Friday, November 22, 2019

Reference :- Peta Credlin makes a breathtakingly untrue statement , and keeps talking .

Reference :-   Peta Credlin must have been ad libbing  when she said that unlike Westpac , Adani has committed no crime other than trying to help the poor of India get electricity . How did she get that idea ?

That was a real whopper Peta .  Since you mustn't have had time to do your homework on Adani , I enclose herewith a list of  " legal difficulties "  that Adani has had to confront.  It is by no means complete , but it suffices to paint a certain picture .

-  An Adani coalship sank off the coast of Mumbai  . Adani didn't do the cleanup.
- Adani poisoned a river in Zambia that people needed to live , and forgot to tell us .
- They are accused of using child labor , underpaying workers , and causing avoidable worker deaths
-  Half of Adani subsidiaries use accounts in the Cayman Islands , a known tax haven .
- They have been implicated in bribing customs officials and the police
- They have been accused of using bribes in their dealings with environmental agencies
- They have been accused of abusing the market to overcharge their customers .
- They were  embroiled in a scam  involving the illegal export of 7.7 million tons of ore .
- 6  Adani group companies are under investigation for lying about coal quality .
- They are under investigation for a one billion dollar fraud which exaggerated the cost of equipment
  Is that enough for you Peta ?
  No ?
 - In 2104 they were found guilty of overcharging and ordered to pay out 4.8 million
-  Fairfax Media found they had kept employees in conditions so bad some came down with cholera
-  They committed fraud that  cheated shareholders of 298 million dollars
-  They breached their license at Abbott point , resulting in  massive pollution and a fine .
-  Leaked emails  indicate they have been doing weapons deals in South Africa.
-  They were repaid 98 million in tax payers money from South Africa for duty they didn't pay .
 Is that enough now ?   You really should be confident of your facts before ad libbing .
And although the lawyers are still squabbling over many of these allegations , some have been settled , not in Adani's favour  .
  My son, Ken junior , is quite amazed by Adani's range of business activities .  He reckons the show they run reads like a short story by Damon Runyon .   His favorite quote of Runyon's is this .
 " He who tooteth not his own horn , the same shall not be tooted " .    If you could tell me what that means , I would be most grateful .  I won't ask the lad , or he will think me stupid .


Your comrade , Ken

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