CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
SPE/SIU (XII)
NEW DELHI
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1. PROGRESS REPORT NO. : 1
AND DATE. : 23.02.1993
2. CASE NO. AND DATE : RC.1/93-SIU(XII)
OF REGISTRATION : Dt.08.07.1993
3. NAME OF THE ACCUSED : M/s . Southern Arts,
Exporters of Indian Handicrafts
10-D, First East Main Road,
Shenoy Nagar,
Madras and Unknown Others.
4. OFFENCES : U/s 120-B IPC and Sec.25 (1)
r/w Sec.3(1) of Antiquities and
Art Treasures Act, 1972
5. NAME OF THE IO. : Shri Hari Kumar, Inspr/SIU.
6. NO. OF WITNESSES :
EXAMINED
That, M/s. Southern Arts, Exporters of Indian Handicrafts, 10-D, First
Main Road, Shenoy Nagar, Madras, exported 34 items from the port of
Madras to Mr. Guide Zanderige Via 24 Maggie 437126 Verona, Italy, in
connivance with the officials of Customs of Madras, Illegally against
the provisions of the Antiquities & Art Treasures Act, 1972. On
inspection of the aforesaid 34 items by Dr. C. Margbandhu, Director
(Exploration), ASI, New Delhi at Pisa, Italy at the instance of
Department of Culture, Ministry of Human Resources Development, New
Delhi, 19 items were found to be “Antiquity”. In view of above, the
instant case was registered against the Exporter (and unknown others).
9. DEVELOPMENTS:-
During the fortnight under review, the IO Submitt plan of Action in
the case. A copy of the same is enclosed herewith. Special Look-out
notices have also been sent to NCRB/New Delhi and to the Director
General of Police of Southern States along with the photocopies of
photographs of the items, which are lying presently at Pisa, Italy
with the Customs Authorities, requesting them to check their records
under their jurisdiction with a view to find out, if any report
regarding the theft of any the item, is reputed, to them. Interpol/CBI/
New Delhi has been requested to move to IP/Rome for the seizure of the
consignment, in question, lying with Customs authorities in Pisa,
Italy and restitution of the same to India thereafter. The matter has
also been reported to Secretary, Department of Culture, Ministry of
Human Resources & Development, Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi so that they
may inform to the Embassy of India at Rome, Italy, for necessary
direction to Customs Authorities in Pisa, Italy, for not releasing the
consignment to the Importer. The IO has proceeded to Madras in
connection with the investigation of this case and the progress shall
be reported to HO on his return.
10. CD (S) NO. & DATE (S) : C.D. No.1 dated .07.1993
ON WHICH PR BASED : C.D. No.1 dated .07.1993
C.D. No.1 dated .07.1993
C.D. No.1 dated .07.1993
11. PENDING ACTION : A detailed Plan of Action
Submitted by the IO, is
Enclosed herewith.
DETAILED PLAN OF ACTION SUBMITTED IN CASE RC.1/93-SIU(XII) FOR
PERUSAL.
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1. To take immediate steps for retrieval of the case property from
Italy by moving the Interpol as well as Indian Imbassy in Rome.
2. To send reference to Interpol for conducting part investigation in
Italy regarding the examination of the Importer.
3. To visit Madra:-
i. Collect the original shipping bills and other documents from the
Customs Madras and also examine the concerned appraiser who passed the
consignment.
ii. To examine the ASI officials in Madras to know whether the
consignment was referred to them by customs authorities and also to
know whether the exporters ever obtained the non-antiquity certificate
for the items they exported, and also examined the concerned officers.
iii. To examin concerned CHA in Madras who facilitated the shipment of
the consignment. Further to seize the copy of the concerned shipping
bill available with the CHA and also to examine the concerned persons,
procuring their, specimen handwriting and signature etc. to prove that
the shipping bill was prepared by them (For GEQD Reference).
