Ex-IAF chief quizzed again

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 3

Former IAF chief SP Tyagi was grilled by the CBI for the second day today in connection with the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland chopper deal.

Tyagi arrived at the CBI headquarters at 11 am. After Tyagi admitted that he met an official of VVIP chopper manufacturing company Finmeccanica in India, the CBI called Gautam Khetan, former legal adviser to a Chandigarh-based IT firm, for questioning.

Tyagi has accepted that he met officials of the Finmeccanica, including its chief operating officer George Zapa, in India in 2005. He also admitted to running four companies (Vanshi, Anuras, Shavan and Meghanshu) in Noida. The companies are registered in the name of Tyagi and his wife, sources say.

(With PTI inputs)