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CBI has proof of Quattrocchi getting USD 7.32 mn: Joginder
New Delhi, Apr 28 (PTI) Former director of India's
premier investigating agency Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) Joginder Singh claimed Tuesday that the agency had proof
that Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi had allegedly
received USD 7.32 million as kickbacks in Rs 64 crore Bofors
scam.
"There are documents with the CBI showing that
Quattrocchi received USD 7.32 million. The documents have been
given by the Swiss authorities themselves," the former CBI
Director, who brought the documents from Switzerland, told PTI
here.
He claimed that the documents were with the government
and the CBI and also part of records in Delhi High Court.
Singh, who had gone to Switzerland in 1997 and brought
nearly 500 pages of documents released by Swiss banks, said
"when I took over, I found that the the CBI had a room full of
documents relating to Bofors case but no one had touched
them."
Singh said after bringing back the documents he had sent
a report to the government in three months.
Asked why the government did not do anything, he said,
"It is up to the government to accept it or not. I don't
regret because I did my job."
Asked if the decision of dropping the name of Quattrocchi
from the Interpol's Red Corner notice was wrong, he said "the
government has all the rights...the CBI is not an independent
agency. It has to carry out whatever the government says. You
may not agree with it but there is option than to carry out
whatever they say."
CBI had approached Attorney General Milon Banerjee last
year for an opinion as to whether to continue with the Red
Corner notice issued by the Interpol against Quattrocchi as
its five year term was coming to an end.
Banerjee cited inability of CBI to seek Quattrocchi's
extradition on two occasions --first in Malaysia in 2003 and
then in Argentina in 2007--and opined that the judgements in
both the cases indicated that there were no good grounds for
extradition.
"....The warrant cannot remain in force forever.
Therefore, the warrant of February 1997 would lose its
validity, particularly in view of the successive failed
attempts of the CBI to get the accused extradited from
Malaysia and recently from Argentina," Banerjee, the country's
top law officer, said. PTI SAP
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premier investigating agency Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) Joginder Singh claimed Tuesday that the agency had proof
that Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi had allegedly
received USD 7.32 million as kickbacks in Rs 64 crore Bofors
scam.
"There are documents with the CBI showing that
Quattrocchi received USD 7.32 million. The documents have been
given by the Swiss authorities themselves," the former CBI
Director, who brought the documents from Switzerland, told PTI
here.
He claimed that the documents were with the government
and the CBI and also part of records in Delhi High Court.
Singh, who had gone to Switzerland in 1997 and brought
nearly 500 pages of documents released by Swiss banks, said
"when I took over, I found that the the CBI had a room full of
documents relating to Bofors case but no one had touched
them."
Singh said after bringing back the documents he had sent
a report to the government in three months.
Asked why the government did not do anything, he said,
"It is up to the government to accept it or not. I don't
regret because I did my job."
Asked if the decision of dropping the name of Quattrocchi
from the Interpol's Red Corner notice was wrong, he said "the
government has all the rights...the CBI is not an independent
agency. It has to carry out whatever the government says. You
may not agree with it but there is option than to carry out
whatever they say."
CBI had approached Attorney General Milon Banerjee last
year for an opinion as to whether to continue with the Red
Corner notice issued by the Interpol against Quattrocchi as
its five year term was coming to an end.
Banerjee cited inability of CBI to seek Quattrocchi's
extradition on two occasions --first in Malaysia in 2003 and
then in Argentina in 2007--and opined that the judgements in
both the cases indicated that there were no good grounds for
extradition.
"....The warrant cannot remain in force forever.
Therefore, the warrant of February 1997 would lose its
validity, particularly in view of the successive failed
attempts of the CBI to get the accused extradited from
Malaysia and recently from Argentina," Banerjee, the country's
top law officer, said. PTI SAP
PMR
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