Gautam Adani has made his fortune in a pair race with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. But now Gujarat’s construction giant, the world’s 17th-richest man, is accused of bribery in the billions.
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Indians from the state of Gujarat are often portrayed in Bollywood films as India’s globalists, traders and sycophants. There is something to the matter, because already 2,000 years ago gujjus sailed pearls and fine textiles to the west, a regular shopping frenzy in the Roman Empire.
“What we don’t pay for our women and luxury goods,” sighed the historian and military man, estimating that the eastern trade cost the empire 100 million sesterces a year.
Source: politiken.dk
