New Delhi:
The skeletons of Bofors scam are out to haunt the Government again as the Income Tax Tribunal claims that Ottavio Quattrochi got kickbacks by the Indian Government.
The tribunal says kickbacks were paid to Quattrocchi and Win Chadha in the nearly Rs 1,500 crore Bofors deal. (Read: Timeline of Bofors scandal)
The kickbacks violated rules as middlemen are illegal in defence deals in India. Therefore, Quattrocchi and Chaddha are liable to pay income tax on bribe money they got while living in India.
It also claimed that due to the kickbacks, India had to pay almost Rs 160 crore extra for the guns.
Meanwhile, the Quattrocchi case is expected to come in the Tees Hazari court on Tuesday.
The court is likely to deliver an order on the CBI's petition seeking withdrawal of the caseon the grounds that there is no evidence against him and that persisting with the case against Quattrocchi will serve no purpose.
The CBI had filed the petition more than a year ago and it was pending for a long time.
Also, as a reaction to the I-T Tribunal's claims, the BJP slammed Congress in New Delhi on Monday. In a press conference, Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, "This was not merely a case of bribery... bribery was accompanied by a huge cover-up operation... nobody has answered the questions which this order raises... why was Quattrochi paid the money?"
(Watch: Send corrupt to jail, don't cover up - Arun Jaitley to Govt)
But the Congress played it down. "We have to see the order - what context, what detail - and then we will certainly react, but we are not going to be hurried into reacting because some news report is being carried or BJP has reacted," Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said. (Watch)
Ottavio Quattrochi is the only accused in the case who is alive.
The tribunal says kickbacks were paid to Quattrocchi and Win Chadha in the nearly Rs 1,500 crore Bofors deal. (Read: Timeline of Bofors scandal)
The kickbacks violated rules as middlemen are illegal in defence deals in India. Therefore, Quattrocchi and Chaddha are liable to pay income tax on bribe money they got while living in India.
It also claimed that due to the kickbacks, India had to pay almost Rs 160 crore extra for the guns.
Meanwhile, the Quattrocchi case is expected to come in the Tees Hazari court on Tuesday.
The court is likely to deliver an order on the CBI's petition seeking withdrawal of the caseon the grounds that there is no evidence against him and that persisting with the case against Quattrocchi will serve no purpose.
The CBI had filed the petition more than a year ago and it was pending for a long time.
Also, as a reaction to the I-T Tribunal's claims, the BJP slammed Congress in New Delhi on Monday. In a press conference, Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, "This was not merely a case of bribery... bribery was accompanied by a huge cover-up operation... nobody has answered the questions which this order raises... why was Quattrochi paid the money?"
(Watch: Send corrupt to jail, don't cover up - Arun Jaitley to Govt)
But the Congress played it down. "We have to see the order - what context, what detail - and then we will certainly react, but we are not going to be hurried into reacting because some news report is being carried or BJP has reacted," Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said. (Watch)
Ottavio Quattrochi is the only accused in the case who is alive.
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