AgustaWestland middleman Sushen Mohan Gupta has not been forthcoming about the identity of RG mentioned in his diaries. The Enforcement Directorate has asked for further custodial remand of Gupta in this regard.
New Delhi: AgustaWestland middleman Sushen Mohan Gupta is not forthcoming on the identity of the ‘RG’ mentioned in his diaries at several places and from whom he received over Rs 50 crore between 2004 and 2016.
MyNation has accessed the arguments put forward by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) while asking for further custodial remand of Gupta on April 3.
According to the documents, ED told the special CBI court that while the diary entries and details of money transactions in his pen drives were in the form of “codes and abbreviations”, Gupta was “misguiding the investigation by deliberately giving wrong explanation of abbreviations”. The ED mentioned that the abbreviation ‘RG’ “finds mention in many pages as well as in the pen drive data.”
“More than Rs 50 crore shown to have been received from ‘RG’ between 2004 and 2016,” ED said.
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That Gupta was “misleading” came to light when ED found discrepancies in his statement. While Gupta identified ‘RG’ with Rajat Gupta, who had admitted to having cash transactions with Sushen Mohan Gupta from 2007 onwards, during the recording of Rajat Gupta’s statement he has said, “on being shown the statement of Sushen, Rajat Gupta replied ‘my name is Rajat Gupta and I cannot comment why Sushen is trying to name me as RG. I have no concern with the abbreviation ‘RG’ and he can only explain.”
The ED said that as Sushen was not revealing the true identity of this ‘RG’ they needed more time to interrogate him.
The agency also told the court that they had confronted Sushen with several people who were linked to the case. In all, 11 persons have been made to face Sushen and they are: Vinoo Kashyap; Shahnawaz Khan; Jagir Dass Saini; Arjun Kohli; RP Kashyap; Balraj Singh Thakkar; Sanjit Bakshi; Pramod Kumar Aggarwal; Rajiv Saxena and Rajat Gupta.
Sushen had also agreed during the interrogation, when confronted with Rajiv Saxena, another middleman who turned approver and on whose information Sushen was arrested, as also the person who gave ED the two diaries and the pen drive belonging to Sushen in which ‘RG’ has been mentioned — Saxena said that he received instructions for transferring money through two email accounts — sushen4000@gmail.com and sushant4000@gmail.com — “which was not objected to by Sushen Mohan Gupta”.
Also, the ED needed time to ascertain the identities of two hawala operators mentioned in the pen drive data, named ‘Sardar and ram/els’.
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