Red Colour Notice removed for Quattrochi

In last days of UPA govt, Quattrocchi is off CBI’s wanted list

With just three weeks to go before the Congress-led UPA government’s term ends, Ottavio Quattrocchi, the lone surviving suspect in the Bofors payoff case, no longer figures in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s list of wanted persons.

The 12-year Interpol Red Corner Notice (RCN) against the Italian businessman has been taken off the “Interpol Notices” section of the agency’s website.
Ostensibly, the CBI’s move is based on the legal opinion of Attorney General Milon Banerjee dated October 28 last year. According to the opinion, a copy of which has been obtained by The Indian Express, Banerjee calls the RCN “a continuing embarrassment.”

Banerjee writes: “The CBI is under an obligation to have the matters set right at the Interpol level as there is no basis on which the RCN can continue...I am of the firm opinion that immediate action should be taken to withdraw the Red Corner Notice”.

When asked when and why the Red Corner Notice was withdrawn, CBI Director Ashwani Kumar told The Indian Express tonight: “The Government will reply to the issue because the matter is sub judice.”

Sources said the CBI is expected to inform the Special Judge of a Delhi court of this decision when hearing comes up on April 30. The agency is expected to argue that it has gone by the AG’s opinion.

The push for withdrawing the RCN came in October 2008 after Quattrocchi’s counsel filed a “protest” to the CBI “complaining against the continuation and legal validity of the Red Corner Notice issued by the Interpol Secretariat General”.

When Advani talks of bringing back all the black money in the Swiss banks, I always laugh.
Here the Congress is driving the last nail in the Bofors scam and he was unable to bring back the money although he had one full term in office.
They are all birds of one nest.
The warm each others nest and hence you cannot nail any one party.
I understand why Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi is so much against independents.
It is only the Independents who would book them when they rise as a force.
At present, the independents are a dispersed force, many candidates fighting from one seat.
Once they understand they are all fighting for the same cause(to remove corrupt politicians) and put up one candidate, that will be the waterloo of the corrupt political parties.
The day of reckoning is soon to come.
Above, we have an Italian , President of the Congress party, removing the shackles from her fellow Italian family friend.
Bye Bye Quattrocchi and India's 65 crores in bribes.