News Desk: In a startling revelation, the Swedish whistleblower, who had blown the lid off the Bofors case, has finally revealed his identity nearly 25 years after the scam rocked both India and Sweden.


In an interview appeared on the website hoot.org, former Swedish police Chief Sten Lindstrom said that he had leaked over 350 documents to Indian journalist Chitra Subramanian, who had broken the story first.  


Lindstrom also admitted that he was the journalist's secret informant, who operated under the pseudonym of Swedish Deep Throat. He had led the probe into the Bofors-India gun deal.


The illegal payoffs case had rocked the ties between India and Sweden in the late 1980s. Even former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had come under scanner.


Giving a clean chit to Rajiv Gandhi, the whistleblower said that there was no evidence to show that he had taken a bribe in the 15 billion dollar Bofors deal. However, he alleged that Gandhi watched the massive scam in India and Sweden and did nothing to protect the main accused Ottavio Quattrokey.


Lindstrom said, "Ardbo, (Bofors managing director), had written in his notes that the identity of N (Arun Nehru) becoming public was a minor concern but at no cost could the identity of Q (Quattrokey) be revealed because of his closeness to R (Rajiv Gandhi)".


Quattrochi was paid bribes by Swiss arms manufacturer Bofors and nobody in Sweden or Switzerland was allowed to interrogate him, he said.


The revelation could be a big relief for megastar Big B as Lindstrom further said that the case against Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, who was the then Congress MP, and his family was planted in a Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter by Indian investigators.

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