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
Twenty police officers of various ranks have been sanctioned for misconduct between November 2015 and March 2016.CSP Abayomi Shogunle,the officer in charge of the police Complaint Response Unit {CRU} disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria {NAN} in Abuja yesterday wednesday.Shogunle explained that the sanction followed complaints received from members of the public during the period under review.''In the report we released in the first 100 days an up till now,about 20 officers of different ranks have been sanctioned across the country.They have gone through the various disciplinary procedures in the force and it will be counterproductive if i start mentioning the names of such officers''.Shogunle said between January and March,the unit received and processed 1,054 complaints from across the 36 states and FCT.Giving the breakdown,Shogunle stated that Lagos state tops the complaint chart with 239 complaints representing 22.68 per cent of the total.He said FCT followed with 190 complaints representing 18.03 per cent,while Rivers trailed with 100 complaints or 9.49 per cent.Shogunle said the unit received only one complaint each from Ekiti,Sokoto,and Yobe states respectively,representing 0.09 per cent.He said 899 cases of the complaints received had been resolved following investigations,with 96 found to be false,while 69 were pending.Shogunle said that during the period under review,21 distress calls were received by the unit.He said that there was consistent decline in complaints from Ebonyi,Benue,Oyo,FCT,Zamfara,Ogun,Bayelsa,Niger,Ondo and Yobe states.Shogunle attributed the decline in complaints to sanctions meted out to erring personnel.He said the unit would make recommendation to the Inspector General of Police on steps to take to check misconduct among policemen.''We are still studying the reports and in the coming days we are going to make appropriate recommendations to the Inspector General of Police on how the situation can best be addressed.I can conveniently say that the CRU has significantly changed the way members of the public and police interact with each other''.He urged the public to report any misconduct by policemen through the unit.One more photo below. 
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