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London, Oct 16: Claiming that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been "wrongly advised" on middlemen in arms deals, India`s former Naval Chief Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat has said their presence is a dangerous trend.
"With all due respect to the Prime Minister, I would like to clearly say he has been wrongly advised on the issue. It is very unfortunate that an honest man leading the country should have formed such an opinion as presence of middlemen (in arms deals) is a very dangerous trend," Admiral Bhagwat told a BBC Hindi programme.
"We have been victims of so many acts of subversions of military and civilian intelligence due to these middlemen and this should be shelved straightaway," he said.
The Prime Minister recently suggested that presence of agents in defence deals was unavoidable but their role could be regulated.
"In my view, middlemen should never be allowed in defence procurement deals as these elements carry out acts of subversion against the military establishment and intelligence agencies. They work as intelligence stooges of foreign agencies and hike the price of equipments by at least fifteen per cent," Bhagwat said.
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