Congress promotes information about bribery in Rafale deal, bribes had been paid throughout UPA period

Mediapart printed a brand new ‘expose’ on the Rafale deal alleging funds had been made to a intermediary to safe the deal. However, the funds had been made when the UPA Government was in energy, the ‘fake invoices’ printed by the French media portal revealed.
Nonetheless, earlier than studying the precise content material of the ‘expose’, Congress accounts on social media leapt on to the matter to accuse the NDA Government on the middle of corruption. In actuality, the funds had been made earlier than Narendra Modi turned Prime Minister and initiatives the Congress occasion itself in poor gentle.
Congress accounts goal Narendra Modi, NDA Govt over Mediapart ‘expose’ on the Rafale Deal
Telangana Pradesh Congress Sevadal used the report to assert that it was proof of ‘Rafale Scam’.
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Rohan Gupta, Chairman of the Social Media Department of the Indian National Congress, requested, “How long can you cover up theft?”
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Surbhi, a state coordinator for Odisha Pradesh Congress Sevadal, shared the report with nice enthusiasm, blissfully ignoring that the kickbacks within the new ‘expose’ had been made when the Congress occasion was in energy.
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Vijay Thottathil, a Congress activist, used the report to assert that India is now a banana republic.
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Media sings Congress tunes
The media, too, performed its half in selling the narrative favoured by the Congress occasion. They had been cautious to not point out of their tweets that the funds to middlemen had been made within the Congress period. NDTV, as anticipated, was on the forefront of it.
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Again, as anticipated, The Wire was a part of the charade as properly.
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Others had been extra refined in peddling their agenda.
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What does the brand new Mediapart ‘expose’ on the Rafale Deal say?
The Mediapart report detailing its new ‘expose’, mentioned, “It involves offshore companies, dubious contracts and ‘false’ invoices. Mediapart can reveal that detectives from India’s federal police force, the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), and colleagues from the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which fights money laundering, have had proof since October 2018 that Dassault paid at least €7.5 million in secret commissions to middleman Sushen Gupta.”
The ‘fake invoices’ cited by Mediapart occurred when the UPA Government was in energy. According to the invoices, funds totaling round 11 million Euros had been made to a agency in Singapore. “According to an accounts spreadsheet belonging to Sushen Gupta, an entity called simply ‘D’, which is a code he regularly used to designate Dassault, paid €14.6 million to Interdev in Singapore over the period 2004-2013,” the media outlet’s personal report from April this yr mentioned.
Quite clearly, the invoices are associated to a deal that the UPA Government was making an attempt to make. After the NDA Government got here to energy, the UPA period deal was scrapped and the Indian Government secured a government-to-government deal that concerned India shopping for 36 Rafale jets immediately from the French Government. Then Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar had mentioned that the UPA period deal was not viable and had not been closed both.