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Quattrocchi moves out of hotel

Buenos Aires: Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, grounded in Argentina on an Interpol red corner notice, has shifted from the Sheraton hotel here to an undisclosed place.

Mr. Quattrocchi, who the Central Bureau of Investigation wants in India for trial in the Bofors kickbacks case, checked out of the hotel with his wife, Maria, on Thursday night. His whereabouts were not known, hotel sources said.

Mediapersons, including some from Indian television channels, have been pursuing him for interviews.

Mr. Quattrocchi was holed up in the Sheraton Buenos Aires and Convention Center ever since he was given bail by an Argentinean court on February 27, but ordered not to leave the country.

Mr. Quattrocchi's lawyer, Alejandro Freeland, expressed annoyance at the media "harassing" his client..

Mr. Quattrocchi's "arrest" in Argentina was politically motivated as he could find no juridical or rational arguments to allow him to be "pursued, acquitted and arrested again for allegations that are now 20 years old," Mr. Freeland said.

— PTI

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