03-04-2007, 09:26 PM
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Sonia is preventing extradition of Ottavio: Swamy
By OUR CORRESPONDENT
March 3, 2007
Chennai, March 2: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Friday alleged
that Congress president Sonia Gandhi was preventing the extradition of Mr
Ottavio Quattrocchi, a prime accused in the Bofors case, to India.
<b>Dr Swamy told reporters that Mrs Gandhi had pleaded with Italian Prime Minister
Romano Prodi, who visited India in February, not to extradite Mr Quattrocchi to
India.
"The Italian embassy in Buenos Aires has sent a request to the Argentinian
government requesting that Mr Quattrocchi should not be handed over to India.</b>
The embassy claimed that Mr Quattrocchi was a respected man in Italy," Dr Swamy
said.
"I was told about this by a minister in the Argentinian Cabinet, who was my
student at Harvard University. <b>He also told me that the Argentinian police
arrested Mr Quattrocchi while he was engaged in illegal arms trade with
Lebanese Shia militia </b>and not because of the Interpol red alert notice," Dr
Swamy said.
According to Dr Swamy, the Argentinian authorities came across the red alert
while they were verifying the credentials of Mr Quattrocchi in the police
computer network.
<b>"The Argentinian authorities alerted India on the same day but because of a
conspiracy hatched by Mrs Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a lot
of time was wasted and Quattrocchi went scot-free," alleged Dr Swamy.</b>
He said former CBI chief Joginder Singh had noted in a file during his tenure
that the Bofors scandal could be solved only by questioning Mrs Gandhi.
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Sonia is preventing extradition of Ottavio: Swamy
By OUR CORRESPONDENT
March 3, 2007
Chennai, March 2: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Friday alleged
that Congress president Sonia Gandhi was preventing the extradition of Mr
Ottavio Quattrocchi, a prime accused in the Bofors case, to India.
<b>Dr Swamy told reporters that Mrs Gandhi had pleaded with Italian Prime Minister
Romano Prodi, who visited India in February, not to extradite Mr Quattrocchi to
India.
"The Italian embassy in Buenos Aires has sent a request to the Argentinian
government requesting that Mr Quattrocchi should not be handed over to India.</b>
The embassy claimed that Mr Quattrocchi was a respected man in Italy," Dr Swamy
said.
"I was told about this by a minister in the Argentinian Cabinet, who was my
student at Harvard University. <b>He also told me that the Argentinian police
arrested Mr Quattrocchi while he was engaged in illegal arms trade with
Lebanese Shia militia </b>and not because of the Interpol red alert notice," Dr
Swamy said.
According to Dr Swamy, the Argentinian authorities came across the red alert
while they were verifying the credentials of Mr Quattrocchi in the police
computer network.
<b>"The Argentinian authorities alerted India on the same day but because of a
conspiracy hatched by Mrs Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a lot
of time was wasted and Quattrocchi went scot-free," alleged Dr Swamy.</b>
He said former CBI chief Joginder Singh had noted in a file during his tenure
that the Bofors scandal could be solved only by questioning Mrs Gandhi.
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