[Marxistindia] Book Adani on Corruption Charges

[news from the cpi(m)]

November 21, 2024

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

Book Adani on Corruption Charges

 

The indictment filed in a United States court by the Department of Justice
against Gautam Adani and six others contain serious charges of Adani and his
nephew Sagar Adani being involved in paying bribes to Indian government
officials at the Centre and states level.  The indictment states that Rs.
2,029 crores was offered or promised to Indian government officials to get
state electricity distribution companies to execute power sale agreements
for the supply of solar power.  The case has come up in the United States as
the charge is that US investors were misled by the Adanis.  

 

The indictment further states that evidence was collected from Sagar Adani,
which provides specific details of the bribes offered and promised to
government officials.  "The Bribe Notes identified: (i) the state or region
for which government officials had been offered a bribe; (ii) the total
amount of the offered bribe; and (iii) the approximate amount of solar power
the state or region would agree to purchase in exchange for the bribe. In
most instances, the Bribe Notes also identified the per megawatt rate for
the total bribe amount offered, the abbreviated titles of the government
officials who would receive the bribes, and/or the allocation of the total
bribe amount among government officials within each state and region."

 

It is shameful that such large-scale bribery and suborning of government
officials by the Adanis had to be exposed not in India but in the United
States through their criminal justice system.  Gautam Adani and his business
empire have had the full protection of the Modi government to execute his
unlawful and criminal activities.  Prime Minister Modi himself had shielded
Adani from any enquiry or prosecution on the charges emanating from the
Hindenburg expose.  

 

The Modi government cannot hide behind any smokescreen now.  The Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) must be directed to immediately  file a case
based on the material provided by the prosecution in the United States.
Bribery of public servants comes under the Prevention of Corruption Act,
which is under the remit of the CBI. A full-fledged investigation by an
independent agency is required to unearth all other wrongdoings by the Adani
group of companies.  

 

 

 

(Muralidharan)

For CPI(M) Central Committee office

 

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