India To Buy Barak-I Missiles

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India To Buy Barak-I Missiles After Bribery Investigation Crumbles
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The Indian Navy is likely to move forward with the procurement of an additional 262 Barak-I missiles worth $641 million from Israeli Aerospace Industries, after India’s leading investigation agency closed its investigation into allegations of bribery in the Barak missile case.

The Barak-I missiles deemed a “critical operational requirement” by successive navy chiefs is likely to be cleared by the Defense Acquisitions Council led by defense minister AK Antony on December 23.

The CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) on Tuesday closed the case against the accused; including former defence minister George Fernandes, former Navy chief Admiral Sushil Kumar and others admitting that it had no evidence of bribery.



The allegations first surfaced in 2001 when Tehelka, a New Delhi-based publication, released tapes showing several key players discussing bribes paid to close several defense deals, including the Barak missile procurement deal.

In its First Information Report, the CBI in 2006 alleged that “large payments were remitted from the firm MTU Aero Engines, a supplier to IAI, into the bank accounts of Dynatron Services, a company managed by Suresh Nanda (among the accused) and his family members.”

However, in its closure report filed on Monday, the CBI said that after six years it did not find any substantial evidence to prove that bribes were paid in lieu of the contract.


India To Buy Barak-I Missiles After Bribery Investigation Crumbles

 

[GURU DUTT]

so the story is patriotik NDA govt buys a missile system from israel but the arms procourment lobby dosnet gets it cut so they with help of blackmailer in chief (tejpal & co) use the old trick and in the ned india stops the purchase and IAI gets blacklisted for no offence ...but when after 10 years congress beuro of investigation could not get any proof (as usual) they re open the old tender ... so now it means they will send a new tender which will give them one more change to make some "oopri kamai"

 

[KRAIT]

Enough of these delays. Pay the cutbacks from Swiss banks, just get the Indian defence at top level.

 

[sudhir007]

If our mod weak up and get matri SR JV on time. Our warship get better and jv product instead of buying.

 

[janon]

so the story is patriotik NDA govt buys a missile system from israel but the arms procourment lobby dosnet gets it cut so they with help of blackmailer in chief (tejpal & co) use the old trick and in the ned india stops the purchase and IAI gets blacklisted for no offence ...but when after 10 years congress beuro of investigation could not get any proof (as usual) they re open the old tender ... so now it means they will send a new tender which will give them one more change to make some "oopri kamai"

That would have been a fine theory, except for the inconvenient fact that the ruling party's (BJP) president was caught accepting bribes on camera, and had to resign.

The fact that a lot of money changed hands for a lot of defence deals in that period is not a secret. The only question is which particular deals, which individuals, how much prosecutable evidence there is against which individuals, and so on.

The case against the BJP president was iron clad, which is why he was sentenced to four years in jail. So all this black and white portrayal of "patriotic NDA" v/s evil arms lobby, is rather simplistic, and not in accordance with real world facts.