New Delhi: Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, who was a key figure in the Bofors payoffs scandal, has died in Milan following a stroke.
74-year-old Quattrocchi died peacefully on Friday. His funeral will take place on Monday, a member of the family told PTI on phone from the Italian city.
The Bofors chargesheet filed in 1999 by CBI had named Quattrocchi, who was close to the Gandhi family during his days in India as the representative of an Italian firm, as one of the accused in the case regarding the Rs. 64 crore payoffs for supply of Swedish Howitzer guns to the Indian Army.
The Rs.1,600-crore contract was clinched in 1986.
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