iv. To interrogate the partners or the proprietors of the exporter
i.e. M/s. Southern Arts, Exporters of Indian
Handicrafts, 10-D Ist East Main Road, Shenoy Nagar, Madras to know the
facts and circumstances by which they could manage to export the
consignment consisting the antiquities by hoodwinking the authorities
and smuggling the items. Further information to be collected from the
exporters regarding the procurement of the antiquities, their supplier
etc. and also to elicit information regarding the conspiracy if any
with ASI or customs.
v. To collect information regarding the payments made by the Italian
customer for particular consignment and also to visit the concerned
bank and obtain the records pertaining to payment.
vi. To collect all other information which may crop up during the
investigation like the export licence or permit etc. of the exporter.
4. To make efforts to know whether the antiquities in this case are of
stolen items by sending Special Look Out Notices and also to other
sources like publishing the photograph of the seize antiquities in
major national newspapers.
5. Any other points as suggested by SP.
Submitted for perusal. 1. Ms.Sonia Gandhi may well turn out to be
India’s Fujimori, the Peruvian Leader of Japanese descent. It is now
known that Fujimori has been secretly maintaining and hiding his
Japanese citizenship while claiming to be a natural born Peruvian
national. The wrath of the people of Peru came to visit upon Fujimori
when his corrupt activities came to be unraveled, so he bolted back to
Japan with his loot intact and then revealed that he had been all
along a born Japanese citizen, and thus immune from extradition to
Peru. Ms. Sonia Gandhi has like Fujimori in Peru a long history of
committing fraud on the public. Ms. Sonia Gandhi shares Fujimori’s
mendacity as well. For, example, in the Lok Sabha Who’s Who, on page
290-91, Ms.Gandhi has claimed to have been educated in the Cambridge
University. This is utterly and completely false. Ms. Gandhi had
instead gone to the town of Cambridge to learn English in a
unrecognized teaching shop. Such falsehood is thus reflective of the
duplicitous mentality of Ms. Sonia Gandhi. Time is now near for her to
be exposed as India’s Fujimori.
2. Ms. Sonia Gandhi’s track record, hitherto unscrutinized, reveals an
incredible venality and culpability under criminal laws of the
country. She is therefore extremely vunerable to any hostile
government, and thus would seriously jeopardize the prospects of an
opposition coalition that included the Congress Party in an election
campaign against the incumbent in office. The track record of Ms.Sonia
Gandhi as a habitual law breaker are illustrated below.
A. In 1972, Ms.Sonia Gandhi took employment as
an insurance agent of Oriental Fire Insurance, a public sector firm.
As a foreigner as she was then, she committed a criminal offence by
taking such employment. Furthermore, she showed her business address
as the official residence of the then Prime Minister and her mother-in-
law, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, at 1, Safdarjung Road, New Delhi, which is an
offence. Besides these, she collected commissions on insurance policy
sold to Maruti and to individuals in the Prime Minister’s Office,
which is also an offence. These facts came to light in a Rajya Sabha
Question Hour in November 1974. The then Prime Minister
Mrs.Indira Gandhi,and mother-in-law later announced in the House that
Mrs.Sonia Gandhi had resigned her insurance agency, a clear admission
of culpability under law. The three offences listed above are not
subject to the statute of limitation, and thus the failure to
prosecute Ms.Sonia Gandhi then, is no bar to launching prosecution
now.
B. On January 25, 1973, Ms.Sonia Gandhi was appointed the Managing
Director of Maruti Technical Services Private Ltd.[MTSPL] in an
“extraordinary” meeting of two share holders who together held all the
shares, 20 shares each of Rs.10 per share. The two shareholders at the
meeting were Ms.Sonia Gandhi and Mr.Sanjay Gandhi. The MTSPL was
incorporated on November 16, 1970. On September 28, 1974, Ms.Sonia
Gandhi was made the MD of the Maruti Heavy Vehicles Private Ltd.
