April 28, 2007
Government Asked to Probe into Website Claim on Quattrocchi
New Delhi
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Samajwadi Party Saturday
asked the government to investigate into a website claim that the
Bofors pay off case accused Ottavio Quattrocchi had conspired with
Sri Lankan rebel outfit LTTE to assassinate former prime minister
Rajiv Gandhi.
Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha, BJP deputy leader Vijay Kumar
Malhotra said a website -
www.politicsparty.com
- had claimed that the fugitive Italian businessman, the key accused
in the Bofors gun purchase deal, was involved in the former Indian
prime minister's assassination in May 1991.
Malhotra as well as Ramjilal Suman of the Samajwadi Party, who
raised the issue along with the BJP MP, asked the government to
investigate the website claim.
Quoting French intelligence agencies, the website says: "In the
course of the routine surveillance the Intelligence Agencies of
France have in their possession on camera footage of a now highly
classified recording of a secret meeting at a Paris five-star hotel
in 1991."
The not-so-well known website claims Quattrocchi met Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Anton Balasingham at a five-star
hotel in Paris and French intelligence agencies secretly recorded
their conversation.
Pointing out that the French government has not commented on the
report, Malhotra said: "The matter is very serious, but the
government has not yet responded to it."
Suman added: "The government has to inform the house about its
details."
Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by LTTE operatives during an election
rally in Tamil Nadu's Sriperumbudur in May, 1991.
Indian government has recently sought the extradition of
Quattarocchi after he was detained in Iguazu International Airport
in Argentina Feb 6 for trying him in the Bofors kickback case.
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