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 one of my reporters Chinenye Genevieve who sent in this photo with the caption ''Two most wanted female arm robbers alleged to specialize in entering people's shops,boutique,supermarkets,restaurant on the pretence to buy goods,food stuff or change cloths in broad day light but later end up robbing has been arrested by men of the Nigerian Police Force,Barracks Road Division,Akwa Ibom State.The notorious thieves who have been terrorizing pedestrians and residents of Uy,the Akwa Ibom Capital,using keke to operate was llast thursday apprehended with the help of people who ran after their keke after they had stolen from a boutique at No. 15 Ekpo Obot Street.Narrating her ordeal from the hand of the heartless woman,the Boutique sales girl,Imaobong Isaiah said: ''See me o-o-o! The two girls enter my shop on a pretence to buy from me but after picking all the costly female hand bags,shoes,men,gens,hand watches and clths worth forty-five thousand naira; instead of them to pay for what they have bought,they sent me to go and buy them drinks.So,I went to buy drinks for them at the nearby shop.As I returned,I met them making calls,and immediately their operational Keke man who was on a standby to pick them came and they went inside the Keke with all my cloths without paying.So,I tell them to give me my cloths,they refused.So,I started shouting,help! Thief! Thief! But the Keke man had already moved.As God would like it,luck ran out on them,the people around and people using car pursued them and caught them''.Questioning the two suspects,Grace Ekpo and Mfon Daniel from Itiam Iot Ebia,Uyo Local Government,they confessed to the crime; saying apart from their present robbery,they have been involving in all kinds of robbery in the State and begged the people not to kill them.''When we entered people shop,anything you sale we will pack the most costly ones; after which we will ask you to get us water or send you on an errand,that will make us run away with the goods without paying for it.We rob women in keke,we pick rechard card bags and anything that would fetch us quick money''.When men of the Police Force arrived the place,they took them away to the station along Barracks Road,Uyo.Confirming the arrest,the Police said the suspects are in their custody.
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