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Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday that he was unable to stand with US President Donald Trump to investigate Gautam Adani.
“Prime Minister Modi cannot stand despite repeated threats with President Trump, Gandhi said in a post on X. It is a danger that a danger is to expose financial links between Modi, AA and Russian oil deals.”
The politician added, “Modi’s hands are tied.
The remarks of the Indian National Congress (Ink) leader have cited US investigations into the alleged bribes paid by Adani to secure profitable government agreements.
In addition to the US investigation, Adani Group, along with its 13 offshore investors, has been facing an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) since the Hindu Research in 2023 accused the group of misusing the group’s tax shelters. The group has permanently denied something wrong.
The comments of the Russian oil deal by Gandhi have been raised against the backdrop of Russian oil purchase in New Delhi, which has become a point for the conflict between India and the United States.
President Trump, who is unhappy with India’s affairs with Russia, has threatened that the current 25 % of Indian goods will increase taxes.
Trump said a day ago, “They are fueling the war machine, and if they are going to do so, I will not be happy.”
The 62 -year -old Adani is the owner of Adani Adani Group who is interested in everything from power generation and Australian coal mines to cement, media, food, airport, airport terminals and Israeli ports.
Shares of Advani’s units increased Alka – Flaging Advani Enterprises increased by more than a thousand percent in five years – which collectively helped make the wealthy wealthy and funded further expansion.
The Ticone party offered Modi the use of a private company’s jet during the 2014 election campaign, which turned its Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into an office.
A few years ago, Adani executed the Broadcaster NDTV occupation, a television news service considered one of the few media outlets ready to criticize Modi.
Adani suffered fear of press freedom, but told the Financial Times that when the government is doing the right thing every day, journalists need to be called “courage”.
Bribery charges
In November 2024, the Adani Group was accused of paying more than $ 250 million to Indian government officials to secure more than $ 2 billion in profitable contracts.
It has accused Adani and seven other officials of lying about bribery to raise capital from international investors, including the United States.
In June of 2020, Indian billionaire Gautam Adani won it by a renewable energy company, called the largest solar development bid ever since: an 8 -gigwat power supply contract to a government power company.
But there was a problem. According to US officials, local power companies did not want to pay the prices that the state company was offering, and endangered the deal. In order to save the deal, Adani allegedly decided to bribe local officials so that they could be persuaded to buy electricity.
Hundreds of millions of dollars were allegedly bribed by local Indian officials that the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission was drawn because Advani’s companies are based in several transactions in the United States in several transactions that began in 2021.
The alleged scheme has been made from complaints from Adani and seven of his colleagues and two parallel civil SECs, comprising 54 pages of the federal prosecution, which cite widespread electronic messages between the alleged participants of the scheme.
In the early 2020s, the Solar Energy Corporation of India awarded Adani Green Energy and another company, Azor Power Global, a 12 -GW solar project contract, which is expected to earn billions of dollars for both companies, according to the crime.
It was a big step for Adani Green Energy, which was administered by Adani’s nephew Sagar Adani. According to the SEC complaint, by then, the company had earned only 50 million millions in its history and it had no profit yet.
But the move soon hit the road blocks. According to a think tank’s April 7, 2021 report, local state power distributions were reluctant to buy new solar energy, expecting a reduction in prices in the future.
According to the SEC, the CEO of Sagar Adani and Ezore discussed the delay at this time and according to the SEC, the encrypted messaging application indicated bribe on the WhatsApp.
When the CEO of Azure wrote on November 24, 2020, local power companies were “being encouraged,” Sagar Adhani allegedly responded, “UP […] But it is very difficult to cover the optics. In February 2021, Sagar Adani allegedly wrote to the CEO, “That’s all you know, we have doubled the privileges to emphasize these acceptances.”
The SEC did not name the CEO of Azor by the name of the defendant, but the Securities filing of Azor showed that CEO was Ranjit Gupta at the time.
Gupta was accused by the Justice Department of conspiracy to violate the bribery law. He did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
Earlier this year, representatives of Adani and his companies met with the Trump administration officials who wanted to reject criminal allegations in the investigation of the bribery, Bloomberg reported in May citing people familiar with the matter.
In June 2025, Advani denied any wrongdoing in response to US bribery allegations, told the shareholders that no one in the group had been charged under the US Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA).
“Despite all the noise, the facts are that no one in the Adani group has been accused of conspiring to violate the FCPA or obstruct justice,” Adani said at the company’s annual general meeting.
He said, “Even in the face of storms and relentless scrutiny, the Adani group never withdrawn.”
– with additional input from AFP
