New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has withdrawn 16 cases, including the high-profile Bofors scam, in the past three years, parliament was informed Wednesday.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Prithviraj Chavan told the Lok Sabha that on the basis of CBI report and advice of both Attorney General [...]
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has been investigating the Bofors gun payoff scandal, has refused to reveal any information sought under the Right to Information (RTI) about Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, stating that it ‘would impede the process of apprehension and prosecution of the accused’.
The information was sought [...]
Chennai, Nov 21 (IANS) The scam in allocation of 2G spectrum is 1,000 times bigger than the infamous Bofors gun scandal and how long is everyone going to pretend that it has not taken place, AIADMK General Secretary J. Jayalalithaa asked here Saturday.
Releasing copies of letters written by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Central Vigilance Commission [...]
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday mourned the death of veteran Congress leader and former minister B. Shankaranand, who headed the joint parliamentary probe into the $1.3 billion Bofors gun scandal.
Shankaranand died Thursday of cardiac arrest in a Karnataka hospital. He was 84.
In a condolence message to the bereaved family, Manmohan [...]
Bangalore, Nov 20 (IANS) Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist and long time Congressman B. Shankaranand, who headed the joint parliamentary probe into $1.3 billion Bofors gun scandal, died Thursday of cardiac arrest. He was 84.
He passed away at a private hospital in Belgaum, about 500 km from here. He was admitted to the hospital Nov 18 with [...]
Belgaum (Karnataka), Nov 20 (ANI): Veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister B. Shankaranand died at a private hospital here this morning.
He was 84. Shankaranand had been suffering from heart disease for quite some time. According to hospital sources, he had been put on ventilator support after developing breathing complications three days ago.
Shankranand, a Gandhi [...]
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) An advocate Thursday questioned the authenticity of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) counsel who moved an application before a city court to withdraw the case against Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi, and said two government lawyers had defended one of the accused in the case.
Ajay Agarwal, the advocate who filed [...]
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) A city court Friday reserved its order on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea to withdraw Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi’s name from the Bofors gun deal pay-off case.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja reserved the order for Oct 24 on whether the CBI’s application under Section 321 of Criminal Procedure [...]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (ANI): The fate of Italian Businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi might be decided on Saturday as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will be pleading before a Delhi court seeking closure of prosecution in Bofors pay off case.
The Public Prosecutor, on behalf of the CBI, will move an application before the Magistrate’s Court.
The [...]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) A lawyer, who has been pursuing a case involving Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Supreme Court, Thursday moved an application in a city court seeking rejection of any closure report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Bofors case.
Advocate Ajay Agarwal, in his application before Chief [...]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has decided to move an application before the Magistrates Court here on Saturday to withdraw cases against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchhi in the Bofors gun purchasing scam.
The Public Prosecutor, on behalf of the CBI, will move an application before the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday.
The [...]
New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday defended the government decision to close all cases against fugitive Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, accused of receiving illegal kickbacks in the Bofors gun purchase scandal of the mid-1980s.
Responding to a question on Solicitor General Gopal Subramanian’s intimation to the Supreme Court Tuesday about the government’s [...]
New Delhi, Sep 30 (ANI): Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily has backed the Centre’s decision to drop the case against Ottavio Quattrocchi admitting that there was nothing left to do in the case.
Ottavio Quattrocchi, an Italian businessman, is the main accused in the Bofors gun purchase scam.
Moily pleaded helplessness in the investigation and defended [...]
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) The government Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it has decided to close all cases against fugitive Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, accused of receiving Rs.7 billion in illegal kickbacks in the Bofors gun purchase scandal of the mid-1980s.
Appearing for the Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI), Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told [...]
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) It was merely a question of time before the government decided to stop all prosecution against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi for his alleged involvement in the Bofors gun payoff case of the 1980s, especially after the CBI decided in April to strike off his name from its list of wanted [...]
New Delhi, Sept 29 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation CBI) on Tuesday decided to withdraw all cases registered against ofors scam main accused and Italian businessman Ottavio uattrocchi.
“We want to close the matter against Bofors accused [...]
