INDIAN BILLIONAIRE GAUTAM ADANI CHARGED IN U. S. FOR ALLEGED BRIBERY, FRAUD. (PHOTO).
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani charged in US for alleged bribery, fraud Gautam Adani, the chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, whose business empire extends from ports and airports to renewable energy,has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, United States prosecutors have said. The authorities on Wednesday charged Adani and two other executives at Adani Green Energy, his nephew Sagar Adani and Vneet Jaain, with agreeing between 2020 and 2024 to pay more than $250m in bribes to Indian government officials to obtain solar energy supply contracts expected to yield $2bn in profits. Prosecutors said the renewable energy company also raised more than $3bn in loans and bonds during this period based on false and misleading statements. Shares of Adani Enterprises, the group's flagship firm, closed down 22% on Thursday. Other group firms also closed in the red. Adani Green Energy, which is the firm at the c
According to Marilyn Ogar,the Deputy Director,Public Relations of the Department of State Security Service {DSS} says ''A petition was received by this service about some activities at No.10 Bola Ajibola street,Ikeja Lagos.The petition alleged that those behind the activities were cloning INEC permanent voter cards,with the intention of hacking into INEC data base,corrupting and replacing them with their own data.Based on this information,the service placed the building under surveillance and having been convinced that some unwholesome activities were going on in the building,it undertook a raid of the premises.In the process some persons were arrested,three hard drives and 3 Ghana must go bags of hard copy documents were recovered and taken away for further investigation.It must be noted that the said location had no sign post indicating whether it was a private or government office''.One more photo below. 
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