Gautama Adani
Politics have intensified in the United States regarding the allegations against Gautam Adani. Even today there has been quite a stir in Parliament over this issue. Leaders of opposition parties continually demand in Parliament that the Adani case be investigated. Congress is continuously demanding Adani’s arrest. The Congress raised the question and said that amid such serious allegations against Adani, why has the Modi government and investigation agencies turned into a snake?
Congress spokesperson Supriya Srinet told a press conference that if these allegations had been leveled against any other person, institutions and agencies like ED, CBI, SEBI would have investigated these sensational revelations, but because of Adani, everyone is in trouble. . Forget about discussing it in Parliament, their names are not even recorded. The Congress spokesperson further said that Adani, surrounded on all sides, is safe only in India, because here, thanks to Narendra Modi, no one can do anything to him. Investigative agencies remain silent spectators, otherwise he should have already been arrested on the basis of these allegations.
Congress made this demand to Adani
Congress said that from this platform we demand that Adani, who is involved in embezzlement and bribery worth millions of rupees, be arrested. There should be a detailed debate on the allegations against Adani in the House. Our investigative agencies and institutions like SEBI should investigate these allegations impartially. The ruling BJP, government ministers and parliamentarians should stop blatantly defending Adani. The Congress said the Adani Group’s arguments will not erase the serious allegations made by the US agencies and the Justice Department there and it is not that the Indian agencies have not investigated based on the US Justice Department’s allegations.
Adani’s system gave false signals.
The Congress said that during the tenure of this Modi government, CBI had investigated Brazilian shipbuilding company Embraer in 2016 on the basis of allegations made by the US Department of Justice. During the tenure of this Modi government, in the year 2018, CBI had investigated American company Louis Berger on charges of giving bribes worth crores. The Congress said that this morning Adani’s system was disturbed and gave some false signals. This is nothing more than your frustration and your failed attempts to avoid serious accusations.
- A senior lawyer, who came to Adani’s defense wearing the legal attire of a lawyer, said early in the morning that the name of Adani or his nephew does not appear in counts 1 and 5 of the US court document. It says Count 1 is a case of violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), in which Adani is not named. They just cleverly forgot to mention that the US FCPA does not apply to any foreign national, so how could Adani’s name appear?
- But in that count is the name of Azure Power, which is an American company and is also a partner of Adani. There is no doubt that the US Department of Justice has presented evidence that incriminates Adani.
- It appears that misinformed people have not read the Grand Jury indictments, which clearly state that Gautam Adani, Sagar Adani and others devised a scheme to bribe, offer bribes and promise bribes in India. In exchange for the bribe, the Government of India will oblige. power companies to enter into power purchase agreements with central PSU SECI (Paragraph 47).
- It also says he paid bribes of approximately 2,029 million rupees (about $265 million) to Indian government officials to get the state’s power distribution companies to implement the PSAs and promised to pay more bribes (paragraph 49).
- Furthermore, accusations of corruption have been made at the highest level. Sagar Adani and Vineet Jain are also said to have unfairly influenced SECI’s 2.3 GW PPA allocation process (paragraph 70).
- Remember SECI stands for Solar Energy Corporation of India is a public sector undertaking under the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
Congress said that since the issuance of the order in the United States, the pain of Adani’s exploits is being heard around the world.
- French company Total Energy has banned any future investment in the Adani Group.
- Total Energy is one of the world’s 7 energy superpowers and has a 20% stake in Adani Green.
- The US agency is re-examining the $550 million loan for the Adani-backed Sri Lanka port project.
- Sri Lanka itself is reviewing the deal with Adani Power.
- Adani faces disputes and protests from workers at the Israeli port of Haifa.
- The Kenyan government canceled the Adani airport and energy deal.
- Bangladesh court orders probe into Adani electricity deal.
- There are already massive protests against Adani in Australia.
- Switzerland had frozen Rs 2,617 crore in various Swiss bank accounts as part of its money laundering and fraud investigation against Adani.
- The United States has already issued arrest warrants for fraud and bribery.
