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Final set of Bofors papers coming by month-end

The final set of secret Swiss bank documents relating to the alleged Rs 640 million kickbacks in the Bofors gun deal is expected to be handed over to India by the month-end, official sources said today.

The sources, however, would not say whether any out-of-court settlement had been reached with the account holder who had filed an appeal with the Swiss federal court, challenging the transfer of the bank documents.

Swiss federal police vice-director Roudolf Wyss had told the media at the recent Interpol conference in New Delhi that efforts were being made to reach such a settlement.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has already sought government sanction to prosecute retired officials, questioned in the light of the first set of Swiss bank documents brought late last year.

After scrutinising the 500-odd page documents, the bureau had named five -- former Bofors agent Win Chadha, his late wife Kanta and son Harsh and controversial Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi and his wife Maria -- as beneficiaries of the kickbacks. The CBI has so far failed to get them arrested and extradited despite Interpol's red corner alerts.

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