BAD & UGLY

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defence wheeler-dealers

 

BAD & UGLY

They have what it takes to make the graphs in the Indian arms trade go up or down. This is a peep into the world of the Ravi Rishis, Win Chadhas, Nandas, Chandraswamis, Choudhries and Saxenas who officially don’t exist or do anything but who still determine the way the water will flow or the dollars roll in every arms deal that the country enters into. These middlemen and agents are the people who drive India’s arms deals. Here’s how:

Abhishek Verma & Anca Neascu

The uncrowned King and Queen!

Abhishek Verma, and his Romanian wife, Anca Neascu, are a jodi (couple) that is made for each other. He is a typical big, bad guy, a conman accused of the gravest crimes from leaking India’s defence secrets – he was the prime accused in the 2006 Navy war room leak case to manipulating the defence and trade policy, money laundering, forgery and tax evasion, to hobnobbing with notorious arms and drug dealers. She is a divorcee and mother of a five-year-old girl, who married Abhishek in New Delhi just four days before his arrest, and has since stood by him through the thick and thin...Read More