• “It is not good for a great country like India to draw a blank each time they press charges against a foreign national just like they did in Malaysia, in London by freezing my money and now in Argentina. You should advice the CBI to drop the case, there is nothing left against me and Indian courts have let off everyone else involved in the Bofors case.”

• “I don’t know what the legal costs will be but it will be substantial and my lawyers are working on it. I cannot go on spending money like this just because I was caught while on vacation on absolutely fabricated charges. After being dragged in a political controversy for 21 years, it is high time I am left alone in my country...”

• “I have nothing to fear. India is like a second home to me. I have spent the best years of my life in India and legal luminaries everywhere know there is nothing left in the Bofors case. It’s Indian courts which have given rulings that Rajiv Gandhi was not involved. The Hinduja brothers have been let off by Indian courts. So why am I being chased across the globe?”