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Indian politician and attorney Arun Jaitley says "First Mrs. Sonia Gandhi while releasing the Congress manifesto and asked the media in reply to question to produce evidence against Mr. Quattrocchi." The Bofors scam was one of India’s biggest political scandals that happened between India and Sweden in 1980s and 1990s. It majorly involved politicians from the Congress party, primarily implicating the then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi and several people from the Swedish government. These people were accused of receiving kickbacks from a bank called Bofors AB, which is majorly financed by the Wallenberg family's Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. It was done to win a bid to supply India's 155 mm field howitzer, a short gun for firing shells on high trajectories at low velocities. It is considere