New Delhi, March 25 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will conclude its probe in the $210 million Embraer deal, going on since 2016, by November this year, people familiar with the development said.

The federal agency is waiting for reply of letter rogatories (LRs) or judicial requests from some countries on the matter, after which a supplementary charge sheet on any role of public servants in the defence deal will be detailed.

Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Brazilian firm Embraer signed a contract in 2008 for the supply of three EMB-145 aircrafts . The allegation is that Embraer engaged middleman Vipin Khanna (who died in November 2019) and in lieu of facilitating the deal, the firm paid him an amount...