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Adani has denied wrongdoing, saying that Indian authorities assessed its coal shipments before releasing them from ports. India's Supreme Court is also overseeing the market regulator's probe of Hindenburg's allegations. If India's Supreme Court allows the agency's latest request, it would then need to seek an order from Singapore's Court of Appeal to release the material. The Singapore court declined requests from Reuters last month to inspect related case documents, saying in written responses that the files were sealed. The stance adopted by Adani's companies in Singapore "created impediments" and the investigation "remains stalled", the revenue agency told India's Supreme Court in 2021 filings.

Persons: Adani, Hindenburg, Gautam Adani, Narendra Modi's, Modi, Lucien Wong, Adani's, Arpan Chaturvedi, Aditya Kalra, Sudarshan Varadhan, David Crawshaw Organizations: Adani Group, Revenue Intelligence, Adani, Adani Enterprises, Reuters, India's, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Home Affairs, Hindenburg Research, Investigators, Singapore Attorney, Thomson Locations: India, DELHI, Singapore, Adani, Gujarat, Indonesia, SINGAPORE, Singapore's, Mumbai, New Delhi

The Dharavi slum, about three-quarters the size of New York's Central Park, featured in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning 2008 movie "Slumdog Millionaire". Only those who already lived in Dharavi before 2000, mostly ground-floor residents, will get free homes within the redevelopment. In interviews with Reuters, some Dharavi residents cited the billionaire's financial troubles as contributing to their concerns. Last month, a Mumbai court allowed SecLink to add Adani to its lawsuit, forcing the conglomerate to defend its position before judges. In early August, about 300 opposition supporters and residents gathered in Dharavi to object to Adani's involvement.

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☆ No specific concerns for Sports minister as Paris 2024 targeted by investigation, new searches
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

PARIS, June 23 (Reuters) - French sports minister Amelie Oudea Castera says she is not too concerned by the investigations into alleged corruption surrounding the Paris 2024 Olympics, which took a new turn as two top officials were targeted by police searches on Friday. A source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters that Paris 2024 director general Etienne Thobois and executive director of Games operations Edouard Donnelly were subject to searches. The source would not specify whether it was their homes that had been searched. On Tuesday, the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organising committee and those of its infrastructure partner were searched by police as part of investigations into alleged embezzlement of public funds and favouritism, prosecutors said. The national financial prosecutor's office (PNF) said the Paris 2024 headquarters were raided amid a preliminary investigation launched in 2017 into contracts made by the Summer Games' organising committee.

Persons: Amelie Oudea Castera, Etienne Thobois, Edouard Donnelly, Oudea Castera, Julien Pretot, Christian Radnedge Organizations: Reuters, Summer Games, Olympic, Paralympic, Corruption Agency, Sorbonne, Thomson Locations: Paris, SOLIDEO, French, Cour

☆ French police raid Paris 2024 organizing committee office, spokesman says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Joseph Ataman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Paris CNN —French police raided the offices of the Paris 2024 organizing committee in France’s capital Tuesday morning, a committee spokesperson confirmed to CNN. Paris 2024 spokersperson Jonathan Firpo told CNN that a “police search is currently underway at the headquarters of the Organising Committee.”“Paris 2024 is cooperating fully with the investigators to facilitate their investigations,” Firpo said. According to an internal email sent to committee employees seen by CNN affiliate BFMTV, French financial police are leading the search. “Several” sites were raided by police, including the Paris 2024 offices and the headquarters of SOLIDEO, the public body responsible for much of the construction and infrastructure around the Paris 2024 games, the financial prosecutor’s office said. This followed an inspection by the French anti-corruption agency, the financial prosecutor’s office said.

Persons: spokersperson Jonathan Firpo, ”, ” Firpo Organizations: Paris CNN —, CNN, Paris, BFMTV, French, Financial Prosecutor’s, Paralympic Games Locations: Paris, France’s, SOLIDEO, French

☆ Paris Olympic headquarters searched as part of corruption investigations
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Julien Pretot | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] The logo of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Games is seen on the Pulse building, the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee, as a police search is currently underway, in Saint-Denis near Paris, France, June 20, 2023. The national financial prosecutor's office (PNF) said the Paris 2024 headquarters were raided amid a preliminary investigation launched in 2017 into contracts made by the Summer Games' organising committee. "A search is currently under way at the headquarters of the Organising Committee," Paris 2024 said in a statement. "We are aware that there has been a search by police of the Paris 2024 headquarters today," an IOC spokesperson said. "We have been informed by Paris 2024 that they are cooperating fully with the authorities in this matter."

Persons: Denis, Stephanie Lecocq PARIS, Tony Estanguet, Dentsu, Julien Pretot, Karolos Grohmann, Alex Richardson, Alison Williams Organizations: Paralympics, REUTERS, Summer Games, Olympic, Paralympic, Corruption Agency, Paris, Dentsu, Tokyo, Tokyo Games, Thomson Locations: Saint, Paris, France, SOLIDEO, French, Saint Denis

☆ French Minister Dussopt says 'not exhausted, nor weakened' by favoritism charge
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

PARIS, June 3 (Reuters) - French Employment Minister Olivier Dussopt said on Saturday he was innocent following a charge of favouritism in the award of a water contract in 2009 and would defend himself against the charge, adding he was "not exhausted, nor weakened". "I expect to convince the court of my good faith and my innocence," Dussopt, who played a key role in President Emmanuel Macron's decision to push through unpopular pension reforms, told France Inter Radio. Dussopt will face a court hearing in November over the allegation, France's financial prosecutor said on Friday. An official at Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's office said on Friday Dussopt continued to have her backing. The allegation of favouritism relates to before Dussopt took up his current ministerial role and when he was a local mayor.

