Indian billionaire Gautam Adani faces fraud claims

• Indian billionaire Gautam Adani lost more than $20 billion (£16 billion) on Friday amid fraud claims.
• Investors withdrew from his companies for a second day.
• The Adani Group has brushed off the allegations as malicious.

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani lost more than $20 billion (£16 billion) on Friday as investors withdrew from his companies for a second day due to fraud claims made by a US investment firm.

The Adani Group has brushed off the allegations as malicious, but the outrage has not subsided as a result.

The largest opposition party in India has called for an investigation.

The market value of the firm’s publicly traded companies has decreased by nearly $50 billion.

Adani Enterprises, the company’s flagship, saw a nearly 20% decline in share price on Friday, and other publicly traded companies in the group experienced even greater declines. As a result, trading in Mumbai was automatically halted.

While maintaining his estimated net worth of more than $96 billion, Mr. Adani has fallen from the third richest man in the world to seventh on Forbes’ rich list.

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