Ottavio Quattrocchi was an Italian businessman who was being sought until early 2009 in India for criminal charges for acting as a conduit for bribes in the Bofors scandal.
19 Facts About Ottavio Quattrocchi
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On 6 February 2007, Ottavio Quattrocchi was detained in Argentina on the basis of the Interpol warrant.
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Ottavio Quattrocchi was reported as visiting India frequently, and running an office in Bangalore.
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Ottavio Quattrocchi was present in India at the time of his father's Argentina arrest in February 2007, and there is speculation that he may have met Priyanka Vadra around that time.
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Ottavio Quattrocchi, born in Mascali, province of Catania, Sicily, in 1938, arrived in India in the mid 1960s as the representative of Italian oil and gas firm Eni and its engineering arm Snamprogetti.
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Ottavio Quattrocchi's family became close to the Gandhi family based on their connection with Rajiv Gandhi's Italian wife Sonia Gandhi, the former president of Indian National Congress party.
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Around 1974, Ottavio Quattrocchi was introduced to Shri Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi by an Italian named Mr Molinari.
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Ottavio Quattrocchi thus became very close to Rajiv Gandhi and his wife.
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Singh, Finance Minister in the Rajiv Gandhi Cabinet, has stated that Ottavio Quattrocchi had sought appointment with him on a number of occasions but he did not give him any appointment.
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The award of Jagdishpur Fertilizer Plant to Ottavio Quattrocchi, changing earlier decision for SPIC, is a clear case.
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In July 1993, the Swiss courts had permitted naming the account operators, and Ottavio Quattrocchi had been officially named.
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On 22 October 1999, with the Bharatiya Janata Party -led NDA government in power, the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a chargesheet against Ottavio Quattrocchi, naming AE Services as a front company run by Ottavio Quattrocchi and his wife Maria.
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Mr Datta conveyed his instructions on behalf of the Government of India, the Ministry of Justice and the Central Bureau of Investigation that no useful purpose will be served by maintaining the Restraining Order dated July 25,2003, as there is no longer any reasonable prospect of the case against Mr Ottavio Quattrocchi proceeding to trial.
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The CBI asserted in court that Ottavio Quattrocchi was still wanted in charges related to Bofors.
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The main case against Ottavio Quattrocchi continues to trickle through the Indian court system.
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On 6 February 2007, Ottavio Quattrocchi was detained in Argentina on the basis of the Interpol warrant.
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At the time of the Argentine arrest, Massimo Ottavio Quattrocchi had purportedly been in India for seven months.
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Ottavio Quattrocchi had arrived in New Delhi on 21 July 2006, on Lufthansa flight 760, and left by Lufthansa flight 761 on 22 February.
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Ottavio Quattrocchi died from a heart attack on 13 July 2013 in Milan, Italy.