The CBI, which is probing alleged receipt of kickbacks in the Rs. 3,600-crore VVIP AgustaWestland deal, may soon send reminders to three countries to expedite their responses to its formal requests — Letters Rogatories (LRs) — seeking details on alleged trans-national money trail detected by it.<br /><br />The agency had last year sent LRs to Italy, Mauritius and Tunisia to acquire details on certain accused firms and individuals but is yet to get a response. "The reply from the three countries will be the key to establishing the roles of the accused persons and firms," said a CBI source.<br /><br />The LRs had sought information pertaining to alleged financial transactions and ownership details of an Italy-based accused firm, its UK-based subsidiary firm and a firm each operating out of Mauritius and Tunisia. The CBI suspects that two Indian firms were also allegedly involved in the trans-national transactions masked as payments for engineering contracts.<br /><br />The CBI had frozen bank accounts of eight Indians named as accused in the case as well as of two Indian firms named in its FIR.<br /><br />Further, the agency is also set to send fresh LRs to five more countries to track the money trail-- Singapore, British Virgin Islands, the UK, Switzerland and the UAE.<br /><br /><br /><br />For More information on this news visit : http://www.newsx.com/<br />Connect with us on Social platform at : http://www.facebook.com/newsxonline<br />Subscribe to our YouTube Channel : http://www.youtube.com/newsxlive
