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Home / News / Politics News / Marines for evidence: Congress questions PMO
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    Marines for evidence: Congress questions PMO

    Vaneet Randhawa
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    Last updated on Feb 03, 2016, 06:05 pm
    Marines for evidence: Congress questions PMO
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  • The Congress questioned the PMO, as reports erupted in the Kolkata-based Telegraph daily that the Modi government had offered the freedom of the 2 Italian marines in exchange for proof connecting Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to the AgustaWestland copter scam.

    Congress party's chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala said that the "PMO needs to answer on this issue".

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    PM offered marine tradeoff: Wanted Agent The Italian Marine case Modi-Renzi 'brush-by' meeting The AgustaWestland scam Ill fated timing of the allegations External affairs ministry calls charges 'ridiculous' Marines for evidence: Congress questions PMO
  • 2 Feb 2016

    PM offered marine tradeoff: Wanted Agent

    PM offered marine tradeoff: Wanted Agent
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  • Christian Michel, a British arms agent wanted in a helicopter scam has attacked the Modi government for offering to trade-off the Italian marines in return of information against the Gandhis in the 2013 AgustaWestland case.

    The agent wrote so in a letter to the International Tribunal of the Law of the Seas in Hamburg and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).

  • Information

    The Italian Marine case

  • The Italian marines are facing trial for shooting 2 Kerala fishermen in February 2012 and the case against them has led to the deterioration of India's relationship with Italy, "once an important defence partner, to its lowest since Independence."

  • 2 Feb 2016

    Modi-Renzi 'brush-by' meeting

    Modi-Renzi 'brush-by' meeting
  • The agent contended that Italian PM Renzi and Modi met at a secret "brush-by" meeting during the UN General Assembly in September 2015 when both leaders were in New York.

    Modi asked Renzi to ascertain if the "key adviser to Finmeccanica/ AgustaWestland"- Christian Michel had any links to Sonia Gandhi or her family.

    In return, they would be assisted in solving the marine case.

  • Information

    The AgustaWestland scam

  • The AgustaWestland scam pertains to bribery under the Congress' tenure. The Italian firm Finmeccanica is accused of having won the contract to supply 12 choppers to India for Rs.3,600 crore by bribing top-brass leadership.

  • Allegations

    Ill fated timing of the allegations

    Ill fated timing of the allegations
  • The allegations by Christian Michel come at a misplaced time as India and Italy are trying to resolve the "political differences over the marines' case even as legal proceedings are continuing internationally."

    The Permanent Court of Arbitration has even chalked out a plan through 2016 for testimonies by India and Italy.

    However, neither nation expects the other to drop legal proceedings.

  • 2 Feb 2016

    External affairs ministry calls charges 'ridiculous'

    External affairs ministry calls charges 'ridiculous'
    Credits:
  • The Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said that the charges were "too ridiculous to comment on" when asked for the government's response.

    However, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs couldn't refute Michel's contention of "brush-by" meeting between Modi and Renzi.

    They cited that with "so many world leaders there", it was likely that a 'brief conversation' took place.

  • 3 Feb 2016

    Marines for evidence: Congress questions PMO

    Marines for evidence: Congress questions PMO
    Credits:
  • The Congress questioned the PMO, as reports erupted in the Kolkata-based Telegraph daily that the Modi government had offered the freedom of the 2 Italian marines in exchange for proof connecting Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to the AgustaWestland copter scam.

    Congress party's chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala said that the "PMO needs to answer on this issue".

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