The time has come for Sonia to talk if she wants the Bofors ghost to be exorcised

For 20 years India has been haunted by a ghost, which refuses to be exorcised! The Bofors ghost has survived nine governments, eight prime ministers, innumerable hearings from the lowest court in the country to the highest, and an array of actors in the drama, some of who are dead and gone. It continues to periodically occupy our media and the mind space as politicians get excited or depressed, depending on which side they are.

Through it all, the Italian businessman and middleman in the Bofors deal, and one of the main accused in the scandal, Ottavio Quattrocchi has serenely moved from middle age to a senior citizen, and continues to evade the sometimes enthusiastic, sometimes conniving, sometimes disinterested CBI.
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