It has now emerged that Christian Michel, the middleman in AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam, also had access to investigative agencies like the Enforcement Directorate (ED)
that Supreme Court has directed Gujarat High Court to initiate a probe against Patel, taking former Congress leader Balwantsinh Rajput's election plea as grounds.
KRBL, a Basmati Rice Exporting company is also being probed as Gautam Khaitan, a lawyer who is a co-accused in the case, was the joint director of the company from 2007 to 2013.
Christian Michel with another middleman Guido Haschke had worked on a plan to lobby for Eurofighter against Rafale in order to win the deal in its favour.