News Desk: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who was dragged into the controversial Bofors deal, felt relieved when the Sweden whistleblower gave him a clean chit in the illegal payoffs case.


Soon after the revelation by media, Jaya Bachchan told the reporters that the truth has been revealed in Bofors case but can’t undo damage.


Big B had expressed his relief for being exonerated in the Bofors scam late last night in his blog saying, "I speak from personal experience and personal exoneration. 25 years after the incident, I read today from one that pioneered accusation and investigation, of innocence. Of the fault that never lay before me. Of one that remained and shall perhaps remain a darkened spot, blemished beyond all recognition, but in admittance of wrong doing against me".


Expressing his agony, he wrote, "No one shall be able to understand or even remotely fathom, the hours and days and months and years of the anguish of petulant blame, that I had to go through. But will it really interest another? No it shall not".


In an interview appeared on hoot.org, the Sweden whistleblower Sten Lindstrom, who is the former Swedish police Chief, revealed that the then Congress MP Bachchan and his family were planted in a Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter by Indian investigators. Bachchan had filed a case against the newspaper in the UK court and won. Even Dagens Nyheter had apologised to Big B saying the story had come from Indian investigators.


The actor is now relieved and says, "Their mission was misguidance, connived to its maximum, for issues that never ever did be of any concern in the execution of their own selfish mercenary agenda. They won momentarily. But lost ultimately. Lost position and strength and power yes, but importantly their conscience. And today that counts the most!"


The controversial deal had rocked the ties between both India and Sweden in later 1980s. Twenty Five years after the incident, Lindstrom revealed his identity clarifying that there was no evidence to show that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had taken a bribe in the deal.


Lindstrom also gave clean chit to Bachchan saying he was planted in the scam. It is now clear that the superstar was not involved in the deal. However, the pathos he had gone through cannot be forgotten.


"Loss of one’s conscience would have to be the most defeating element in our lives. Somewhere we shall all fall victim to it. But, greatness lies with them that redeem it …. in time!!" the actor said in his blog.

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