International - India & World   

CBI team visits El Dorado

Buenos Aires: The two-member Central Bureau of Investigation team, now here on a mission to get Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi to India, visited El Dorado city in the Missiones province of Argentina and met the Public Prosecutor. He would assist the Indian Government in the extradition proceedings.

Indian Ambassador Pramathesh Rath said the team visited the province to get itself briefed on the extradition proceedings.

S.K. Sharma, CBI's Director of Prosecution, said it met Public Prosecutor Lilian Delgado, who was yet to get the extradition papers filed by the Indian Government before the Argentine Foreign Ministry last week.

Once the judge concerned got the papers, these would be given to Mr. Delgado, he said.

Mr. Quattrocchi, who was detained last month on the basis of an Interpol Red Corner Notice and released on bail with the condition that he should not leave Argentina, has been avoiding journalists who are trying to get his side of the story. — PTI

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

LTTE, allies to blame: Colombo
Outrage over police attack on black girl
Japan-North Korea talks end in stalemate
Democrats for Iraq pullout by 2008
Ali nominated
Nine die in New York fire
CPN-M to return property
CBI team visits El Dorado
N-deal will not fuel arms race: U.S.

Copyright © 2007, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu