The former chief minister of India's Andhra Pradesh state refuted on Thursday bribery allegations and any involvement by the Adani Group in the state government's purchase of solar power while he was in power.

“Foreign Official #1” is how the indictment document by the United States identifies a high-ranking official in Andhra Pradesh whom Gautam Adani is claimed to have met personally in August 2021 to allegedly offer bribes to get solar contracts. The indictment document does not reveal the official’s name.

India’s Andhra Pradesh state is likely to suspend a power purchase deal linked to Adani Group due to the US indictment of the group’s billionaire founder Gautam Adani over an alleged bribery scheme, two state government sources said.

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Congress and other opposition parties accuse the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of protecting billionaire Gautam Adani.

The power purchase agreement was between Andhra Pradesh government discoms and the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) – two government agencies. No others, including industrialist Gautam Adani or the Adani Group,

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