In June, the ED told a Delhi special court that Christian Michel allegedly received Euro 30 million as kickbacks and sent cash packets to various people through his driver and regularly met Indian individuals, including cousins of S P Tyagi, while brokering the deal.
to investigations conducted by CBI and ED, in the offset category (work to be mandatorily done in India), AgustaWestland set aside Euro 70 million which would be transferred to the companies floated by two groups of alleged middlemen one led by Haschke and Gerosa and the other by Christian Michel.
To facilitate this, a maze of companies was created to move money across borders and camouflage bribes. While Christian Michel set up Global Services FZE in Dubai, Haschke set up IDS Tunisia, IDS Mauritius and Aeromatrix. Michel was supposed to get Euro 42 million while Haschke was to be given Euro
Individuals named in the FIR include Finmeccanica officials Giuseppe Orsi and Bruno Spagnolini, the Tyagi family, alleged middlemen Carlo Gerosa, Christian Michel and Guido Haschke, advocate Gautam Khaitan, formerly associated with Aeromatrix, and its CEO Praveen Bakshi.
codes like AP, Fam, Pol and Bur against payments that needed to be made. The codes, officials said, have been interpreted as Ahmed Patel, family of S P Tyagi, politicians and bureaucrats respectively. Christian Michel, however, claimed that this document was forged by Haschke.