MGF's Shravan Gupta, VVIP chopper scam co-accused, gets 10-year jail in Abu Dhabi

Shravan Gupta, chairman of Delhi-based real estate developer MGF Group and a co-accused in the ₹3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scandal, has been convicted and sentenced to ten years of prison by an Abu Dhabi court for alleged fraud and embezzlement.

Gupta has intimated this to a Delhi court, urging it to set aside a criminal case against him by the Delhi Police on a complaint by his former joint venture partner Emaar India for alleged fraud, deception and siphoning of funds.

He argued that an Abu Dhabi federal court on February 27, 2024 sentenced him and others in relation to the "same facts and allegations," and that he "cannot be prosecuted again".


Gupta alleged that Emaar "concealed and suppressed" the Abu Dhabi sentence from the Delhi court.

Taking stock, a local court on May 5 issued notice to the Delhi Police and the investigating officer of the case, seeking their response to Gupta's application.

ET saw a copy of the application.

It may be noted that both the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) have sought extradition of Gupta in connection with the 2013 VVIP helicopter bribery scandal. His extradition is pending.

Delhi Police had booked Gupta and 10 others in September 2022 on Emaar's complaint that accused them of "front running" and creating shell companies to dupe Emaar.

A local magistrate in November 2024 took cognisance of the charge sheet and summoned Gupta and co-accused to appear before the magistrate in December 2024.

Aggrieved, Gupta moved the sessions court against the summoning order on technical grounds. The summons was stayed by the sessions court. In his application, moved earlier this month, Gupta claimed that the "entire prosecution is bad in law in view of Article 20(2) of Constitution of India as well as Section 300 of the CrPC."

The application further said, "The pendency of criminal case preferred by Emaar Properties (holding company of complainant herein) before Court of Abu Dhabi was suppressed by the complainant from this (Delhi) court and in earlier proceedings where perusal of judgment shows that criminal complaint was registered on April 24, 2021."