AgustaWestland: Rajiv Saxena moves court to become approver
Dubai-based businessman Rajiv Saxena on Wednesday moved an
application in a Delhi court seeking to become an approver in the
AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case.
Special Judge
Arvind Kumar asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file a response
on Saxena’s plea and listed it for hearing on Thursday.
Saxena
told the court in his application that he has co-operated in the
investigation and disclosed the entire facts as known to him.
He said he will make a full disclosure of the case if he was granted pardon.
Saxena also told the court that he had moved the application on his free will.
He was granted bail on Monday. The ED did not oppose Saxena’s bail plea on medical grounds.
Saxena told the court that he was suffering from radiating back pain, numbness and heaviness in legs along with other ailments.
United
Arab Emirates (UAE) security agencies picked Saxena from his Dubai
residence on January 30 and extradited him to India that night.
According
to the ED, in connivance with lawyer Gautam Khaitan, Saxena provided a
corporate structure across the globe to laundered money for payment to
various political leaders, bureaucrats and Indian Air Force officials to
influence the contract for supplying 12 VVIP helicopters in favour of
AgustaWestland.
Saxena’s name was mentioned in a chargesheet
filed against his wife Shivani, who has been out on bail after being
arrested by the ED.







