NEW DELHI:
A single attempt of the CBI to get Bofors kickback
case accused Ottavio Quattrocchi extradited from
Argentina in 2007 made a dent of over Rs 40 lakh to
the exchequer.
The agency sent two of its senior officials twice to
get the elusive Italian businessman from the Latin American
country in 2007 but failed in its attempt as it could not produce
proper legal documents before the court there.
CBI, which faced flak for its unsuccessful attempts to
bring Quattrocchi to India for standing trial in the case,
spent Rs 40.14 lakh on the trips to Argentina on two
officials which includes expenses on their visits, fees
of the local counsel, translation charges, transportation and
expenditure on boarding and lodging, an RTI reply from the agency says.
RTI applicant Abhishek Shukla had sought the details of
all the foreign visits made by CBI teams during the probe
of Bofors kickback case along with the expenditure but the
agency did not give any details other than the Argentina visit.
"During the last five years (since January 2005), a team of two
CBI officers had made two trips to Argentina in the year 2007
for 25 and eight days respectively in connection with the extradition
of Ottavio Quattrocchi from Argentina in Bofors case," the agency said in its reply.
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