Hypocrisy Series. Posting #3.
Hypocrisy #3
The arrest of Octavio Quattrocchi in Argentina raised hopes in many minds that he would at last be taken to book. Some even said that God’s mill grinds slow, but sure. Sceptic as I am, I told them to wait and see.
We have seen that these self-seeking hypocrites who call themselves our ‘leaders’ would do everything to thwart the due process of law in order to save the boy-friend of the Empress of India, and her accessory in the Bofors loot . That Quattrocchi is invincible has been proved in the past; he was not arrested for seven long days, while he was in India, and was allowed to pass through the airport and flee the country (then why, pray, all this farce about his extradition?). Again his account in London that had been frozen in connection with the Bofors scandal was de-frozen by the government of India, and he quickly withdrew the money that was in that account before the Indian public could say ‘how’.
When the guy was arrested in Argentina on 6 Feb, our ‘patriotic’ leaders in Delhi had to find ways and means to unhook him. Knowing that an extradition request had to be made within 30 days, they kept the news of his arrest under wraps for 17 long days, and it was made public only on 23 Feb, when it was almost imminent that the media might play hell if they could leak the news first. The causes of the delay as explained by the CBI are that (1) they had to verify the identity of Quattrocchi, and (2) they took time in translating documents between English and Spanish. Now are we all (except the Congressmen, of course) so gullible as to think that the Argentine authorities detained him without verifying his identity, and our clever by half CBI had to verify it? Translation takes a day at the most. So, the 17 long days were given away for Q to be freed on bail. Hats off to Sonia Gandhi, and ‘boo’ to Manmohan Singh and his government of sycophants.
The arrest of Octavio Quattrocchi in Argentina raised hopes in many minds that he would at last be taken to book. Some even said that God’s mill grinds slow, but sure. Sceptic as I am, I told them to wait and see.
We have seen that these self-seeking hypocrites who call themselves our ‘leaders’ would do everything to thwart the due process of law in order to save the boy-friend of the Empress of India, and her accessory in the Bofors loot . That Quattrocchi is invincible has been proved in the past; he was not arrested for seven long days, while he was in India, and was allowed to pass through the airport and flee the country (then why, pray, all this farce about his extradition?). Again his account in London that had been frozen in connection with the Bofors scandal was de-frozen by the government of India, and he quickly withdrew the money that was in that account before the Indian public could say ‘how’.
When the guy was arrested in Argentina on 6 Feb, our ‘patriotic’ leaders in Delhi had to find ways and means to unhook him. Knowing that an extradition request had to be made within 30 days, they kept the news of his arrest under wraps for 17 long days, and it was made public only on 23 Feb, when it was almost imminent that the media might play hell if they could leak the news first. The causes of the delay as explained by the CBI are that (1) they had to verify the identity of Quattrocchi, and (2) they took time in translating documents between English and Spanish. Now are we all (except the Congressmen, of course) so gullible as to think that the Argentine authorities detained him without verifying his identity, and our clever by half CBI had to verify it? Translation takes a day at the most. So, the 17 long days were given away for Q to be freed on bail. Hats off to Sonia Gandhi, and ‘boo’ to Manmohan Singh and his government of sycophants.