[MHVPL], which was incorporated on February 22, 1974 with 13
shareholders in which the Gandhis had controlling interest. The Maruti
car company and the heavy vehicles firm entered into a consultancy
contact for expert advice with MTSPL for which susstantial fees were
paid.
In 1978, the Commission of Inquiry headed by Supreme Court Judge
Mr.A.C.Gupta, appointed by the Janata Party government, submitted its
Report on the affairs of the Maruti companies. The Commission recorded
the depositions of S.Kumar, Registrar of companies, and A.Banerjee,
Income tax officer, Mr.Kumar held that “the allotment of shares of the
MTSPL and MHVPL to Ms.Sonia Gandhi was in contravention of Section
28(1) of FERA 1973 which prohibited foreigners from owning shares in
Indian companies, and hence was ab initio void in law. By Section 56,
Ms.Sonia Gandhi thus committed a criminal offence that limitation on
this offence even if FERA stands replaced by FEMA in 2000. Thus
Ms.Sonia Gandhi can be prosecuted even today. Furthermore, the Gupta
Commission recorded that Income Tax Officer, A. Banerjee had
disallowed the remuneration paid by MTSPL to Ms.Sonia Gandhi “because
she had no qualifications to be able to render any technical service
to the company.” Considering that Ms. Sonia Gandhi holds an
unrecognized “diploma” from a English Language teaching shop for
unemployed European girls in the city of Cambridge, England, that is
quite obvious. Hence a fraud was committed, for which Ms. Gandhi can
be prosecuted under Income Tax law as well.
C. The electoral rolls of the New Delhi Constituency were revised in
1980 with January of that year as the qualifying date. When the voter
list was published, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, then an Italian citizen,
illegally became a voter at serial number 388 of polling station
number 145 of that constituency. Ms. Gandhi applied to become an
Indian citizen only on April 7, 1983, and was granted citizenship with
lightening speed on the same day. But during the three years till the
beginning of 1983, Ms. Sonia Gandhi remained on the voter roll
committing offences punishable under Section 31 of the Representation
of Peoples Act 1950, of a maximum sentence of one year and fine. Ms.
Sonia Gandhi cannot say that she was not willfully committing this
grievous offence because to become a voter, one has to fill and sign
Form 6 prepared under the Electors Rules 1960 in which affirmation of
citizenship of India is essential. Hence Ms. Gandhi by this false
affirmation also committed offences under the Indian Penal Code,
particularly Sections 192 and 199, which carry a three year
punishment.
D. During the 1980s, Ms.Sonia Gandhi’s mother Mrs.Paola Maino, and
sister Anushka Vinci had developed business connections with Snam
Progetti’s resident in India, Mr.Ottavio Quattrocchi. The Influence
wielded by Rajiv Gandhi’s Italian in-laws enabled Quattrocchi to
corner government contracts such Thal Vaishet fertilizer project, as
well as to broker deals such as the Bofors 155mm gun sale to the
Indian Army. Affidavits filed in a Malaysian court and documents with
the CBI establish that Sonia’s sister Anushka and her husband (now ex)
Walter Vinci were beneficiaries from the receipts of Quattrocchi from
Bofors company. Quattrocchi has also declared that he is a close
friend of Ms.Sonia Gandhi, a claim not denied by her. Hence Ms.Sonia
Gandhi, her sister and mother are candidates for inclusion in the
Bofors bribery case FIR under Section 319 of the Cr.P.C., to be thus
investigated and prosecuted.
E. Revelations contained in the archives of the KGB became public, and
some of which were published in Pravda and Izvestia in 1992 following
the liquidation of the Soviet Union. Most of these Archives are now
kept in a library at Harvard University, USA. One letter in the
archives documents the regular payment of commission to Ms.Sonia
Gandhi and the Maino family in Italy, arranged by the KGB. One letter
[published in a Russian news daily Izvestia on June 27, 1992 in an
article by Ms.Yevgenia Albats of Moscow News] was written by the then
KGB chief, Viktor Chebrikov to the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union [CPSU]. The KGB chief reporting these
payments to the CPSU for ractification, stated that members of the
Rajiv Gandhi family had expressed profound gratitude for the help
being received by them through commercial deals of an organizations.
