AgustaWestland Scam: Court Rejects Christian Michel’s Bail Pleas
Special Judge Arvind Kumar said that there was no sufficient ground to grant the relief.
A Delhi court on Saturday, 7 September, dismissed the bail applications of alleged middleman Christian Michel who was arrested in connection with the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case, PTI reported.
Special Judge Arvind Kumar rejected Michel's applications in cases filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), saying there was no sufficient ground to grant the relief. Michel, extradited from Dubai, was arrested by the ED on 22 December last year.
The court had earlier reserved its order on his bail application on 29 August.
On 5 January, he was sent to judicial custody in the ED case. He is also in custody for his involvement in another case, lodged by CBI in connection with the chopper scam.
Michel is among the three alleged middlemen being probed in the case by the ED and the CBI. The other two are Guido Haschke and Carlo Gerosa.
On Thursday, 5 September sent Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, to 6-day ED custody in a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland chopper scam.
(With inputs from PTI)
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