![]() ![]() THE CBI HAS engaged a lawyer in Italy to represent India’s case with the Italian govt and the local courts to find out the role of Indians in the alleged kickbacks His name cropped up in the coal scam Younger brother Satish (right) is an equal partner of Partap K Agarwal in IDS Infotech, named by Italian investigators as a vehicle for channeling bribes to India to secure the chopper deal ![]() Santosh Bagrodia (left) was MoS for coal between April 2008 and May 2009. Hasckhe and Gerosa have been named by Italian prosecutors as middlemen in the Rs3,760-crore AgustaWestland deal.ĬONG LEADER’S FAMILY LINKS TO INDIAN FIRM CUPRUM BAGRODIA WEBSITE SOFTWARESatish told HT that IDS Infotech provided business and software solutions to AgustaWestland till 2009, when it “sold” this business to Aeromatrix, another Chandigarhbased firm.Īnd along with the business went Praveen Bakshi, an executive vice-president at IDS Infotech till 2009 and now CEO of Aeromatrix, in which two Italians, Guido Ralph Hasckhe and Carlo Gerosa, were directors. Santosh was coal minister between April 2008 and May 2009. In the coal block allocation scam, allegations were leveled against Santosh over a Rs600-crore mining contract awarded by a unit of state-owned Coal India Limited during his tenure in the coal ministry to Cuprum Bagrodia, a company of another of his brothers, Vinod. This is not the first time, though, that his brothers’ business ventures have landed Santosh in controversy. “At the time of joining politics in 1986, on my suggestion, we four brothers separated our respective businesses.” “I have nothing to do with the business ventures of my brother,” said Santosh Bagrodia when contacted by HT. ![]() Satish and Manish were appointed directors in 1989 and Ashish in 2005. NEW DELHI: Former Union minister of state for coal and Congress leader Santosh Bagrodia’s younger brother Satish Bagrodia is a director in Chandigarh-based IDS Infotech Limited, which Italian investigators allege was a key vehicle in routing the AgustaWestland deal bribe money to India in the garb of fake software and engineering contracts.Īccording to documents accessed by Hindustan Times, Partap Krishan Agarwal is managing director of IDS Infotech and Satish Bagrodia, his two sons Ashish and Manish, and Yog Prakash Agarwal and Narinder Agarwal are the other directors. Coal scam-tainted Bagrodia’s brother is director of IDS Infotech ![]()
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