So, Rahul Gandhi was proper in any case. Rafale deal does have a rip-off. A UPA rip-off

Mediapart, a French on-line portal has bolstered Rahul Gandhi’s long-standing allegations that the acquisition of Rafale jets had some sort of rip-off or one other, nonetheless with a twist. The information portal has claimed {that a} intermediary named Sushen Gupta, obtained pay-offs of pretend invoices to ‘facilitate’ the Rafale deal throughout the UPA regime. Reportedly, Gupta obtained 7.5 million euros as kickbacks between 2007 and 2012.  According to the French web site, the bribes have been paid to Gupta by his Mauritius entity Interstellar, within the guise of “dubious IT contracts”. The report learn, “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.”  Source: Mediapart Mediapart sensationally additionally claimed that Indian companies didn’t pursue the case regardless of the existence of the pretend invoices – suggesting that 24, Akbar Road may need had a component to play in suspending the investigation. Mediapart prior to now has tried to nook the NDA authorities for the Rafale rip-off by twisting the narrative and cherry-picking info to string collectively a whimsical story. However, in trying to take action, it has as soon as once more opened the pandora field of UPAs lengthy checklist of scams. Sushen Gupta – an influential UPA period intermediary It is pertinent to notice that Sushen Mohan Gupta was a really influential intermediary throughout the UPA period. In 2019, he was arrested within the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case, one other defence deal rip-off value crores in throughout the UPA authorities.  In the AugustaWestland VVIP chopper deal, Gupta had made tens of millions of Euros and was concurrently minting cash within the Rafale deal by receiving the aforementioned kickbacks.  According to investigation companies, within the AugustaWestland VVIP chopper deal, “More than Rs 50 crore shown to have been received from ‘RG’ between 2004 to 2016, whereas the ‘RG’ identified by Gupta, i.e., Rajat Gupta, had admitted to have cash transactions with Sushen from 2007 onwards and the same are being quantified.” Read More: While making an attempt to tarnish Modi govt, Congress exposes its personal ‘Rafale scam’ and it must be investigatedRahul and Congress digging a grave for themselvesBefore the 2019 common election, Congress tried tooth and nail to dig a rip-off out of the Rafale deal. The celebration deployed its loonies within the left-liberal media institution to create a narrative out of skinny air and tarnish the picture of the Modi authorities. The Congress celebration tried to tackle the Modi authorities on the Rafale deal however the equations have now turned the precise reverse as a result of the Congress-led UPA authorities is now underneath query for 14.6 million Euros of kickbacks paid for the deal. Read More: Rahul Gandhi’s bundle of lies in regards to the Rafale dealAfter the NDA Government got here to energy, the UPA-era deal was scrapped and the Indian Government secured a government-to-government deal that concerned India shopping for 36 Rafale jets straight from the French Government. The UPA deal, struck in 2012, was not a viable one, the then defence minister Manohar Parrikar maintained, implying that it will have by no means been closed and that, subsequently, any comparability was moot.