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Thief
April 11, 2004
The principal Swedish Bofors case investigator Sten
Lindstrom revelations, on the pressure from the congress
government in India that resulted in the misdirection and
closing down of the Bofors investigation is really stunning
information that points the finger at Rajiv and Sonia. The
pressure from India also led to the Swedish National Audit
Bureau sending a blanked out version of its inquiry to India.
When a team of senior executives from Bofors traveled to
India to testify before the Joint Parliamentary Committee,
they were prevented from doing so. Instead they met a
small group of officials to whom they did not hand over any
names He says that Ottavio Quattrocchi, the Italian
middleman who negotiated the political payoff through A E
Services, and who was paid $7,123,000 as a gift must be
interrogated along with Sonia Gandhi . 320 million Swedish
kronor had been paid as bribe for the Bofors deal to the
Hindujas and Win Chadha. Win Chadha used to get faxes in
Dubai on cabinet decisions on Bofors from the office of Rajiv
Gandhi when Rajiv was the prime minister. I still
remember the day Rajiv Gandhi visited the Dubai
businessman Chabria at his office in the Jumbo house in Bur
Dubai in the night like a thief when Chabria was wanted by
the Indian police and it was a real shocker for me. I would
not have believed it had I not seen the incident. Only time
will tell as to what was the reason for that secret and
clandestine meeting in Dubai.
Italian government has approached our government in
October 2003 with a request to drop the case against
Quattrocchi which means that the Sonia marrying Rajiv is
not a simple boy meets the girl thing, but could be a
planned operation by the Vatican. We have to look at Sikkim
where a CIA agent Hope Cooke was presented as an
American research student to Sikkim prince and future King
Palden Thondup Namgyal, for creating an independent
Sikkim. Sikkim used to be a protectorate of India, which had
overall responsibility for its defense and foreign relations.
Barring this, the territory enjoyed some autonomy under the
Chogyal (ruler). The Indian intelligence were aware of CIA
plot. Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal aged 39 married Hope
Cooke, 22 in 1963 and conveniently his father Tashi
Namgyal, the eleventh chogyal died in the same year . Our
government in 1975 ended the special status of Sikkim and
Cook along with chogyal emigrated to US.