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tijR t1_j6gqor7 wrote

That scammer deserves to be in jail.

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Shigsy89 t1_j6grgit wrote

Him and musk should start an emotional support group.

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SpookyGeek t1_j6gt6r5 wrote

I don't know who he is but good. Nobody needs that much money.

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autotldr t1_j6gtxzh wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)


> Hindenburg homed in on several loans between Adani entities, including a US$253 million loan from a Mauritius-based shell company - which appears to be controlled by Guatam Adani's brother, Vinod Adani - to a private Adani-owned entity, which then lent US$138 million to Adani Enterprises, a publicly traded company.

> Money raised by Adani Green Energy or Adani Ports may "Just get transferred to Adani Power and Adani Enterprises, and then goes towards building more coal fired power plants or more coal mines," Buckley says.

> The Adani Group's plan to develop the world's largest coal mine in Australia provoked the Stop Adani campaign.


Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Adani^#1 Bank^#2 Group^#3 company^#4 Hindenburg^#5

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vampiretrades t1_j6gv7ju wrote

Gotta be hindenburgs biggest short report ever.. and will make bank... but they don't fear for their lives now?

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DA1725 t1_j6h1377 wrote

Good, hopefully its a fking wake up call for the blind RWs who blindly support anything BJP does and this scammer who is hiding behind them.

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A_random_zy t1_j6h4ky0 wrote

lol those idiots are saying it is an attack on India. All those have 5000 rupees to "let go of" invest in Adani. And Adani fucking over indigenous people for his coal mines is a myth.

All this coz Adani is Modi's sugar daddy...

Btw hi RW brigaders bring on the downvotes.

As an Indian I couldn't care less if Adani goes bankrupt.

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Big_Simple_1782 t1_j6h8abh wrote

This guy and his company are just a scam being underwritten by public money thanks to his best friend who is the prime minister of India.

He has no fear of any Indian agency where majority of his scams occur.

But when he goes down he’ll take a lot of middle class and poorer peoples life savings with him.

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JarKachYn t1_j6h8ak8 wrote

Stock market losses of $66 billion over three days...

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SokarRostau t1_j6hbtjk wrote

I'm confused. The comments and the title of the post refer to something that doesn't even seem to get mentioned in this article about Adani being a giant con.

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Lodumal-cum-boy t1_j6hcltr wrote

He has plenty of shell companies outside India to increase his stock prices. All his stocks are highly inflated by the debt taken from gov and pvt banks. He holds many ports, airports contracts, media houses in india, so if he goes down he can take many innocent lives together( though it wont matter him much as compare to regular stock market joe and business)

In short, running scam with gov involved( no proof, but it is very much clear how his projects are getting approvals)

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Hindsight_DJ t1_j6heo3i wrote

> following the publication of short seller Hindenburg Research’s explosive 32,000-word report

Oh the humanity…

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golden_sword_22 t1_j6hgnfg wrote

Most of funding he has raised till now has been via the bond market which probably includes subscription by various financial institutions like LIC but it's not completely public money as you are making it out to be.https://scroll.in/article/923201/from-2014-to-2019-how-the-adani-group-funded-its-expansion

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chintakoro t1_j6hi26c wrote

that’s what many are missing here. adani is a strategic asset for the ruling party. it will prop them up if they continue doing their bidding. and adani will keep pumping the party with money. it’s been a win win for them so far.

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phyrros t1_j6hmg6m wrote

yeah, and spaceX only exists because Musk thought that Russian aerospace engineers where disrespectful to him. The whole thing was a pet project out of spite and not vision.

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Sorry_Decision_2459 t1_j6hse63 wrote

So the fuck what? We’ve got bigger things to worry about in this world than some rich asshole losing a bunch of money

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fodeethal t1_j6htabd wrote

Lol if he (his company) can revolutionize space travel with a pet project... that's pretty damn good.

Seems like a vision with a massively successful follow through to me.

Can you Imagine if NASA still had to completely rely on Russia in this current geopolitical climate for space travel?

Edit: He may be a POS in ways and benefited off major public-funding support, but let's appreciate the nuance and reality of life.

SpaceX existing is critical for the USA. Unfortunately NASA couldn't do it alone thanks to their standard (lack of) funding levels.

Happy to be corrected if wrong.

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phyrros t1_j6huo4f wrote

>Lol if he (his company) can revolutionize space travel with a pet project... that's pretty damn good.

Absolutely - it is just not visionary. For somethign to be visionary i has to be novel 6 somewhat non-trivial . Musk literally just said "I will show it those aeronautic engineers!!" and then paid money for people to develop concepts.

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Nice and dandy, not visionary.

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PS: No,- spaceX existing isn't critical for the USA, it is symptomatic for the neo-liberal USA. Pushing development to private companies with hidden subventions is simply a suboptimal solution.

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JKKIDD231 t1_j6hvxac wrote

Plus Hindenburg Research made millions with their calculated report, which I believe to be true as its known that Adani has lots of debt on hand but they knew what the response would be in market so they shorted the Adani stocks worldwide before releasing the report and make huge bucks while at it.

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scottycakes t1_j6hw33h wrote

Saddest part is that he’ll be just fine. Not that anyone deserves to suffer but that amount of wealth is unfathomable.

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fodeethal t1_j6hwa7q wrote

I appreciate the rebuttal and I'm sorry for continuing a semantics debate... but....

