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News, The Morning Context

Adani’s ties with Adi group make convenient business sense

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Ostensibly competing suppliers of imported coal, the two business groups are joined at the hip and may actually be helping each other out. An investigation by The Morning Context lays out how the lines between client, supplier, investor, associate and proxy blur. The Adi group’s businesses range from coal and commodity trading to real estate development. Its founder, Utkarsh Shah, is described as a friend of Adani group chairman Gautam Adani for over 30 years.

Adani Watch, News

Judicial rulings stymie probe into Adani over-invoicing allegations

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Adani Group companies have been accused of over-invoicing coal and power equipment by an Indian government agency and by the Hindenburg report. Over-invoicing is a practice in which the prices of imported goods are jacked up by an intermediary owned by the buyer. The inflated price is passed on to consumers or is subsidised by government, with the buyer able to pocket the difference. A blizzard of litigation has occurred over these allegations in India’s courts. In early 2024, rulings by the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court appear to have shunted any effective investigation of these allegations off into the never-never.

Adani Watch, News

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.

Adani Watch, News

Is the Indian Government undermining its own agency’s pursuit of alleged over-invoicing by the Adani Group?

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An Indian government authority that investigates violations of customs law has alleged that three Adani Group companies have used intermediaries to artificially inflate the prices of imported coal-power goods. This practice, known as over-invoicing, enables companies to enrich a related third party and even to launder money, while passing on costs to consumers. The allegations against the Adani Group companies have bounced around inside the legal system for years, with little progress.

News, News Click

How Adani Power Rajasthan Gains ₹2,500 Crore At Consumers’ Expense

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Regulatory authorities have interpreted rules in ways that have resulted in mounting losses for public sector electricity distribution companies while users are paying higher tariffs. The Supreme Court granted Adani Power Rajasthan Limited rights to claim over ₹2,500 crore from three Rajasthan discoms by passing through tariff increases to electricity consumers, despite a 2017 judgment forbidding such compensation.

Economic and Political Weekly, News

Raising the ‘Bar’ for India’s Power Sector

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Two prominent infrastructure companies belonging to Adani Group and Tata Group had sought the assistance of electricity regulators to hike the rate at which they sold power to several state power utility and distribution companies. They claimed that compensatory tariffs to the tune of nearly ₹8,000 crore were due to them as they had to absorb an increase in the price of coal imported from Indonesia. But this was denied to them by the Supreme Court.

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