Printing of India in search of the "italian connections" of Ottavio Quattrocchi, a Sicilian businessman sought by police in New Delhi and tied to the fate of Gandhi family and its governments. The last episode of the cost even if an electoral defeat at Rajiv many anxieties and his widow Sonia Italian, took place well away from the palaces of power in the capital of India, in the splendid setting of the Iguazu Falls on the border between Brazil and Argentina. Here Ottavio Quattrocchi, class Mascali in 1938 by Catanese, was arrested February 6 and took the plane to Buenos Aires on the basis of an Interpol alert, the international police agency called for investigation by the central Delhi.
The accusation is that he was in the 80s to the Ombudsman on behalf of the Congress for a huge contract style Tangentopoli 13 million dollars won by the firm AB Bofors guns to supply the army in India. The contractor has been waiting in a cell argentina decisions about his fate while the story remained strictly confidential. And one of the many shots of this scene of yellow political Financial lasting exactly 20 years, a court of Justice has released on bail in the day when India initiated proceedings for the extradition.
Now a squad of officers is about to reach Argentina with documents yet to be translated into Spanish, with whom they intend to prove that at the request of Quattrocchi large bribes were paid by Bofors of Sweden Swiss bank accounts of senior figures in India. But not only is the skepticism of foreign judges to make difficult the transfer of authority of Quattrocchi in India. Man of the biggest judicial scandal in the modern history of India is an Italian citizen, and the possibility of extraditing in a third country are very remote.
The political opposition in India have been denounced the silence of the authorities, which would have kept the news secret from February 6th to avoid the re-emergence of a national scandal on the eve of the approval of the delicate balance of federal and while carrying out the elections in three states . Among the most severe critics of the exponents governing party, the ultra-religious BJP playing on the nationality of Quattrocchi to show the "Italian connection" of the Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. According to the BJP's ties with the business Nerhu-Gandhi family have tried for years, and explained by the rapid ascent of the young officer of Eni, which landed in India in 1964 (when he was just 26 years) to deal fertilizer, and in this branch become the leader of a small financial empire, as well as mediate other government procurement figures for more than 60 million dollars.
This morning's session of the Indian Parliament has been interrupted by protests of opposition parties who, at the cry of "Sonia Gandhi is a thief", have asked the government clarification on the issue. The opposition suspects that she and her party of Congress have wanted to hide the news of the detention of Quattrocchi, announced only last Saturday, in order to pass in silence the thirty days required for extradition.
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