Rajiv Gandhi Middleman To Main Player In Corruption.

I have posted on the inclination, subsequent acquiescence and participation of  Rajiv Gandhi in Corrupt Deals in 2011.

How Rajiv Gandhi was involved in the payoffs in the Bofors deal How he was paid,how the Swiss Bank confirmed his account details.

Also a chilling story as to how a conspiracy was hatched to kill Rajiv Gandhi and how the French Intelligence tracked LTTE‘s movements to this effect.

Now comes wikileaks story that Rajiv Gandhi, a’ ‘Transport Pilot’ was considered to be a middleman for his ‘Family Contacts’.

This information traces the origin and emergence of Rajiv Gandhi  in the Art of Corruption.

Well, Congress will deny this story and the show will go on.

BJP will protest initially and when Congress threatens to expose Pramod Mahajan’s  Fund Collection , the freeing of terrorists by the BJP Government and the affairs of Ranjan Bhattacharjee, BJP will zipper its mouth.

Story:

According to latest WikiLeaksrevelations, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhimay have worked as a middleman for Swedish company Saab-Scania, which had tried to sell its Viggen fighter aircraft to India in the 1970s.

However, Saab-Scania eventually could not sealthe deal, which went to British SEPECAT Jaguar. According to a report published in the Hindu, Rajiv was considered to be a valuable negotiator because of his family connections, states the paper, citing the Kissinger Cables, the latest bunch of classified cables of the US administration released by WikiLeaks.

According to the report, Rajiv Gandhi became the negotiator for the Swedish company Saab-Scania, when it was trying to sell its Viggen fighter aircraft to India in the 1970s, much before he became the prime minister.

The first cable said that Air Marshal OP Mehra’s son-in-law was the chief negotiator for the competing Mirage, but it does not give his name. “Our colleague describes Ranjiv Gandhi [sic] in flattering terms, and contends his technical expertise is of a high level. This may or may not be. Offhand, we would have thought a transport pilot [is] not the best expert to rely upon in evaluating a fighter plane, but then we are speaking of a transport pilot who has another and perhaps more relevant qualification,” the cable read, said the report.

WikiLeaks sent shockwaves around the diplomatic world in 2010 when it released a set of more than 250,000 leaked US cables.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rajiv-Gandhi-worked-as-middleman-in-aircraft-deal-WikiLeaks/articleshow/19438402.cms?

Related:

http://ramanisblog.in/2011/12/27/swiss-bank-reveal-indian-names-signed-documents-with-details/

http://ramanisblog.in/2011/02/22/rajiv-2-5-billionsswiss-magazine-confirms/