Ottavio quattrocchi biography of michael

By the time he escaped from India in - as a reluctant government dragged its heels on attempting to detain him - Ottavio Quattrocchi had spent nearly three decades in the country.

It was home to him, no less so because all four of his children were born in the country.

Ottavio quattrocchi biography of michael

As he was scurried away from the country that he had taken for his own, though, it became clear that the feeling was not mutual.

The Italian businessman - who died in Milan following a heart attack at the age of 74 - had arrived in India at the age of 26 as a junior representative of oil and gas firm Eni, as well as its engineering arm, Snamprogetti.

Over the years, leveraging his Italian connection and getting introduced through a fellow businessman, Quattrocchi built a relationship with then Indian Airlines pilot Rajiv Gandhi and his wife, Sonia. This was no perfunctory friendship.

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