India, July 3 -- Like the Bofors scam, the AgustaWestland chopper deal too has telltale signs of a Congress connection. According to the Italian newspaper 'Lettera 43', main commission agent Christian Michel's late father was "close to the Congress party", and the other middleman, Guido Ralph Haschke, was a Director of Emaar-MGF, a real estate company owned by relatives of Kanishka Singh, who is associated with a Congress high-up.

Michel was also the agent of Dassault, which has emerged as the lowest bidder for the Indian Air Force's 10 billion dollar deal for Rafale fighter jets, supposed to be the world's biggest tender.

According to the Italian newspaper report on November 20, 2012, the "mysterious" British citizen Michel, described ...