Adani bribery case: US SEC summons Gautam Adani, Sagar Adani
Live MintBENGALURU : The US Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a summons to Adani Group's founder and chairman, Gautam Adani, and his nephew and Adani Green Energy's executive director, Sagar Adani, thereby kickstarting legal proceedings in the alleged ₹2,000 crore bribery case. "We became aware of the ‘specificity’ of this two days ago," Adani Group chief financial officer Jugeshinder Singh wrote on X on Saturday morning, referring to the ongoing case filed by US authorities against three Adani Green Energy Ltd directors. For this reason, the DoJ opened a criminal investigation, while the SEC is pursuing a civil investigation against Gautam Adani, Sagar Adani, and Adani Green Energy's chief executive Vneet Jaain. "In 2021, two senior executives of Adani Green Energy—Gautam Adani, Adani Green’s founder and controlling shareholder, and Sagar Adani, Adani Green’s executive director —engaged in a bribery scheme involving the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars to obtain contracts that benefitted Adani Green, while, at the same time, falsely touting the company’s compliance with anti-bribery principles and laws in connection with a $750 million bond offering," the SEC said in its complaint filed in a court in New York on 20 November.