Kidnapped for ransom, 26/11 survivor Gautam Adani faces his biggest challenge yet

Kidnapped for ransom, 26/11 survivor Gautam Adani faces his biggest challenge yet

Asia's wealthiest male as well as Adani Team creator Gautam Adani were abducted by bandits in 1998 for ransom money as well as when terrorists struck Mumbai nearly 11 years later on, he was amongst the hostages held at the seafront Taj Hotel. An university dropout with a propensity for making it through dilemmas as well as his organization acumen has pushed him to the rankings of India's wealthiest but he currently faces perhaps the biggest challenge of his job.

He went down from being the globe's third-richest individual to the 8th. Adani's 7 provided companies have actually lost about $65 billion in overall considering that Hindenburg Research study on January 24 raised concerns regarding the coal-to-ports team's high financial obligation degrees and also using overseas entities in tax havens, charges the group has actually rejected.

By the mid-1990s, his service successes began attracting attention, consisting of the unwanted kind. On January 1, 1998, Adani and also his associate Shantilal Patel were abducted at gunpoint after they left Karnavati Club in Ahmedabad in an auto.

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They were held purportedly by gangsters Fazlu Rehman and also Bhogilal Darji alias Mother (that were later acquitted for lack of evidence) for a reported $1.5-2 million ransom money. If the ransom money was paid, both were allow off a day later on yet it is not known.

On November 26, 2008, he was dining at Mumbai's legendary Taj Hotel with Dubai Port Chief Executive Officer Mohammed Sharaf. As he will leave after paying bills, a couple of associates asked for a 2nd round of conference over a cup of coffee. That's when terrorists struck, which killed 160.

Adani, who together with various other visitors was accompanied first to the hotel kitchen area and after that to the basement by the personnel, later on stated he would certainly have been caught in the attack had he made it to the departure after paying costs for the dinner.

Adani invested the evening in the cellar and afterwards in a hall prior to being rescued by commandos the following early morning. After landing at the Ahmedabad flight terminal in his personal airplane on November 27, Adani had actually claimed, "I saw death at a distance of just 15 feet."

Hindenburg Research study has rejected Adani Group's fee that its report was an attack on India, claiming a "scams" can not be obfuscated by nationalism or a puffed up response that disregarded action to essential allegations.

Talking about the 413-page reaction Adani Team launched late on Sunday evening in feedback to its report, Hindenburg said it thought India was a dynamic freedom and an arising superpower with an interesting future as well as it was Adani Group which was holding it back via "organized loot".

Hindenburg stood by its last week's report that said its two-year investigation found Adani Team "engaged in a brazen supply adjustment as well as accounting scams system throughout years".