Persons: Olivier Dussopt, Dussopt, Emmanuel Macron's, Elisabeth Borne's, favouritism, Mimosa Spencer, David Holmes Organizations: French, France Inter Radio, Thomson

☆ Zamalek withdraw from Egyptian Super Cup in protest at EFA decisions
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

CAIRO, May 2 (Reuters) - Egyptian champions Zamalek said they have withdrawn from the Egyptian Super Cup match due to be played against Egypt Cup winners Al-Ahly in Abu Dhabi on Friday in protest at a string of decisions by the Egyptian Football Association (EFA). Kahraba has denied chanting anything offensive and Al-Ahly appealed the ban, which has been suspended until a local court meets on May 14 - thereby clearing the player to appear in the Super Cup. Zamalek is also angry that the EFA refused to register three of its new players in January citing overdue debts at the club, before the issue was resolved and the players were registered in February. "Zamalek board decided anonymously not to play the Egyptian Super Cup in UAE on May 5. Reporting by Osama Khairy; Additional reporting by Mohamed Yosri; Editing by Hugh LawsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ How Modi can grab India’s geopolitical “moment”
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Hugo Dixon | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

India is in a geopolitical sweet spot because of growing tension between the United States and China. The hard-nosed realpolitik view is that this doesn’t matter as India and the United States have a common threat. This matters for India’s economic future, as geopolitical considerations are increasingly driving global commerce. The United States is encouraging this process through what it calls “friendshoring”. Modi can do a lot to make the most of India’s geopolitical opportunity.

The law minister said in the upper house of the parliament in December that 165 high court judges were appointed last year against 331 vacancies. A bill passed by parliament to change the process was rejected by the Supreme Court in 2015. The dispute has exacerbated a shortage of high court judges and a backlog of cases. Several lawyers and retired judges told Reuters they believed the government was seeking to influence the judiciary, which would be unconstitutional. When asked about Naik's case, a senior law ministry official said the government's decisions about appointments are confidential.

☆ Exclusive: ECB union says staff losing faith in leadership over inflation, pay
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Francesco Canepa | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The responses underline that even central banks, whose primary responsibility is fighting inflation, are not immune to staff dissatisfaction with the sharply rising cost of living. Results of IPSO's survey, which largely focused on pay and remote-working arrangements but also included questions about trust in the board, were sent to ECB staff on Tuesday in an email, seen by Reuters. INFLATION SURGE, PAY BATTLESThe survey was the first by IPSO to ask about trust in top management since Christine Lagarde took over as ECB President in late 2019. The most recent Bank of England staff survey, also conducted in 2019, showed 64% of respondents had "trust and confidence in the Bank's leadership". "The ECB might be preaching lower real wages, but this is not our stance as your staff union," it wrote in its message to ECB employees.

☆ Exclusive: ECB staff losing faith in leadership as inflation bites, survey shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Francesco Canepa | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Results were sent to ECB staff on Tuesday in an email, seen by Reuters. An ECB spokesperson did not comment directly on IPSO's findings when asked but pointed to a separate staff survey, run by the ECB itself last year, showing that 83% of respondents were proud to work for the ECB and 72% would recommend it. The criticism by staff may sting because it relates to the core of the ECB's mission - wages and inflation. A similar IPSO survey of ECB staff, taken just before Lagarde's predecessor Mario Draghi stepped down, showed 54.5% of 735 respondents rated his presidency "very good" or "outstanding", with support for his policy measures even higher. "The ECB might be preaching lower real wages, but this is not our stance as your staff union," it wrote in its message to ECB employees.

☆ Allegro.eu's Polish unit fined $48 mln for violation of competition rules
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

GDANSK, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Poland's anti-monopoly office on Thursday fined the Polish unit of Luxembourg-based e-commerce group Allegro.eu (ALEP.WA) just over 210 million zlotys ($48 million), saying it had broken competition rules and violated its own terms and conditions. UOKiK also fined Allegro nearly 4 million zlotys on Thursday for terms violations. The company also said that 99% of sales on Allegro.pl were carried out by independent sellers and the remaining 1% through its own store. According to the investigation carried out by the watchdog, Allegro started favouring its own retail sales operations in May 2015. Shares in Allegro.eu retreated sharply from the day's highs following the news before climbing back to close up 2.5%.

For years, Argentine fans said that no matter how many Ballons d'Or and trophies Messi won with Barcelona, he could never match Maradona until he too lifted a World Cup. EMOTIONAL MESSIMany of the banners show Messi and Maradona together, some depicting the late No. And Messi himself has opened up emotionally to rally the team and nation after their shock defeat to Saudi Arabia. "For me, Messi has always felt and done his all for the national team, from his first game until now. "Messi has suffered from being a venerated star in Barcelona but often under attack here in Argentina."

☆ Pope sacks leadership of worldwide Catholic charity, names commissioner
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Philip Pullella | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

VATICAN CITY, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Tuesday fired the entire leadership of the Roman Catholic Church's worldwide charity arm following accusations of bullying and humiliation of employees, and appointed a commissioner to run it. The surprise move involved the executives of Caritas Internationalis (CI), a Vatican-based confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social services organisations working in more 200 countries. "Real deficiencies were noted in management and procedures, seriously prejudicing team spirit and staff morale," it said. The former staffer said employees had left jobs at the headquarters because of a climate of bullying, fear and "ritual humiliation". Apart from Tagle and one priest, all members of the CI executive were lay people.

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