Under constant media chase, Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, grounded in Argentina on an Interpol red corner notice, has shifted from the Sheraton hotel in Buenos Aires and moved to an undisclosed place.

Quattrocchi, who the Central Bureau of Investigation wants for trial in the Bofors kickbacks case, checked out of the hotel with his wife Maria on Thursday night and his present whereabouts are unknown, hotel sources said.

Media persons, including some from Indian television channels, have been pursuing him in their bid to get interviews from Quattrocchi, who was holed up in Sheraton Buenos Aires and Convention Center ever since he was granted bail by an Argentine court on Feb 27 but ordered not to leave the country.

He was detained in Iguazo international airport in Misiones province on February 7 on the basis of an Interpol red corner notice. A two-member team of CBI officials is in Argentina to get him extradited to India.

The Argentine government has already cleared the papers submitted by New Delhi for his extradition to a court in El Dorado city in Misiones province.

Meanwhile, Quattrocchi's lawyer Alejandro Freeland expressed annoyance at the media 'harassing' his client and their methods of approaching him and the Italian businessman.

He said his client's 'arrest' in Argentina was politically motivated as he could find no rational arguments that will allow Quattrocchi to be 'pursued, acquitted and arrested again for allegations that are now 20 years old.'

"It has become clear that this a politically motivated case as there is no other explanation for the strange events that have led to Quattrocchi's arrest. The way that this case keeps coming back two-three times is absurd and shows that it is not about justice but about politics," he said.

The counsel was anxious to get hold of the papers filed by the CBI and to start preparing Quattrocchi's defence so that it may be over quickly. He was unsure as to how long this procedure would take, saying, "It could take a couple of months to a couple of years, as there is no certainty that it will be dealt with swiftly by the Argentine Supreme Court, if the decision in the upcoming hearings is challenged by either side."