Q was bigger than India.

So Big Q, as Ottavio Quattrocchi was known, has had the last laugh. For years different governments in India played games with him as the CBI chased him around the world but somehow could never make the case for his arrest and extradition to India to stand trial for bribery. Must have cost the taxpayer in excess of Rs 1 billion but to no avail. Did he have a guardian angel in Delhi keeping the CBI on a leash? We will never know. Mind you the CBI boys would have had a fantastic time as they sampled the expensive fleshpots of the world. The millionaires' paradise of St Kitts was a nice touch. On 24 March, 1986 India signed a contract with the Swedish firm of Bofors to supply 400 Howitzer field guns at a cost of $15 billion. On 16 April, 1987 Swedish radio claimed kickbacks had been paid to secure the contract. On 22 January, 1990 CBI registered a complaint. On 21 May 1991 Mr Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated. On 29 July, 1993 Q left India to avoid arrest. Already 6 years had elapsed since the exposure of the scam and even 2 years after the death of Mr Gandhi Q was being protected. So strong was his protection that even when the BJP was in power from 1998 to 2004 they did nothing to bring him to justice. On 20 December, 2000 Q was arrested in Malaysia but nothing came of it. When the Congress came to power in 2004 they unfroze his account so that he could access his bribe money and then all charges were dropped in 2010. On 24 April, 2012 the former head of the Swedish Police, Sten Lindstrom revealed himself. He said," There was no evidence that he ( Rajiv Gandhi ) had received any bribe. But he watched the massive cover-up in India and Sweden and did nothing. Many Indian institutions were tarred, innocent people were punished while the guilty got away. The evidence against Ottavio Quattrocchi was conclusive. Through a front company called AE Services bribes paid by Bofors landed in Quattracchi's account which he subsequently cleaned out because India said there was no evidence linking him to the Bofors deal. Nobody in Sweden or Switzerland was allowed to interrogate him." That is why he was being sheltered in India. " Under pressure from Swedish and Indian media and with the threat of a cancellation of the contract hanging over them, Bofors sent its top executives to India with the one-point agenda of giving out the names. Nobody of any consequence received them," he said. Bofors led to Bhopal when Anderson of Union Carbide was personally escorted to his plane after the massacre of thousands. Q maybe dead but the traitors are still alive. Find them and hang them.