That was not the end of the story either. On 6 February 2007, based on an Interpol alert, Quattrocchi was detained in Argentina, but the CBI put up only a feeble fight for extradition, thus letting him get away. Under Congress rule, the very might of the state protected Quattrocchi. In April 2009, the CBI asked Interpol to withdraw the international red-corner notice against the Italian. In March 2011, a Delhi trial court discharged Quattrocchi in the Bofors case. The magistrate noted that the CBI had failed to provide any legally sustainable evidence despite twenty-one years of investigation.
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