Buenos Aires, June 18
Fresh from a legal success in the extradition case against him, Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi now intends to sue unnamed Indian political leaders for carrying out “political persecution” against him.

Living just outside the Argentinian capital after his arrest in Iguazu international airport in Misiones province, about 1,500 km from here, on an Interpol red corner notice on the basis of a CBI alert, on February 6, the 68-year-old maintains that the case against him is “political”.

However, Quattrocchi did not elaborate on who he would sue and where.

“I intend to take legal steps against some political leaders who have created this 20-year-old political persecution. The matter is now with my lawyers,” he said in an interview to PTI, more than a week after a provincial court here rejected India’s request for his extradition.

The court has given five days time till early this week for the prosecution to file an appeal against the order and has asked Quattrocchi to stay in Argentina till June 20.

Asked about CBI’s extradition attempts, Quattrocchi said he was “under no doubt that this is a political case.”— PTI