STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s foreign trade minister told the parliament’s special committee on the constitution that even after reading the full report of the national audit bureau on the
Bofors India howitzer deal one would not get a clear picture of what really happened. There was touching agreement on that point between the minister and the vice chairman of the committee, a representative of the conservative (moderates) party who seldom misses an opportunity to criticize the government.
A former undersecretary of state, who also appeared before the committee said that the “winding up costs” paid by Bofors could be a euphemism for commissions, but that he did not know whether the money had been paid to middlemen. For the rest, the foreign trade minister repeated the Swedish government by now familiar stand on various issues.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 20, 1990
