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Ratul Puri arranged payments worth $6.5L in Rajiv Saxena's cos through Michel's co

By IANS | Updated: November 6, 2020 19:20 IST

New Delhi, Nov 6 Ratul Puri, the nephew of Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal ...

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New Delhi, Nov 6 Ratul Puri, the nephew of Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, arranged money to the tune of $6.5 lakh in the bank accounts of Dubai-based hawala operator Rajiv Saxena's companies in 2011 from Biritsh national and alleged middleman Christian Michel James's Global Services FZE, the CBI claimed in its supplementary chargesheet filed in connection with the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case.

The findings have been mentioned in the statement of a prosecution witness, who earlier worked with Saxena's Dubai-based company, UHY Saxena, and was later promoted as the Finance Manager.

The copy of the statement, which is part of 12,421-page chargesheet filed in a Delhi court last month, has been viewed by .

The CBI said Shahnawaz Khan, a Hyderabad-based resident who shifted to Dubai in 2004 and started working with Saxena's company UHY Saxena, claimed in his statement: "Ratul used to visit the office of UHY Saxena in Dubai and had meetings with Rajiv Saxena."

He said Naveen Batra and Rajeev Aggarwal, both directors of Puri's Moser Baer Engineering and Construction Ltd

( With inputs from IANS )

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