Quattrocchi ready to be quizzed

NEW DELHI, August 8: Ottavio Quattrocchi, the Italian businessman wanted by CBI and is facing arrest in the Bofors payoffs case, today said he was “ready and willing” to be interviewed in Kuala Lumpur to clear his name “once and for all”.

In a statement released by Spotlight’, which claims to be his public relations agency, Quattrocchi whose application for quashing the arrest warrant in the case was rejected by the Delhi High Court earlier this week, said, “I am not a fugitive from justice and I have never attempted to evade questioning.”

“The sad fact is that people do not know that I have never been approached. I am ready and willing to be interviewed in Kuala Lumpur in the presence of my counsel to clear my name once and for all and to bring to a conclusion this long standing matter which has been perpetuated, no doubt, for political gains by those who are not interested in the truth,” he said in a statement signed by him.