U.S. Treasury, India's Adani Enterprises settle alleged Iran sanctions violations

Cnbc · May 18, 2026 · 143 words · By WATCH LIVE

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“The U.S. Department of Treasury on Monday said it had agreed to a $275 million settlement with India's Adani Enterprises Ltd over the company's potential civil liability for 32 apparent violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran.”

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The claim is directly confirmed by a web search result citing an official announcement from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regarding a $275,000,000 settlement with Adani Enterprises Limited.

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“Adani Enterprises had bought shipments of liquefied petroleum gas from a Dubai-based trader purporting to supply Omani and Iraqi gas that had actually originated from Iran, Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a statement.”

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While there is evidence of a Treasury settlement (Claim 0), the provided evidence for Claim 1 does not contain the specific details regarding the Dubai-based trader or the mislabeling of Omani/Iraqi gas. The search results provided are generic descriptions of LPG or unrelated news about Iran.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — India has a developing mixed economy with a notable public sector in strategic sectors. It is the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP) as…
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web search NEUTRAL — Adani Enterprises Limited is an Indian multinational publicly listed holding company and a part of Adani Group. It is headquartered in Ahmedabad and primarily involved in mining and trading of coal an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adani_Enterprises

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“The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission separately settled a civil lawsuit against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani over an alleged scheme to bribe Indian government officials, court records showed last week, although the move is subject to court approval.”

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Multiple independent news sources (AP and other web results) confirm that the U.S. government/SEC agreed to settle a civil lawsuit against Gautam Adani regarding an alleged bribery scheme to facilitate a solar project, subject to court approval.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Adani Group (Hindi: [əd̪aːniː], Gujarati: [əd̪aɳiː]) is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Ahmedabad. Founded by Gautam Adani in 1988 as a commodity trading business, the Group's b…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gautam Shantilal Adani (Gujarati: [ɡəʊt̪əm ʃãn̪t̪ilal əd̪aɳiː]) (born 24 June 1962) is an Indian billionaire businessman who is the founder and chairman of the Adani Group, a multinational conglomerat…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Indictment against Gautam Adani et al. is a 2024 federal indictment in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and seven top business ex…
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“The Justice Department is also close to dropping related criminal fraud charges against Adani, who has promised to invest $10 billion in the U.S. economy, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”

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Multiple independent sources, including Reuters and other news reports, state that the U.S. Justice Department is close to dropping criminal fraud charges against Gautam Adani following a promise to invest $10 billion in the U.S. economy.

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