The Central Bureau of Investigation is 'helping' Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, an accused in the Bofors case, after the UPA government came into power in 2004, an advocate alleged in the Supreme Court on Friday.
"It is ex-facie clear that the CBI is helping Quattrocchi ever since the change of guards at the Centre after the general elections in 2004 in the country and at every step CBI is facilitating Quattrocchi so that he may go free from the Bofors investigation," advocate Ajay Agrawal said in an affidavit.
The advocate, who had filed an application questioning government's effort in securing the foreign national's extradition from Argentina after he was detained on February 6, 2007, said the El Dorado court declined India's request as the original arrest order of 1997 by a court in New Delhi was not produced by the CBI.
He was responding to the