Here is the card that could make the glowing match between the Indian government and ' Italy . On the one hand the destiny of our marines, Massimiliano La Torre and Salvatore Girone . On the other hand, according to a document in the file of the Prosecutor of Busto Arsizio , there are politicians in India who took millions in bribes from Finmeccanica for the job helicopters Agusta in 2010. The letter that could complicate relations between the two countries publish the next and was found in the villa on Lake Lugano in the Italian consultant resident in Switzerland, Guido Ralph Haschke , accused of corruption along with the former president of Finmeccanica Giusppe Bears and other consultants and managers, on charges of having paid € 30 million in bribes to public officials to promote Indian Agusta Westland in the race for the job of AW101 helicopters. When in April 2012 entered into his house, investigators Italian and Swiss Haschke feigned an illness and collapsed on his bed. Underneath was a suitcase full of documents that the consultant Piedmontese origin had left there, convinced that his Swiss citizenship was a shield against the intrusiveness of the police NOE led by Sergio De Caprio , aka Last, and pm Neapolitan Vincenzo Piscitelli and Henry John Woodcock .
Among the papers of the case there was a letter that, after the transition to competence survey from Naples in Busto Arsizio, the prosecutor Eugenio Fusco has studied and learned to make better coordinate it with a handwritten note from the same Haschke, he said dictation of his coindagato Christian Mitchell , with a list of the abbreviations of the names or roles of the recipients of bribes in India. Thursday, January 9th was going to Haschke-examination by the defense and the term pm Fusco has dropped three cards: the letter, handwritten note and a photo of Sonia Gandhi with his main collaborator Ahmed Patel . If the trio of Fusco, reproduced in the montage, it was aces or two of spades will tell only the Court at the end of the trial.
The first paper fell from pm January 9, is in English and reads: "March 15, 2008. For the attention of Mr. Peter Hulett (sales manager of AgustaWestland in India Ed.) Dear Peter, because Mrs. Gandhi is the driving force behind the VIP (ie the elicoitteri prepared to transport the Indian authorities that they had to be purchased by the government paying to Agusta 556 million Ed), she will no longer fly with the MI-8 (the old Russian helicopter fleet governmental Sonia Gandhi used and still use a few Indian personalities, Ed.) Mrs. Gandhi and his close associates are the people to whom the ' High Commissioner (Ambassador of Great Britain: Agusta Westland is also British, En) should aim. " After this reference to Sonia Gandhi as the "driving force" followed by the list of public figures to put in the viewfinder diplomat, at the request of Agusta.
The letter would not be embarrassing if it were not for the petitioner: Mitchell has been involved, according to the prosecutor, the payment of bribes and is now quiet in Dubai . The list is impressive: 1) Manmonah Singh (Prime Minister of India, En), 2) Ahmed Patel (political secretary of Sonia Gandhi Ed), 3) Pranab Mukherjee (President of India in 2012, in 2008 foreign minister Ed) 4) M. Veerappa Moily (Minister of Energy, En) 5) Oscar Fernandes (Minister of Transport, En), 6) MK Narayanan (Governor of Bengal, Ed); 7) Vinay Singh (Chief of the Indian Railways, Ed.) The list of personalities to suggest ambassador ends with an abrupt "Christian greetings." The Fusco pm, after having shown the letter with the name of Sonia Gandhi and Ahmed Patel, his collaborator narrow, January 9, he dropped the second card: the list of bribes, already identified in a previous hearing last December but not connected to the second document in that forum (AP was thought to be Popular Alliance , the name of the party).
The list, written in ink by Haschke, dictation Mitchell according to the story of the Swiss mediator , is divided into four parts, each with a code corresponding to a category of corrupt officials. AF stands for Air Force , 6 million; BUR , ie bureaucrats who should be 8.4 million, then the POL , ie politicians, to which must be 6 million of which € 3 million to a mysterious AP . Fusco puts under the noses of the two documents Haschke, "Dr. Haschke, but according to her, the AP of three million referenced in the memo Mitchell manuscript is Ahmed Patel's letter ? ". Haschke replies: "I too would come to his own conclusions, but to me Mitchell did not say and I do not know." The prosecutor shows one of several photos of Patel next to Sonia Gandhi. And who is required to Haschke Patel. The Swiss-Italian insists: "I only know Sonia Gandhi." The legal representatives of the Government of India are present in the audience jumped on the chair.
On January 10, the Indian newspapers there are two news. The first, published for example by ' Indian Express that follows best Italian media the process of Bust, was the record of the interrogation of Fusco on stacks of 3 million, of AP, the collaborator of Sonia Gandhi and the letter he quoted. On the same day appears on the Indian newspapers reported that the families of our cold riflemen imprisoned in India for two years: "The decision whether or not to apply the death penalty will be assessed by the Indian government within two or three days," was filter that day the Minister of India, Sushil Shinde Kamar . Italian newspapers such as Free , spoke of "sudden change of scenery: only yesterday, Thursday, January 9, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Salman Khurshid , had ruled out once again the application of capital punishment to the two Italian soldiers accused of murder of two fishermen. "
The feeling is clear that the two criminal cases , one against the marines in India and one from which could emerge representatives (currently unknown) of Indian politics who would take bribes , events are crossed. The strangeness of the two stories, if it concerns together, they seem to make more sense. The Indian government has frozen the order that would be won according to the prosecutor Fusco thanks to bribes by Agusta but it does filter out the idea of arbitration , known to be the prelude to a soft close. Also in the trial of the marines will remain in a legal limbo. The prosecution has not yet formulated a count of indictment and a matter now closed, such as the death penalty, has been reopened to surprise on January 10, after the interrogation of Fusco Haschke to Ahmed Patel, and yesterday was again throw it in a drawer by the Indian government. In spring there are elections in India, Sonia Gandhi's party could be in trouble because of the story of the helicopters . And this is not good news for the marines.
