![]() ![]() suspected of giving bribes worth INR 3,000,000 to Ghosh. Charged in connection with the Ordnance Factories case. Mohinder Singh Sahni (or Sawhney) - head of the Mokul Group of companies suspected agent for Rheinmetall Air Defense and Corporation Zashchita, as well as the South African firm Denel on a 2005 arms deal. Ramesh Nambiar – general manager at Air India suspected of money-laundering and acting as a middleman. ![]() ![]() Charged in connection with the Ordnance Factories case.Īshish Bose – Ghosh’s brother-in-law suspected middleman and money-launderer. Pradeep Rana - businessman suspected agent for IMI and associate of the arms broker Sudhir Choudhrie. Charged with corruption and for possessing assets disproportionate with known sources of income. ![]() Sudipta (or Sudipto) Ghosh – former director-general of the Indian Ordnance Factories suspected of taking bribes in exchange for contracts. It remains unknown, however, whether the Central Bureau of Investigation has tied Ghosh’s suspiciously large bank savings to payments from Rana and his employers. Subsequent investigations found that Ghosh had approved a 20% down-payment to IMI without the proper approval, and that IMI had employed a local agent, Pradeep Rana, to help secure the deal. The most prominent procurement program set back by the corrupt activities was a contract awarded in March 2009 to IMI to build a factory for producing artillery charges, worth INR 11.75 billion or approximately USD 229 million (at March 2009 average exchange rates). Several Indian vendors were also implicated in the case and blacklisted. A decade later, the case has yet to proceed to trial nonetheless, as a direct consequence of the investigation the Ministry of Defence blacklisted four foreign arms vendors: Israel Military Industries (IMI), ST Kinetics (a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Engineering), Rheinmetall Air Defence (RAD), and Corporation Zashchita (“Corporation Defense”) of Russia. In May 2009, the recently retired director-general of the Ordnance Factories, Sudipta (or Sudipto) Ghosh, was arrested on suspicions of receiving bribes in connection with several procurement programs. The Ordnance Factories are India's network of 41 government-managed military-sector manufactories, nearly half of which predate the country’s independence in 1947. ![]()
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