The Italian businessman who was being sought until early 2009 in India for criminal charges for acting as a conduit for bribes in the Bofors scandal passed away in Milan, Italy following a heart attack
Ottavio Quattrocchi. Pic/AFP
Quattrocchi had managed to evade interrogation.
The nearest the CBI came to him was in February 2007 when Quattrocchi was detained in Argentina on the basis of an Interpol warrant.
But the CBI took time in translating documents that were to be presented in the designated court there and also put up a half-hearted effort towards his extradition. It finally lost the case for his extradition four months later.u00a0
In April 2009, the Interpol removed the red-corner notice issued against Quattrocchi after a request from the Central Bureau of Investigation.
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