How Leonardo will operate in India and the United Arab Emirates

The next moves by Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica) in India and the United Arab Emirates. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano

The embargo decreed by the Indian government against Italy has also been lifted and this would allow Leonardo to sign a very rich contract to supply torpedoes to Indian Scorpène-class submarines.

The key figures of this agreement are on the one hand institutional and on the other informal but absolutely decisive. The key figures on the institutional level were of course the Italian ambassador to India Vincenzo de Luca and the Indian foreign minister Harsh Vardhan Shringla.

On the other hand, the non-institutional figures who have played a decisive role behind the scenes – and certainly not from today – are on the one hand the Gautam Adani group and on the other Sudhir Choudhrie.

If we then ask ourselves the reasons for this embargo, these can only be traced to the investigations by the Central Bureau of Investigation against the former Finmeccanica.

But Italy is also moving on the front of close collaboration with the UAE as evidenced by the partnership of Elettronica but also of AFB System of Francesco Mascarino and Leonardo with International Golden Group .

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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/come-manovra-leonardo-in-india-e-negli-emirati-arabi-uniti/ on Tue, 23 Nov 2021 10:21:06 +0000.