Quattrocchi flies home, India left squabbling

FREE MAN: Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi left Argentina for Italy on Tuesday.

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New Delhi: Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi is a free man today after India withdrew the appeal for his extradition in the Supreme Court of Argentina last Thursday, enabling the Argentine authorities to release his passport. The Italian middleman left Argentina for Italy on Tuesday.

Information on the case has been closely guarded since the failure of CBI's extradition attempt in El Dorado on June 8.

Now, CBI sources have told CNN-IBN that they were kept in the dark by the Indian Embassy in Argentina for five days about the latest development.

Meanwhile, political mudslinging has already begun in New Delhi over Quattrocchi’s freedom. The BJP has called it sabotage while the ruling Congress has shrugged off any responsibility regarding the issue.

“All this was a collusive exercise to allow Quattrocchi to escape and I think the CBI must be complementing itself along with the Government of India but they need to be scandalised in the whole country for having done this,” BJP General Secretary Arun Jaitley said.

While Congress Spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, “The Congress has nothing to do with this. This is a legal process. The person (Quattrocchi) has been let off and he has gone back according to the laws of a different country.”

However, CBI director Vijay Shankar has told CNN-IBN that Quattrocchi will be pursed by the investigative agency because he still remains an absconder in their books and the Red Corner Notice against him will also remain in effect for now.

Quattrocchi was detained at Iguazu Airport in Argentina's Misiones province in February this year on the basis of a Red Corner Notice issued by Interpol at the behest of the CBI. His wife, who was with him in Argentina, had left for Italy three months ago.