ED and CBI had also issued Letters Rogatory (judicial requests) to multiple countries to gather more leads and evidences in this case.Michel is one of the three middlemen being probed in the case, apart from Guido Haschke and Carlo Gerosa, by the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI and both the agencies have also notified an Interpol Red Corner Notice (RCN) or the global arrest warrant against him after court issued a non-bailable warrant against him.It had earlier submitted that Khaitan was on the board of Chandigarh-based company Aeromatrix which was allegedly a front firm for the financial dealings in the chopper deal.The agency has also detected that the media firm floated by Michel in Delhi, along with two Indians, was nothing but a "shell company" to "launder the proceeds of crime..ED had registered a PMLA case in this regard in 2014 and named 21 people including Tyagi in its money laundering FIR.The Milan court order also mentions the name of former IAF chief S P Tyagi at several points.

ED has detected that media firm floated by Michel in Delhi was a ‘shell company’ to ‘launder the proceeds of crime.It is understood that filing a charge sheet against Michel was necessary as ED has sought his extradition from the UK and hence such a court complaint against an accused is necessary in order to execute the treaty between the two countries.On January 1, 2014, India scrapped the contract with Finmeccanica's British subsidiary AgustaWestland for supplying 12 AW-101 VVIP choppers to the IAF over alleged breach of contractual obligations and APET sheets factory charges of paying kickbacks to the tune of Rs 423 crore by it for securing the deal.The probe in the deal had been in news recently after a a Milan (Italy) based court sentenced Italian defence and aerospace major Finmeccanica's former chief Giuseppe Orsi and Spagnolini on corruption charges in the sale of these helicopters to India."At least two other associates of Michel in Delhi and the media firm, whose assets were attached by ED last year, have been named in the charge sheet along with the statements made by various people connected to him including his driver Narayan Bahadur.It had also arrested Delhi-based businessman Gautam Khaitan in the case and he is out on bail at present.The over 1,300 page prosecution complaint (ED's equivalent for charge sheet) has been placed before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court here early this week and it has said that agency's investigation into the case has found that Michel received Euro 30 million (about Rs 225 crore) from Ms Agusta Westland which was nothing but "kickbacks" paid by the firm to execute the 12 helicopter deal in favour of the firm in "guise of" of genuine transactions for performing multiple work contracts in the country.

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