Khushboo Narayan: Adani firm trying to impede our probe, DRI tells Bombay HC


The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has told the Bombay High Court in a June 13 affidavit that Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) is trying to “impede” its probe against a few Adani Group firms by challenging the “well settled procedure of issuance of Letter Rogatory” (LR) in the court. 

An LR is a formal request from one country to another under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) seeking judicial assistance in accessing information on an offshore entity in connection with an ongoing probe. Last year, AEL moved the Bombay High Court seeking to quash all LRs issued by the agency in 2017 to countries including Singapore against Adani Group firms being probed for alleged overvaluation of Indonesian coal imports. The High Court had, in September 2018, given an interim stay to AEL. The DRI moved the Supreme Court as its probe came to a halt. The apex court has now directed the High Court to decide the case by the end of this month.

The DRI affidavit said that AEL moved the Bombay High Court to question the issuance of LRs only after a Singapore court allowed India’s request to access documents that allegedly contain “clinching evidence” against Adani Group’s “blatant” hike in prices of imported coal for “siphoning” money and “increasing” the cost of power sold to public in India... read more:
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/adani-firm-trying-to-impede-our-probe-dri-tells-bombay-high-court-5791596/

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