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AgustaWestland Chopper middleman Christian Michel remanded to ED custody

| @indiablooms | Dec 22, 2018, at 03:46 pm

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IBNS) : Christian Michel, the alleged middleman arrested in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case, was on Saturday taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate after he was produced before a Delhi court, media reports said.

Special Judge Arvind Kumar first allowed the Enforcement Directorate to interrogate the British national inside the courtroom for 15 minutes after the agency sought his custodial interrogation.

The court had reserved the order on Michel's bail plea on December 19 and had sent him to judicial custody till December 28.

Michel is among the three alleged middlemen being probed in the case by the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI. The others are Guido Haschke and Carlo Gerosa.

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