The Congress on Wednesday scoffed at the Opposition's attempts to link Italy's refusal to send back its two marines to face investigations here with India's failure in getting the extradition of Bofors scam accused Ottavio Quattrocchi in the past saying both are different cases. ...
06:25 PM, Mar 13, 2013
If one were to take a purely transaction-oriented approach to the Bofors deal, one will wonder what the fuss is all about. Even Sten Lindstrom, ...
03:48 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: The RSS on Sunday attacked past governments, not even sparing the BJP-led NDA for the Bofors cover-up. An editorial in the RSS mouthpiece 'Organiser' read, "Successive governments of India knew who the culprits were and yet chose to look the other way. Several non-Congress governments came to power, including the one led by VP Singh who had vowed to bring the guilty to book within 100 days of...
09:09 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Saturday denied allegations that the BJP colluded with the Congress to ensure Sonia Gandhi was not questioned in the Bofors case during the NDA rule. In an interview with Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate', the BJP leader blamed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for not questioning the Congress President. Below is an edited excerpt from the interview:...
07:20 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: The RSS has said it is intriguing that Congress President Sonia Gandhi has not figured in the Bofors scam though Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi was close to her even as the Sangh fountainhead charged successive governments with looking the other way in the scandal. The editorial of RSS mouthpiece Organiser states that Sonia Gandhi is the "missing name" in the Bofors corruption case as if she must not...
08:31 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Wednesday said it is not going to have a re-look in the 23-year-old Bofors payoffs case in the wake of claims made by former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom in a media interview. CBI sources ruled out any such possibility, saying it has conducted a comprehensive probe of the matter and filed its charge sheet in the case. On the allegations by Lindstrom, who had...
01:51 AM, Apr 26, 2012
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11:27 PM, Apr 25, 2012
On Wednesday, former Swedish police chief and 'Deep Throat' Sten Lindstrom revealed that while Rajiv Gandhi did not receive any payments in the Bofors deal, he did shield Ottavio Quattrocchi. ...
11:19 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom said in a tell-all interview on Wednesday that Rajiv Gandhi shielded Italian businessman Quattrochi. ...
09:53 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said that the interview of former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom in relation to the Bofors scam clearly revealed that the payments made to Ottavio Quattrocchi's company, AE Services, were political payments and since Rajiv Gandhi was close to him, he was not named. In an interview with IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Jaitley added that the judicial and investigative process into the scam...
09:11 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The ghost of Bofors has returned again and former Prime Minister late Rajiv Gandhi and Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan are the two men who are once again at the centre of it. 25 years after the sensational Bofors gun scam broke, Sweden's chief investigator Sten Lindstrom, who conducted the investigations, has done some plain speak. Sten Lindstrom has owned up to being the informant of journalist Chitra Subramanian...
08:51 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Chitra Subramaniam was the journalist who broke the Bofors story nearly 25 years ago. In an interview with IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, the senior journalist seemed to back former Swedish police chief and her informant in the case, Sten Lindstrom, in his claims that while Rajiv Gandhi did not receive any bribes in the Bofors case, it was a multi-country massive cover-up. Here is a full transcript of the interview:...
06:57 PM, Apr 25, 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
The onus to drop Bofors case against Quattrocchi is of CBI, Government, said the BJP leader. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 04, 2011
New Delhi: Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Tees Hazari Court Justice Vinod Yadav on Friday accepted the CBI's petition of withdrawing prosecution against one of the most wanted men in Bofors Kickback case, Ottavio Quattrocchi. The case against Italian businessman Quattrocchi, the main accused in Bofors Gun Deal Kickbacks, was withdrawn citing wastage of time and money. A sum of Rs 250 crore has been spent in the investigation and nothing...
09:27 PM, Mar 04, 2011
New Delhi: In a major relief for Bofors scam accused Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, a Delhi court on Friday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to withdraw the cases against him. The Tis Hazari court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav allowed the case against Quattrochi in the two-decade-old Bofors kickback scam to be closed, accepting the CBI's plea to withdraw the case. The court observed that Rs 250...
04:12 PM, Mar 04, 2011
New Delhi: A local Delhi court on Monday deferred its order till March 4 on a CBI plea seeking to close all criminal cases against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, one of the alleged recipients of kickbacks in the controversial Bofors gun deal that had led to the fall of the Rajiv Gandhi government. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vindo Yadav reserved the order for March 4 on a plea against Quattrocchi, who...
12:00 PM, Feb 21, 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
