The Rafale deal is making the headlines again after French blog Portail Aviation shared images of two trade union documents of Dassault Aviation.
These documents are minutes of a meeting held on May 11 2017, in which, it is said that Loik Segalenn, a top Dassault official, had said that a contract with Anil Ambani’s company was “obligatory” for Dassault if it wanted to obtain the Rafale deal.
The document reads, “A complete presentation of the Make in India creation of the firm Dassault Reliance Aerospace Nagpur has been done. According to Mr Segalenn, it was imperative and obligatory for Dassault-Aviation to accept this counterpart in order to obtain the Rafale India export contract (translated),” reported TimesNowNews.com.
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According to Portail Aviation blog published on Sunday, the document is the “union summary of a meeting (CEC, mandatory under French law), presenting the effects of the “offsets” imposed on the defence contract (50% of counterparties) and the “Make in India” policy.”
The Modi government and Dassault Aviation have said that Dassault was free to choose it’s offset partner. However, a series of documents prove otherwise.
Earlier this month, French journal MediaPart first accessed an internal document of Dassault Aviation which stated that picking Anil Ambani’s Reliance was “mandatory and imperative” for Dassault to get the Rafale Deal.