In a breaking exposure, media exposed Christian James Michel, 57-year-old British arms dealer who allegedly helped AgustaWestland to bag the February 2010 deal for 12 AW101 choppers, mainly meant for VVIP use. An Enforcement Directorate chargesheet included the name of Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel and one "Mrs Gandhi" linked to the deal.

"Christian Michel James has further disclosed various abbreviations used in the budget sheet, which contains the details of the payments made to Air Force officials, bureaucrats and political persons.

Giving a dramatic twist in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland chopper deal case, the Enforcement Directorate on Saturday brought in the name of 'Mrs Gandhi' and 'big man R', an apparent reference to Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, in a special court when it got a seven-day extension of custody of British national Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the deal.

A Delhi court on Saturday allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to quiz British national Christian Michel, the middleman accused in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case, for seven days.

Alleged Augusta middleman Christian Michel, extradited from Dubai on December 4, has not uttered a single word in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody.

A Delhi court on Saturday extended by another four days the CBI custody of British national Christian Michel, the middleman accused in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal.

Christian Michel James, a British national and a middleman, on Tuesday was extradited to India, a development that comes as a boost to Indian agencies investigating the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case.