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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Mr Clean brake on Barak

Defence minister A.K. Antony has put deals with Israel for the Barak missile on hold after the CBI arrested suspected agents Suresh and Sanjeev Nanda on a bribery charge.

The Nandas are already being investigated for accepting illegal commissions on a missile deal struck during the NDA regime when George Fernandes was defence minister.

Antony’s orders to go slow on more deals with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) comes in the month the ministry was lining up a contract estimated at more than $300 million for an air force variant of the anti-missile missile.

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