UK courtroom clears Sanjay Bhandari’s extradition
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By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: In a transfer that might pave the best way for extradition of Sanjay Bhandari, a UK-based Indian arms seller accused of tax evasion and kickbacks in a weapons deal, a London courtroom on Monday dominated that he might be despatched to India to face the cost.
District Judge Michael Snow, who heard the case at Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier this yr, concluded that nothing barred his extradition to India and forwarded the case to Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who’s authorised to signal on the extradition order.
Bhandari, who’s prone to problem the order, is accused of defrauding Indian earnings tax authorities between July 1, 2015 and February 7, 2017, by intentionally omitting international property and earnings. In January 2022, there have been reviews that Bhandari’s Dubai-based Offset India Solutions was discovered to be linked to a € 2.4 billion IAF Mirage fighter jet upgradation deal in 2011 and one other Rs 3,600 crore settlement for buying helicopters from UK’s AgustaWestland in 2009. Bhandar can also be accused of cash laundering.
NEW DELHI: In a transfer that might pave the best way for extradition of Sanjay Bhandari, a UK-based Indian arms seller accused of tax evasion and kickbacks in a weapons deal, a London courtroom on Monday dominated that he might be despatched to India to face the cost.
District Judge Michael Snow, who heard the case at Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier this yr, concluded that nothing barred his extradition to India and forwarded the case to Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who’s authorised to signal on the extradition order.
Bhandari, who’s prone to problem the order, is accused of defrauding Indian earnings tax authorities between July 1, 2015 and February 7, 2017, by intentionally omitting international property and earnings. In January 2022, there have been reviews that Bhandari’s Dubai-based Offset India Solutions was discovered to be linked to a € 2.4 billion IAF Mirage fighter jet upgradation deal in 2011 and one other Rs 3,600 crore settlement for buying helicopters from UK’s AgustaWestland in 2009. Bhandar can also be accused of cash laundering.