In a confidential message to the KGB, stated Chebrikov to the CPSU,
“they [the Mainos] informed that a major part of these resources was
used to support the party of Mr.Rajiv Gandhi”. Only July 3, 1992
Ms.Tatiana Samolis, the spokesperson of the KGB’s successor
organization, the Federal Intelligence service [FIS], in a press
briefing in Moscow [which was reported in the Hindu 4.7.92] confirmed
that indeed such a connection between the KGB and Mainos had existed
“in view of the ideological confrontation that prevailed in the world
at that time” In the 1989 elections for example the Mainos spent Rs.10
crores on select candidates of the Congress Party in the General
Elections, obviously to create cheerleaders for Ms.Sonia Gandhi for a
future contingency, Mr.Arjun Singh was one such recipient from the
Mainos. Ms.Sonia Gandhi, her mother and sister are thus guilty of
offences under IPC Sections 120B read with 171-C and 171-H, as well as
FERA and FCRA.
F. The Mainos have systematically plundered and exported the ancient
treasures of India, especially temple sculptures of Tamil Nadu,
Andhra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, Mughal paintings and precious gems
in Indian Museums, all protected and banned from export under the
Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972. The CBI had in 1993
registered cases on such illegal exports from a Chennai Suburb to an
identified person in Italy (see enclosed document). Alitalia and Air
India flights were used to send unchecked crates after after crates
misusing the SPG cover first to Italy for display in shops owned by
her family e.g.Etnica in Rivolta or Ganpati in Orbassano [see enclosed
photo and calling card], and after creating an ownership on paper,
getting the contraband auctioned by Sotheebys and Christies, the
London auctioneers. Fred Watson’s Sothebys-An Inside Story
[Random House, 1998] gives some clues on such a racket. There is in
the records of the Ministry of Human Resources enough materials in
Notes on file of Directors Generals of Archeological Survey of India
to suggest precious ancient paintings of the Mughal period were
removed and declared “stolen” or missing, but ended up in a house in
Golf Links, New Delhi which Ms.Sonia Gandhi had frequented. Even the
Festival of India was used as a ploy to smuggle out such treasures.
In arranging these delicate operations the Mainos took the help
Mr.Arjun Singh [when he was Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and later
Union Human Resources Development Minister], art expert Martand Singh,
a Pakistani couple Muneer and Farida Attaullah, London based Pakistani
fixer Salman Thassir a prince of Kuwait, and even the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which has been convicted by courts in
India for the assassination of Mr.Rajiv Gandhi Thus, Ms.Sonia Gandhi
and her Italian relatives are culpable for various offences under the
Antiquities and Art Treasures Act as well as under Sections 295, 378
and 410 of the IPC.
G. When Rajiv Gandhi married Sonia Gandhi on February 25, 1968, she
was poor. Her Father Stefano Maino had lost everything after his party
leader, Benito Mussolini, the II Duce of Fascist Italy, was overthrown
and killed. After World War II, Stefano became a brick layer, and
Sonia’s mother, Paola Predebon, a share cropper. Like many poor
Italian families, Sonia was dispatched to learn English in a teaching
shop in Cambridge town and thus land a job as an hostess or in similar
employment, a modest goal indeed. Her marriage to Rajiv Gandhi on
25.2.68 however changed all that. And because of the aforesaid illegal
activities, the Maino family became in just 25 years the richest
family of Italy with net worth of US $ 2.0 billion. The respected
Swiss magazine, Schweizer Illusttrierte, in its November 1991 issue,
reported that the Mainos had in 1991 about $2.7 billion. But over the
1990s decade, the Mainos appear to have lost some of the money due to
reckless investments, collapse of the Barings Bank, and ostentatious
spending. They are still worth about US $2.0 billion today.
