The country woke up to the news that Gautam Adani, chairman of the Adani Group, and seven executives are facing charges in the US for allegedly paying over $250 million in bribes to Indian officials for solar energy contracts. The SEC has filed civil complaints against Adani, his nephew Sagar Adani, and other executives, accusing them of misleading investors while raising over $3 billion to fund these contracts. The charges involve bribery related to contracts awarded by the Indian government for solar energy projects.
DMK Spokesperson, who is known by the moniker “Melting Point Saravanan”, an alleged advocate and member of the party, seems to be rejoicing that his party’s favourite punching bag, Gautam Adani, is back in the news. Saravanan shared a video of CNBC, which claimed that Adani and 7 other senior executives were indicted for giving bribes to Indian officials.
Saravanan wrote, “2200 crore corruption charges against the Adani Group, as preliminary evidence has been filed in the East New York Court of Justice in the US. Shame on the BJP! What are they going to say and justify it? Poor Adani. He has only a little money, whose wife would request him to approach with kindness?”
அதானி குழுமத்தின் மீது ௹2200 கோடி ஊழல் குற்றச்சாட்டு, பூர்வாங்க ஆதாரங்கள் இருப்பதால், அமெரிக்காவில் உள்ள கிழக்கு நியுயார்க் நீதி மன்றத்தில் குற்றச்சாட்டுகள் பதிவு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது.
பாவம் பாஜகவினர்! என்ன சொல்லி முட்டுக் கொடுக்க போகின்றனர்.
பாவம் அதானி அவரிடம் கொஞ்சப் பணம்… pic.twitter.com/FJGha5NmMN
— Saravanan Annadurai (@saravofcl) November 21, 2024
What Saravanan did not realize was that the chargesheet claimed that bribes were promised to Tamil Nadu state government between July 2021 and February 2022. It seemed like Saravanan had short-term memory loss and would have to remind himself that it was the DMK that was in power during this period mentioned in the chargesheet!
Close to ₹100 crore was paid to some top TN govt minister between July 2021 and Feb 2022 as per the US chargesheet. Saravanan, can you pls remind me who was ruling the state during that period? https://t.co/BmLTa6hLjN pic.twitter.com/3SwmnHm3NT
— Sai (@Saiarav) November 21, 2024
Point number 50 of the chargesheet states, “Following the promise of bribes to Indian government officials, in or about and between July 2021 and February 2022, electricity distribution companies for the states and regions of Odisha, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh entered into PSAs with SECI under the Manufacturing Linked Project. Andhra Pradesh’s electricity distribution companies entered into a PSA with SECI on or about December 1, 2021, pursuant to which the state agreed to purchase approximately seven gigawatts of solar power- by far the largest amount of any Indian state or region.”
It is noteworthy to remember that the DMK came to power in May 2021 in Tamil Nadu.
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