Deal took off after Italian president Ciampi's visit

2005 trip: Middleman was part of official team, used visit to fix meeting between then IAF Chief Tyagi and Finmeccanica officials. The 2005 visit of then Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi served as a watershed for the VVIP chopper deal, because while he met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi...

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