Adani indictment row: U.S. State Department declines comment on disruptions in Indian Parliament
The HinduThe U.S. State Department refused to comment on the disruptions in the Indian Parliament over the indictment of billionaire Gautam Adani in a U.S. court on charges of bribery. The U.S. authorities have indicted Gautam Adani and seven others including his nephew Sagar Adani, for being part of an alleged $265 million bribery scheme. Last week, a five-count criminal indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging Gautam Adani, Sagar Adani and Vneet Jaain, executives of an Indian renewable-energy company with conspiracies to commit securities and wire fraud and substantive securities fraud for their roles in a multi-billion-dollar scheme. It charges Cyril Cabanes, Saurabh Agarwal and Deepak Malhotra, former employees of a Canadian institutional investor, with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in connection with a bribery scheme also perpetrated by Gautam Adani, Sagar Adani and Jaain involving one of the world’s largest solar energy projects.