands of prominent Indian individuals and institutions in real time. Over the years, he has reported on several high-profile criminal trials, including the Hashimpura massacre, the 2G spectrum scam, and the coal block allocation case. Within The Indian Express, he has been honoured three times with the Indian Express Excellence Award for his investigations—on the anti-Sikh riots, the Vyapam exam scam, and the abuse of the National Security Act in Uttar Pradesh. ... Read More

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