Does it not require a vision to believe you can not only enter, but revolutionize an existing 'cutting edge' industry?

I guess it depends on how close other firms were to implementing or even considering vertical landing and recovery technology.

To my knowledge, SpaceX shifted the paradigm of space logistics. (Obviously not without help of established industry tech and experts)

In conclusion, I believe that to be at least somewhat visionary.

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captainktainer t1_j6hy2ld wrote

Yeah, they revealed their short positions as part of their data release, which is exactly what they should do. This is literally one of the reasons short sellers exist and why regulators are fine with reports like this - they profit off of research showing companies are overvalued, just as stock promoters profit off of releasing research showing positive trends for a company. The market will be healthier now that it's aware of Adani Group's fraud as a risk for future performance. It's not market manipulation in regulators' eyes and never will be.

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throwawayfree41 t1_j6hycql wrote

HOW DARE YOU...???

If not Adani then who ????!!!!!!

Who else is among India's businessmen ???? HUH ???

We now only have the likes of.......Mahindra, Tata, Ambani, Bajaj,Jindal, Poonawala, Nadar, Birla, Hinduja,Godrej, Yusuf Ali,Bhadresh Shah..................wait India has someone other than Adani......................ohhh............................well this is awkward now.......

https://www.forbes.com/india-billionaires/list/

Don't cry about Adani, he is not India and India is not Adani.

If he is innocent his business will survive, if he is guilty his business will not.

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phyrros t1_j6hzejb wrote

>I guess it depends on how close other firms were to implementing or even considering vertical landing and recovery technology.

Aside of i being done in the 50s by russians and NASA having a working prototype ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

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But I meant a completely different point: Do look at the acomplishments in the 50s/60s and you will see the actual inventors/engineers being lauded for their visionary ideas. And now look at the last 20 years and you will see the managers/CEOs being lauded for the visionary ideas of their engineers.

So:

>Does it not require a vision to believe you can not only enter, but revolutionize an existing 'cutting edge' industry?

If I would believe that Elon Musk did any part of development I could accept "visionary" (somehow..) but as it is Musk seems to have about nothing to do with the development of SpaceX except being a posterboy for money. And no, this isn't what I call visionary because kids since the 19th century dreamed of flying to Mars....

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Bourbon-neat- t1_j6i18ne wrote

It's crazy to me how people could get wrapped up in a countryman's fortune as some representative of their nation.

Like if Musk continues to justifiably hemorrhage money because his car company is (over)valued like a tech company that has no direct bearing on me or certainly not the image of the US.

What a weird concept

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misconfigbackspace t1_j6i3c1c wrote

That will stop a further loot of the country.

It's a sunk cost, let it go.

We take whatever remains and rebuild.

The earlier such people get out the better.

Hopefully these rats take the ship with them.

But that's not what is going to actually happen. India's misfortune is not ending any time soon.

Which of the 25-30 fugitives are back?

Forget the 15 lakhs and Swiss bank accounts from pre-2014/pre-2016, the amounts transferred after 2014 are not coming back, and in fact increasing.

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Midnight2012 t1_j6i41oc wrote

This is what driving incentives to uncover the truth. People won't do such extensive and expensive research on a company if their isn't room for profit. These arnt charities or government organizations.

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amolpi t1_j6i554o wrote

Adani is not India. All these fraudsters looting Indias hard earned money. They should go down

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mm_mk t1_j6i7wnz wrote

It's not stock manipulation. They reported their short position in the data. They did exactly what shorts are supposed to do from a market health perspective. They are supposed to profit because if they didn't, there would be no incentive to investigate bullshit companies

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johnp299 t1_j6ikx7g wrote

It's always the last place you look

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mtl_jim t1_j6iop85 wrote

I’m kinda tired hearing about how certain billionaires lost so many billions, and yet are still billionaires. Are we supposed to provide sympathy or pity or something?

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Bps33382 t1_j6iqylt wrote

Anyone can check that Adani companies are highly Overvalued --Some company PE was close to 400 but that news is already in the market... Adani has taken debt from bank but in last rwo year majority came through Bonds... SEBI had in passed raised Stock manipulation on Adani that time many adani companies lost 40-60% valuation but they came back in month or two...

Just today some firm from Saudi has said they will be investing 400 mn dollar in Adani .

Adani came with lot of baggage like ,high debt/high valuations, many old cases on wrong business activity and finally adani was raising Rs 20000 cr through India Biggest FPO,which hidenburg knows so they timed it right and made money... nothing which Hidenburg was saying is new or was not in the public domain...

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vampiretrades t1_j6l5g7k wrote

I fully agree with you, and im totally against sec investigating shorts and banning short positions etc. Etc. But just for argument sake... why is it not the same as frontloading? You're taking a position then telling people you love or hate the stock?

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mm_mk t1_j6l817g wrote

From investopedia: >There is some grey area here. For example, a professional short-seller may accumulate a short position and then publicize the reasons for shorting the stock. This seems perilously close to a short-seller's version of a pump-and-dump scheme, in which a speculator hypes (or bashes) an investment for personal gain.

>There is a distinction, however. The short-seller in this example reveals the personal financial stake at the time of the recommendation. And, the information conveyed by the short-seller reflects a genuine fact-based view of the outlook of the stock shorted rather than a falsehood intended to mislead.

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