Adani: Gautam Adani pulls back on grand ambitions after Hindenburg bombshell - Times of India
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MUMBAI: Two months on from its explosive report into Gautam Adani ’s acquisitive conglomerate, short seller Hindenburg Research has left the Indian billionaire’s empire chastened and reevaluating its ambitions. Hindenburg’s allegations of extensive, years-long corporate fraud at the Adani group have wiped out about $125 billion in market value since January, spurring the tycoon to rein in plans to expand into new sectors, according to people familiar with the company’s inner workings. The group, which racked up one of India’s heftiest debt loads to fund fresh areas of growth, is pulling back from petrochemicals and is unlikely to go ahead with a planned $4 billion greenfield coal-to-polyvinyl chloride project in Mundra, western India, said the people, asking not to be identified on what are internal discussions. It’s also dialing back on ambitions to dive further into aluminum, steel and road projects, said the people. Instead, Adani — who has been closely associated wit