The party also released a list of 38 candidates for Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra besides 23 candidates for AP Assembly and six for Maharashtra Assembly polls. Veteran cricketer Kirti Azad (Darbhanga) and Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha (Hazaribagh) are the prominent names among candidates announced on Tuesday.The BJP has so far announced 322 names and was likely to issue another list of 50-odd names.

The attack on Sonia was led again by BJP's Campaign Committee member Arun Shourie, who cited bank accounts numbers of exclusively held by Quattrocchi and his wife, in which the kickback money was deposited.

The Bofors company deposited sevenmillion pounds in a Swiss bank account opened by AE Services on September 5, 1986 and 11 days later the entire money was transferred to account number 254.561.60W opened by Colbar Investments Ltd -- held by Quattrocchi and his wife, Maria -- in the Union Bank of Switzerland. Another $ 1,23,900 was deposited in this account on September 29 that year. The entire money was exactly three per cent of the amount India paid to Bofors as advance, Shourie claimed.

The Chamber of Accusation in its judgement on September 6, 1996 clearly stated that Quattrocchi was owner of Colbar Investments and to conceal the truth he had given a non-existent address of Delhi for this account.

Quattrocchi floated another company Wetelsen Overseas SA in Panama and his entire money from Colbar Investments's account was transferred to account number 488.320.60X opened again in Union Bank of Switzerland, Geneva on July 25, 1988. The new account too could be operated only by Quattrocchi and his wife, Shourie claimed.

In another roundof laundering on May 21, 1990 another $ 200,000 were transferred from Wetelsen's account into the account of Inter Investment Development Corporation in Channel Islands.

Shourie quoted the Swiss court verdict: ``Colbar Investment and Quattrocchi seem to have received an amount issuing from commissions paid by Bofors and one cannot therefore say that their appearance in the case, was the proceed of pure chance. On the own confessions of the appellants it appears that Quattrocchi had relations in India at the highest level...''

Shourie said a perusal of various dates related to the case make it out that whenever Quattrocchi faced an adverse judgement or Interpol alert, its political fallout was felt in India.