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Adani axes projects and spending in wake of Hindenburg rout

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Major fossil-fuel projects have a question mark hanging over them since Adani’s Hindenburg-driven credit crunch. Three months on from the bombshell Hindenburg report, the Adani Group’s fortunes are yet to turn. The Hindenburg allegations have created a lasting political scandal in India. Meanwhile, on the business side of things, the group faces a persistent debt crunch. Continuing media scrutiny has resulted in a flow of damaging revelations about the group’s businesses. Despite a halting recovery in the stock markets, the group’s net loss since the Hindenburg report is still over US $100 billion.

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Hindenburg fallout generates rare unity amongst Indian opposition parties

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A month after the release of the explosive Hindenburg report and the shock waves continue. The report has caused a firestorm in the Indian Parliament. The country’s Supreme Court has been deluged with cases arising from the Hindenburg allegations. Several major Adani projects have been cancelled or shelved as speculation mounts about the group’s financial health. Allegations swirl in the international press about the role of Vinod Adani, the older brother of Group founder, Gautam, in a network of Adani-invested entities registered in tax havens. Fears are now openly expressed in the world’s financial press that funds invested in ‘green’ Adani companies may have been used to back new coal projects.

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Digging Diamonds From Banks The Untold Story of Fugitive Diamantaire Jatin Mehta – 2

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Are the government and its agencies acting in a discriminatory manner so far as Jatin Mehta is concerned? Is there any weight to Congress’s allegations that he is getting preferential treatment on account of his links with the Adani family? Long before allegations of fraud levelled by banks against Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi made headlines in the media in India and the world, another diamantaire from Gujarat, Jatin Mehta, and his group of companies had caused a major loss to Indian and international banks and became the one of the largest wilful defaulters of loans.

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Digging Diamonds From Banks The Untold Story of Fugitive Diamantaire Jatin Mehta – I

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The fugitive billionaire Jatin Mehta has long evaded the grasp of Indian authorities, despite having been declared a wilful defaulter by a number of Indian banks. Is his connection to the Adani family responsible for the government slow-walking its efforts to repatriate and prosecute him? In 2018, the Congress party had alleged that the Narendra Modi government had turned a blind eye to Jatin Mehta’s alleged misdemeanours, allowing him to leave India and delaying the filing of cases against him.

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Hindenburg fallout blankets India’s Parliament, Supreme Court, stock market and projects

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Three months after the release of the explosive Hindenburg report on the Adani group, the issue continues to galvanise India’s political opposition. The recent session of Parliament was dominated by opposition calls for an investigation of the Hindenburg allegations by Parliament. Rahul Gandhi of the Congress party has effectively been elevated to the position of the leading Opposition politician following his repeated questioning of Prime Minister Modi about his close ties to the Adani Group. Gandhi’s disqualification from Parliament, a move apparently engineered by the ruling party, has accentuated his prominence.

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Is Bangladesh’s electricity contract with Adani legally void?

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Bangladesh is attempting to re-visit the deal it made with Adani for buying electricity from its Godda power plant. According to the Bangladesh power company buying the power, Adani is charging too high a price for its coal imports. In this exclusive analysis of the official contract between Adani and Bangladesh, AdaniWatch asks whether the agreement should be considered legally void due to Adani’s inclusion of costs that appear to be non-existent. The agreement as it currently stands will cost Bangladesh significantly more than it should. The cost of power from Godda will be three times more than that imported from other Indian power plants.

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Adani’s power grab sparks fears of privatisation

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A grab by the Adani Group for power-transmission licences in Mumbai and a satellite of new Delhi is part of a wider push for privatisation of the power-distribution sector, according to electricity unions. Industrial action in January 2023 prompted government officials to consider this concern. However, the ultimate decision-making authority lies with a regulatory body. Unions protesting about Adani’s move are concerned the company will ‘cherry pick’ its customers.

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