H. Ms.Sonia Gandhi has also fully utilized the martyrdom of her
husband Rajiv Gandhi to advance her political career as well as to
take control of the Nehru family’s monetary inheritance. The Rajiv
Gandhi Foundation was set up under her chairmanship and Rs.200 crores
collected during Narasimha Rao’s tenure as PM, for use in
education and public affairs. Yet an analysis of the accounts of the
Foundation show that only 3% of the income is being used for the
stated objectives while 97% is deployed for other goals including for
private travel of Ms.Gandhi and her chosen ones. This is a violation
of the Trust Act and thus Ms.Gandhi and other trustees can be
proceeded under Section 92 of the CPC. There is already a PIL in the
Delhi High Court in this matter.
3. Circumstantial evidence is also fast accumulating that makes it now
imperative for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe
whether the mother (Ms.Paola Maino) and sister (Ms.Anushka Vinci) of
Ms.Sonia Gandhi, have had a long term continuing association since
1984 with the terrorist organization, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE), The Supreme Court had delivered on May 12, 1999 a
stinging judgement that held the LTTE responsible for the
assassination of India’s former Prime Minister Mr.Rajiv Gandhi. The
Government had set up a Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (MDMA) in
August 1998, led by the CBI, to probe leads such as that have now
surfaced regarding the Maino-LTTE links.
4. The Circumstantial evidence of these links include Sonia Gandhi’s
plea for commuting the death penalty for her husband’s killers; in
providing one acre of land near the Indira Gandhi International
Airport, Delhi, for housing the Periyar Centre for the pro-LTTE and
secessionist Dravida Kazhagam (DK) which had been indicted in Rajiv
Gandhi’s assassination by the Jain Commission (Part III, Vol.IV,
Chapter VII, Pages 161-73, of the Final Report) and whose seven key
members have been sentenced along with nineteen others of the LTTE by
the Supreme Court, for participating in the assassination conspiracy.
There are several other examples of Ms.Sonia Gandhi going inexplicably
soft on the LTTE, including remaining silent on
the failure of the government to extradite the LTTE Supremo
Prabhakaran.
5. The CBI-led Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (MDMA) set up
after the Jain Commission Final Report, should therefore send
interrogatories to the Maino family in Italy about all this, and
investigate the extent of their connections with LTTE.
6. Ms.Sonia Gandhi’s family in Italy constitutes a major national
security risk for India, but paradoxically they enjoy the cover of the
Indian state for their nefarious activities. The RAW, India’s foreign
intelligence agency has reports of this national security risk. While
in service (during Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure as PM), the Additional
Director of RAW, B.Raman had in a report stated:
“Ms.Sonia Gandhi’s umbilical cord is strongly tied to Italy. Her close
relatives are Italian citizens living in Italy. India has important
national security interest in Italy because of its arms, nuclear and
technology supply relationships with Pakistan and China.”
Raman concluded that no source in Italy or in EU would cooperate with
Indian Intelligence on this issue since they would fear that one day
perhaps these sources may fall into Italian hands. After retirement
from RAW, Raman even published these views in Statesman (May 16, 1999)
in an article under his own name.
Italy, incidentally, is flouting US sanctions and providing avionics
to the Sino-Pakistan Joint project to manufacture the F-1 Chinese
design plane update, which is to be a successor to the US F-16 super
fighter jets. Indian Intelligence is busy trying to build sources in
Italy to track details of this collaboration.
7. For all these information I have written to Ms.Vasundara Raje,
Minister in charge of Personnel (i.e.,CBI) to initiate a CBI inquiry.
On all the above, if on no action is initiated, I will have no other
option but to move the courts myself to set the law into
motion.
We, The People Of India
Appeal to the Nationalists Straight forward Citizen
Strive to Protect The Dignity of our Nation
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