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
Mumbai: Expressing happiness over his name being cleared in the Bofors payoff scam, mega-star Amitabh Bachchan, however, said Wednesday that he is 'pained' that it came after 25 years. Speaking to reporters here, Bachchan welcomed the revelations made by the Swedish investigators in the Bofors case. He said he had "lived with humiliation and loss of reputation" all these years. "I am happy that the truth has emerged after 25...
01:01 PM, Apr 26, 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
New Delhi: Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has heaved a sigh of relief after 25 years as he was a given a clean chit in the Bofors scam by the whistleblower. Sweden's chief investigator Sten Lindstrom, who conducted the investigations said that Amitabh Bachchan's name was planted by Indian investigating agencies. Speaking on Amitabh Bachchan, he said, "They gave me a list of names to pursue including the name of Amitabh...
10:13 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
New Delhi: An indignant but relieved Amitabh Bachchan on Wednesday said he and his family had to wait for 25 years for his name to be cleared in the Bofors scam after the main informant in the controversial deal said the case against the actor and his family was planted in a Swedish newspaper by Indian investigators. Sten Lindstrom, the former head of Swedish police who led the investigations into...
08:26 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: Sten Lindstrom, the former head of Swedish police who led the investigations into the Bofors gun deal and 25 years after the media revelations came out as the whistleblower Swedish Deep Throat, said he was given a list of names to pursue which included that of super star Amitabh Bachchan. In an interview to journalist Chitra Subramaniam-Duella published by the Hoot, Lindstrom said he met a team of...
06:27 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: Actor Amitabh Bachchan reacted with relief in a late night blog post on Wednesday to his exoneration in the Bofors case after the main informant in the controversial deal said the case against the actor and then Congress MP and his family was planted in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter by Indian investigators. Former Swedish Police chief Sten Lindstrom has owned up to being the informant of journalist Chitra...
02:04 PM, Apr 25, 2012
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