Chopper deal: SIT on black money to help probe money trail

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money will assist in the probe into money trail of alleged kickbacks in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland choppers deal with Enforcement Directorate seeking its help to send abroad about half-a-dozen judicial requests for cooperation.

Official sources said the ED wanted to send about six Letters Rogatory (LRs) to various foreign shores to probe the money trail in this case while the CBI has already got issued five such legal requests through a Delhi court.

‘In order to avoid duplicity of task and asking of same questions by the two agencies, the ED has sought SIT’s help in obtaining the LRs already sent by CBI to various countries in this case’ sources said.

‘Whatever has not been asked by CBI and is essential from the point of view of money trail would then be framed as questions of the LRs of the ED which will then approach a competent court for formal issuance,’ they said.