New Delhi, Nov 26: CBI is seeking to trace on a top priority basis the route through which the Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, an accused in the Rs 133 crore Bofors payoff case, channeled Rs 21 crore to two British bank accounts. The Queen's Bench Division of London High Court in its order of November 24 had dismissed the application filed by Quattrocchi for discharge of the restraint order issued by it on the movement of funds from his two bank accounts in a London bank.
Quattrocchi, against whom an Interpol red corner notice is pending, has an amount of three million Euros and one million dollars in accounts number 5A51516l and 5A51516M in BSI AG, London respectively.
Bureau Report