New Delhi: Both Houses of Parliament on Thursday witnessed commotion as Bofors scam was raised by the opposition parties in Rajya Sabha as well as Lok Sabha to corner the Congress-led UPA. The Houses had to be adjourned repeatedly following the uproar on the issue as the treasury and the opposition benches continued to trade charges. While the Opposition demanded a new probe into the scam, the Congress maintained that...
01:18 PM, Apr 26, 2012
The corruption case that led to the rout of the Congress in the 1989 Lok Sabha elections is casting its shadows on the party again. Almost 25 years after the Bofors scam came to light, Sten Lindstrom, the man who blew the lid off the defence corruption case, has claimed that while former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi did not receive any bribe, yet he failed to stop the massive cover-up...
06:31 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The ghost of Bofors returned to haunt the Congress following new revelations by Sten Lindstorm, the man who blew the lid off the defence corruption case. The Congress on Wednesday claimed that the party had always raised the question of Ottavio Quattrocchi while defending former prime minister late Rajiv Gandhi and said that the issue should be closed. "This has been proved again that Rajivji was innocent. This...
06:09 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The man who blew the lid off the Bofors scam, former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstorm, on Wednesday gave a clean chit to actor and then MP Amitabh Bachchan and his family in the case. Revealing his real identity after being known as Swedish Deep Throat for 25 years, Lindstorm had said that Bachchan and his family were planted in a Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, by Indian investigators....
01:42 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Congress leader Salman Khursheed speaks to CNN-IBN on the Bofors payoff case. ...
04:18 PM, Mar 04, 2011
BJP reacts to the verdict in the two-decade-old Bofors payoff case against Quattrocchi. ...
04:11 PM, Mar 04, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to decide on Friday the fate of the over two-decade-old Bofors payoff case against elusive Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav will pronounce his order on the CBI's plea seeking withdrawal of the case against 70-year-old Quattrocchi, who has never appeared before any court in India to face trial. The court, which was to decide on the CBI plea on...
08:40 PM, Mar 03, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday deferred the pronouncement of its judgement on the CBI's plea to drop case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in Bofors payoff case, till March 4. The CBI had, in October 2009, sought permission of the court to withdraw the case against Quattrocchi, saying that his continued prosecution was "unjustified" in the light of various factors including the agency's failed attempts to extradite him....
10:21 AM, Feb 21, 2011
New Delhi: The fate of the over two-decade-old, politically sensitive Bofors payoff case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi is likely to be decided on Monday by a Delhi court. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav will pronounce his order on CBI's plea seeking withdrawal of the case against 70-year-old Quattrocchi, who has never appeared before any court in India to face trial. The CBI had, in October 2009, sought permission of...
08:58 AM, Feb 21, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday contended before a Delhi court that there is no change in government's stand on withdrawing the case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the wake of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) order in the Bofors pay-offs case. Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra said, "The judgement of the tribunal is wholly irrelevant and reliance on it is totally misconceived." He made it clear...
01:08 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Celebrating 5 years, CNN-IBN looks back at Sumon Chakrabarti's close encounter with Ottavio Quattrocchi. ...
12:46 PM, Jan 05, 2011
New Delhi: The Bofors ghost returned to haunt the Congress party with an income tax tribunal saying that kickbacks of Rs 41 crore were paid to late Win Chaddha and Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Howitzer gun deal and that they are liable to pay tax in India on such income. Even as the BJP wants Congress to make an effort to get back Quattrochi, the Congress party has...
07:24 AM, Jan 04, 2011
Investigating agency says no to lawyer's right to info petition. ...
03:36 PM, Nov 22, 2009
Government told Supreme Court to close the case against Quattrocchi. ...
09:42 AM, Sep 30, 2009
The process started in 2004 to give a silent burial to the Bofors case. ...
02:50 AM, Sep 30, 2009
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