INDIAN BILLIONAIRE GAUTAM ADANI CHARGED IN U. S. FOR ALLEGED BRIBERY, FRAUD. (PHOTO).

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  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

COURT JAILS TWO INTERNET FRAUDSTERS IN LAGOS.{PHOTOS}.


   Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has convicted and sentenced two internet fraudsters, Oguntade Idowu and Oguntimehin Samuel to one year imprisonment each.
The convicts were arraigned by the Lagos Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, June 30, 2020 on different count charges before the court. While Idowu was arraigned on one-count charge bordering on possession of a car reasonably suspected to have been stolen, Samuel was arraigned on two-count charges bordering on possession of fraudulent documents.
The count-charge against Idowu read: “That you, Oguntade Idowu, sometime in 2019 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable court, had in your possession, Mercedes Benz C300, reasonably suspected to have been unlawfully obtained and which you do not give account to the satisfaction of court as to how you came about it and committed an offence contrary to Section 39 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”
He pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against him.
In view of his plea, prosecution counsel, I.A. Mohammed, reviewed the facts of the matter and prayed the court to convict him accordingly.
Delivering her judgment, Justice Dada found him guilty of the offence and sentenced him to one year imprisonment.
The Judge also fined him the sum of N500, 000.00( Five Hundred Thousand Naira) in lieu of the jail term and ordered him to forfeit the Mezcedes Benz C300 to the Federal Government.More photos below.
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