Enforcement Directorate notices to firms linked to arms dealer

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has issued notices to firms linked to arms dealer Sudhir Choudhrie in connection with its foreign exchange violations probe in a 16-year-old case emerging out of alleged payment of kickbacks for providing field guns to the army and certain other deals.

The agency has sought documents and financial statements of the firms linked to Choudhrie as part of its investigation in the case registered under the FEMA.

One of the notices relates to a case in which a Delhi Court in 2011 had directed the agency to probe the “receipt of commission” to Choudhrie and others. The court had then accepted the closure report filed by CBI in this case that was registered following a sting operation that had alleged upgrade of the army’s 130 mm field guns involved payment of $1,56,940 in kickbacks.