Arms dealer Abhishek, Romanian wife freed
New Delhi, April 26: Arms dealer Abhishek Verma, his wife and others were discharged by special court on Wednesday in a CBI case involving alleged payments to some officials to influence the defence ministry to keep a German firm out of the government’s blacklist.
Special CBI judge Anju Bajaj Chandna also discharged Mr Verma and his Romanian wife Anca Verma in a money laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate in the matter.
The CBI had filed its chargesheet against Mr Verma, his wife, Rheinmetall Air Defence and its top official Gerhard Hoy.
The court discharged them saying that there was not enough evidence to put them on trial in the two cases.
According to the CBI, RAD had transferred $5,30,000 to a New York bank account belonging to Ganton Ltd, a US-based company owned by Mr Verma. He had promised to stall the blacklisting process in exchange for money, according to the police chargesheet.
The agency had told the court that it had traced banking transactions from Europe to the US, linking Mr Verma and his associates with the German arms conglomerate. The ED had filed a separate case of money laundering against the couple on the basis of the CBI complaint.