Tyagi, who retired in 2007, was questioned by the CBI extensively in the past in this case. "This is the first time that a former IAF chief has been arrested by the central probe agency," official sources said.
Probe reveals undue favour was shown,AgustaWestland Ltd accepted illegal vendors through middlemen/relatives including Sanjeev Tyagi etc-CBI? ANI (@ANI_news) December 9, 2016
Arrested accused will be produced tomorrow before competent court in Delhi: CBI spox Devpreet Singh on AgustaWestland case pic.twitter.com/AcHb1QzhHm? ANI (@ANI_news) December 9, 2016
Total deal amount in AgustaWestland was Rs 3767 Crore and bribe amount was 12% of main amount: CBI? ANI (@ANI_news) December 9, 2016
The FIR filed by the CBI mentioned that Tyagi allegedly helped in swinging this deal, specifically by lowering the service height from 6,000m to 4,500m.
On January 1, 2014, India had scrapped the contract with Finmeccanica's British subsidiary AgustaWestland for supplying 12 AW-101 VVIP choppers to the IAF over alleged breach of contractual obligations and charges of paying kickbacks of Rs 423 crore by it for securing the deal.
CBI had also got issued Letters Rogatory (judicial requests) to multiple countries to gather more leads and evidences in this case.
AgustaWestland CEO Bruno Spagnolini and Guiseppe Orsi, chairman of AgustaWestland's parent company Finmeccanica, were arrested by Italian police in February 2013 on charges of paying bribes to win the deal.
(With PTI inputs)
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