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Gautam Adani accused of alleged bribery: Businessman Gautam Adani has been accused of scam and bribery in America. In the case filed in New York on Wednesday, he has been accused of paying a bribe of 250 million dollars (about Rs 20.75 billion) and hiding it in exchange for getting a contract for one of his companies in America. Not only this, it is claimed that Gautam Adani himself met an Indian government official to give bribe. In this case, seven people including Gautam Adani, his nephew Sagar Adani have been made accused.
How the bribery game is played:
According to the allegation, Gautam Adani met an Indian government official several times in America to plan to pay bribe. Not only this, there was also a conversation between the officer and the accused regarding bribery.
Sagar Adani kept a close eye on the safe delivery of bribes worth thousands of crores of rupees to government officials, using phones to track the entire incident.
– Vineet Jain kept the complete details of which officer would get how much money by taking a photo in his phone.
– Rupesh Aggarwal prepared a power point presentation on which officer will get the money and how. Then explained to other accused also.
Highlights of the indictment presented in the US court
– Between 2020 and 2024, Adani agreed to pay $250 million in bribes to officials to obtain solar power contracts from the Indian government. Then met an Indian officer. Sagar Adani and Vineet held a meeting for the plan.
Later, to recover bribe, Adani raised a fund of three billion dollars from American investors in the name of Adani Green Energy Limited Contract.
– Later also tried to stop the investigation of FBI and US Securities and Exchange Commission. Emails, messages and analytics related to the plan were deleted.
– In short, Adani had promised to pay a bribe of billions of rupees to Indian officials to get the contract in the solar energy scheme. Later he raised funds by lying to investors in America. The latter also tried to obstruct the investigation.