Barak Probe: CBI Seeks Israel's Co-operation

Barak Probe: CBI Seeks Israel's Co-operation 18 Jan 2009, 1203 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Three years after initiating probe into the alleged irregularities during purchase of Barak missiles in a Rs 1,150-crore deal, the CBI has approached the Israel government for its help in recording statements of some people besides details of some bank transactions in that country. A Letters Rogatory was issued from a designated court here for Israeli government to seek its assistance in investigations into the case, official sources said. The CBI had moved the court for issuing the Letters Rogatory as the agency alleged that part of offence was committed in Israel as the "commission was paid by the seller in violation of the contract entered with the Government". The agency said documents were to be collected from Israel and certain statements were to be recorded in order to trace the chain of money, they said. The CBI had registered a case in this connection and named then Defence Minister George Fernandes, former naval chief Sushil Kumar, president of now defunct Samata Party Jaya Jaitley, arms dealer Suresh Nanda and others in October 2006. It had questioned Fernandes, Admiral (retd) Kumar, Jaya Jaitley, Nanda and former UPSC Chairman Subir Datta as part of the probe. CBI claimed in its FIR that the contract price for purchasing seven Barak missile was about USD 17 million which was higher than the price offered by Israel in early 1996.

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