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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Simon Goodley in London

Modi-linked Adani family secretly invested in own shares, documents suggest

Gautam Adani speaking at a ceremony after the Adani Group bought Haifa Port, in Israel, in January.
Gautam Adani speaking at a ceremony after the Adani Group bought Haifa Port, in Israel, in January. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

A billionaire Indian family with close ties to the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, secretly invested hundreds of millions of dollars into the Indian stock market, buying its own shares, newly disclosed documents suggest.

According to offshore financial records seen by the Guardian, associates of the Adani family may have spent years discreetly acquiring stock in the Adani Group’s own companies during its meteoric rise to become one of India’s largest and most powerful businesses.

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