Gautam Adani Devised Bribery Scheme To Make Indian Govt Entity Buy Solar Power From His Company: US Dept Of Justice
Live LawAccording to the charges filed by the United States Department of Justice in a U.S. court, Gautam Adani, along with others, orchestrated a million-dollar bribery scheme in the USA to bribe Indian government officials. Therefore, Gautam Adani, along with Adani company executives Sagar Adani & Vneet Jaain, and certain other officials of the US company, devised a scheme to bribe Indian government officials in exchange for SECI making state companies agree to purchase the power sold by SECI. As a result, in or about 2020, the defendants GAUTAM S. ADANI, SAGAR R. ADANI, VNEET S. JAAIN, RANJIT GUPTA and Co-Conspirator #2, among others, devised a scheme to offer, authorize, make and promise to make bribe payments to Indian government officials in exchange for the government officials causing state electricity distribution companies to enter into Power Sale Agreements with SECI, which would allow the Indian Energy Company's subsidiaries and the U.S. Issuer to secure PPAs with SECI," the US DoJ stated. “As alleged, the defendants orchestrated an elaborate scheme to bribe Indian government officials to secure contracts worth billions of dollars and Gautam S. Adani, Sagar R. Adani and Vneet S. Jaain lied about the bribery scheme as they sought to raise capital from U.S. and international investors,” stated United States Attorney Peace.