New Delhi, July 3: The French government has opened an investigation into the controversial Rafale deal with India. According to a report by a French website, a judge will슬롯 머신 사이트 추천lead a judicial probe into the Rafale deal슬롯 머신 사이트 추천on "corruption" suspicions. The "highly sensitive probe" was formally opened on June 14 following a decision by the Parquet National Financier(PNF), which tracks down serious economic and financial crime.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천What is Rafale Deal? All You Need To Know About French Fighter Jets Which Has Pitted Congress, BJP At Loggerheads.

India had purchased 36 Rafale jets from France in government to government deal in September 2016. Since then, the deal has been슬롯 머신 사이트 추천mired in corruption allegations. A probe has been ordered after published a series of investigative reports in April this year, exposing role of an alleged middleman in the Rafale deal. It also accused the PNF and슬롯 머신 사이트 추천the French Anti-corruption Agency of "burying" suspicions.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Rafale Deal Row: India Cheated to Tune of Rs 21,000 Crore, Alleges Congress.

After these reports,슬롯 머신 사이트 추천France's Sherpa NGO, which specialises in financial crime, lodged a formal complaint alleging슬롯 머신 사이트 추천corruption, influence peddling, money laundering, favouritism and undue tax waivers. Notably, the PNF had turned down Sherpa's request for a probe in the Rafale deal in 2018. In its complaint, the NGO also slammed the Dassault Aviation for choosing슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Reliance Group, which has no experience in aeronautics, as its India partner.

The Congress party and Rahul Gandhi have been attacking the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government over the Rafale deal. The grand old party has accused PM Modi슬롯 머신 사이트 추천of accepting in the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), chaired by him, the higher 'benchmark price' of Euro 8.2 billion instead of Euro 5.2 billion for the 36 aircraft, despite objections by the Defence Acquisition Council and the then defence minister Manohar Parrikar not approving it.

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