Watch | As France Probes Rafale Deal, India May Be Pressed to Provide Documents: Mediapart Reporter
In an important development, a French judge has been tasked with investigating the controversial 2016 multi-billion-dollar sale of Rafale fighter jets to India on "corruption" suspicions. French national financial prosecutors' office or PNF had initially refused to investigate the sale – a 7.8-billion-euro ($9.3-billion) deal for 36 planes between the Government of India and French aircraft manufacturer Dassault that has long been mired in corruption allegations. Mitali Mukherjee spoke with Yann Philippin of Mediapart, an independent French online investigative journal that has been unearthing disturbing details on the Rafale deal and pushing for an investigation into the agreement. In this interview, Philippin details the course investigations will take and questionable details emerging of how a deal between Dassault and the Anil Ambani group was signed even before any official announcement.
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