Monday, January 16 2006 09:03 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

London: The High Court in London has ordered the defreezing of the two British bank accounts of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, an accused in Bofors case.

The order was issued on January 11, Crown Prosecution sources here said.

The high court order followed after the Crown Prosecution of Britain conveyed to the court after India's Additional Solicitor General B Dutta and lawyers acting on behalf of the Prosecution had a meeting here in December.

The two accounts, containing three million Euros and one million dollars, had been frozen in 2003 by the high court order.

The CBI had said in Delhi yesterday (Jan 14, 2006)that it would press on with its probe to establish whether the two bank accounts in London were in anyway connected with the Bofors payoff case pending against Quattrocchi.