New Delhi: The CBI has sought sanction to prosecute former Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma on Friday, Shashi Kant Sharma who later became Comptroller and Audit General (CAG) and four IAF officers in the Agusta Westland VVIP chopper scam.

In connection with alleged corruption in the Agusta Westland VVIP helicopter deal worth Rs. 3, 600 crores. The CBI is likely to file a supplementary charge sheet giving the role of Chris Michel, the alleged middleman in the deal who was deported from the UAE and is currently in judicial custody, said officials. In order to prosecute the officers whose alleged role surface during investigation, the CBI has approached the Defence Ministry seeking nod to prosecute Sharma and the then Air Vice Marshal Jasbir Singh Panesar and others.

CBI in its supplementary charge sheet is also likely to give the alleged roles of some former public servants, who were holding key decisions making positions when the deal for the helicopters was being discussed, CBI officials said.