”Rafale Papers”: @mediapart reveals explosive documents that shed new light on the € 7.8 billion France-India Rafale jets deal. Thread on the revelations of this third and final episode of our investigative series. #RafalePapers (1/6)
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@mediapart obtained confidential documents from the Enforcement Directorate’s AgustaWestland “choppergate” case file, revealing how the middleman Suhen Gupta acted as an agent for Dassault in the Rafale deal. (2/6)
#RafalePapers documents show that Dassault and its Rafale partner Thales paid during more than ten years millions d’euros of secret commissions, some of them covered by questionable and inflated software contracts, to offshore shell companies controled by agent Sushen Gupta (3/6)
In a 2012 message which was to all appearances prepared for Dassault, Gupta delivered an explicit warning: “I owe people money and commitments. […] People sitting in office asking for money. […] Those people will, if we don’t pay, put us in jail” (4/6) #RafalePapers
Sushen Gupta has been useful to the French side: In 2015, during the battle about the price of the Rafale, Dassault’s agent obtained confidential documents from the Indian Ministry of Defense about the position and pricing calculations of the Indian Negociating Team (INT). (5/6)
#RafalePapers documents show that Dassault fought to remove the anti-corruption clauses in the contracts annexed to the inter-governmental agreement for the Rafale, which was signed by French minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and negociated under his authority. (6/6)
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