According to a recent report, Donald Trump Jr. has denied meeting with Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. This comes after media outlets reported that Adani faced charges from the DOJ. However, the agency dropped the charges after his alleged meeting with Donald Trump’s son.
Donald Trump Jr. and Gautam Adani met in India, claims report
A recent Bloomberg report suggests that charges against Gautam Adani were dropped after he met with Donald Trump Jr. However, a person close to Trump Jr has denied any involvement.
In 2024, the US Justice Department released a statement conveying that prosecutors charged Adani with federal fraud and bribery to secure investors in the United States. The statement asserted that the US Justice Department accused Adani, along with two other members of the Indian Energy Company, of committing ‘securities and wire fraud and substantive securities fraud’ to obtain multi-billion-dollar funds from investors and financial institutions in the country. The statement alleged that they also made false claims to make their scheme work.
But now, Bloomberg reports that Adani’s troubles have subsided after a private meeting with Trump Jr.
In the DOJ press release, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lisa H Miller had also alleged that Adani conspired to “pay over $250 million in bribes to Indian government officials.” Miller stated that the businessman also schemed to lie to officials to raise “billions of dollars.”
Adani and Trump Jr. met in Ahmedabad, India, last November. The details of the meeting are still under wraps. But a filing by prosecutors noted that the DOJ has again reviewed the Adani case and “decided, in its prosecutorial discretion, not to devote further resources to these criminal charges against individual defendants.”
The representative of Trump Jr. reportedly told Bloomberg that the American businessman had “zero to do” with the reversal of the decision regarding the charges levied against Adani.
