CBI to seek more clarifications on Bofors documents

CBI to seek more clarifications on Bofors documents
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17: In a bid to identify the end beneficiaries of pay-offs in the Rs 1,437 crore Bofors gun deal, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will seek some clarifications from the Swiss authorities on the final set of bank documents received by it from Berne.

"We need some more clarifications on certain open-ended bank documents which are not complete" and the agency will be approaching the Swiss authorities asking for some more information, CBI Director R K Raghavan told PTI here on Friday.

Asked whether the investigating agency was expecting some more papers relating to the 155 mm Howitzer deal case from abroad, he said, "Papers will keep coming. Whatever we want, most of it has come."

Regarding the response from the Hinduja brothers, based in London and Geneva, to CBI letters seeking their cooperation in the Bofors probe, Raghavan said, "They want us to go there. But we have to check whether we can go there or they will have to come here."

The CBI recently sent two letters to the Hindujas asking them to come to India to assist in the investigation but the NRI businessmen expressed their inability to do so while denying their involvement in the Swedish gun deal. A third letter to them is on its way.