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BJP doubts CBI's sincerity

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday raised doubts over the "sincerity'' of the Congress and the CBI in bringing to India Ottavio Quattrocchi, Italian businessman and an accused in the Bofors payoffs case.

Talking to reporters after a meeting of the all-India office-bearers of the party, BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley said the CBI was trying its best to let Mr. Quattrocchi go free this time also as his "extradition and the revelation of the full truth would embarrass Congress president Sonia Gandhi.''

Keeping his detention under wraps was yet another proof of the CBI's intention of attempting to delay the process of complying with legal formalities to enable his extradition, he said.

Concealing his detention was intended to save the Congress from embarrassment during the Assembly elections.

The fact that the CBI conspired with the political executive to hold back this valuable information diminished the impartiality of the agency, he said.

Mr. Jaitley said the UPA Government had persistently attempted to bury the case by either slow investigations, obtaining judicial pronouncement in his favour or government-facilitated unfreezing of Mr. Quattrocchi's bank accounts in London.

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