Gautam Adani - Indian billionaire escaped the "scythe of death" 2 times, causing shock

Besides the title of Asia's second-richest billionaire with a huge fortune, Gautam Adani has experienced two life-threatening situations: a kidnapping for ransom and a terrorist attack in a hotel. Whenever mentioning this event, people often joke that "Death fell asleep" so Gautam Adani was ignored.

Infrastructure king of India

Mr. Adani started his career as a commodity trader in the late 1980s. He later turned his business around and gradually emerged as India's "infrastructure king", operating in a wide range of businesses. sectors, ranging from mines, ports and power plants to airports, data centers and defense. These are all areas that Prime Minister Narendra Modi considers vital to meeting India's economic goals.

Since changing direction, Mr. Adani's career has soared "like a kite in the wind". In less than two years, Mr. Adani has gained control of seven airports and nearly a quarter of India's air traffic. Adani Enterprises signed an agreement last month with EdgeConneX to develop and operate data centers across India.

Along with that, he also revealed a plan to increase the capacity of his renewable energy businesses nearly eight times by 2025. Renewable energy is a lucrative sector in the world. The Indian Government is moving towards ambitious climate targets.

In the last year, when the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic caused businesses around the world to struggle, his group's 6 listed subsidiaries did very well, increasing a total of $79 billion in the past year. Market value. This is also the best year in the history of these companies. Big names such as French oil giants Total SE and Warburg Pincus LLC have invested mountains of money in Adani's companies.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, in the first three months of the year, Adani's total wealth increased by $16.2 billion, making him the person with the biggest increase in wealth since the beginning of the year until now. that point. During this time, the assets of the two richest people in the world, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, fluctuated greatly. While Mr. Musk's fortune increased by $ 10.3 billion, Mr. Bezos' pocket decreased by $ 7.59 billion.

As of May, Mr. Adani's total net worth has increased to 66.5 billion USD, surpassing Chinese billionaire Zhong Shanshan (who used to be the richest person in Asia) to become the second richest person. Asia. Earlier this year, while Mr. Adani's fortune increased by $32.7 billion, Zhong's pocketbook fell to just $63.6 billion. With such a fortune, he is on the list of the 20 richest people on the planet.

Mr. Adani's momentum lasted until mid-June, causing him to chase close to the richest man in Asia when he suddenly ran into trouble. The Economic Times then reported that India's national equity depository had frozen the accounts of three Mauritius-based funds because it did not have enough information about the owners. The majority of shares in these funds are shares of Mr. Adani's companies.

Although Mr. Adani has denied the above information, calling it a "blatant mistake" and that it was "published to deliberately mislead the investment community", investors are concerned about transparency. Bach hastily withdrew, causing the billionaire's fortune to "evaporate" to $ 13.2 billion in just a few days, to $ 63.5 billion. However, his position in the ranking of Asia's richest people remains unaffected.

Adani gained international attention when he won a contract to exploit a coal project in Australia in 2010. Recently, he also won a contract to develop a port in neighboring Sri Lanka.

"Mr. Adani is politically savvy and invests in most sensible, long-standing infrastructure projects. As long as India is the only one," said Tim Buckley, an expert at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. sustained strong growth, the group is likely to prosper under his leadership and see global investor interest soar."

However, Adani's success has also been controversial, with some suggesting that Adani's success is largely due to his tendency to align his investments with key goals. Prime Minister Modi's book.

These comments partly stem from the fact that Prime Minister Modi is Mr. Adani's compatriot. Both are from the western state of Gujarat. About two decades ago, Mr. Adani publicly supported Mr. Modi when a crisis threatened to end the rising politician's career.

Very rare "sleeping death" times

Speaking of Adani, along with wealth, many people also remember the "missing deaths" that he experienced. In it, in 1998, 10 years after Adani founded the Adani Group and long before being recognized as the second richest person in Asia, the name Gautam Adani attracted the attention of 2 subjects. gangster" are Fazl-ur-Rehman and Bhogilal Darji.

As planned, Mr. Adani and his friend Shantilal Patel were leaving the Karnavati Club in Ahmedabad, India in the same car when a group of motorcyclists stopped and pointed a gun at them to control. They asked Adani to stop the car, before kidnapping both of them and putting them in a truck.

Since Adani is a private person, until now it is not clear where Adani and Patel were taken after the kidnapping and what happened to them during that time. In the end, however, both were released. The price for their freedom is not cheap, the kidnappers are said to have demanded about $2 million from Adani's family before the billionaire was released. Adani in an interview confirmed the kidnapping was one of two or three "unfortunate incidents" that happened in his life.

In addition to the above incident, Adani also had another "souling" experience that occurred on November 26, 2008, when he was having dinner at the famous Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai with Dubai Ports CEO Mohammed Sharaf. . At this moment, the hotel is attacked by 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists.

Since their dining table was high up, Adani quickly saw the terrorists moving in the direction of the swimming pool aisle. A quick-witted hotel employee helped Adani and other guests run down to the basement before moving upstairs.

They spent the night hiding there. "More than 100 of us took shelter in the basement. Everyone was praying. Some people hid under the sofa, while others were looking for similar hiding places. I sat on a sofa, told them. that we need to put our faith in God," Adani recounted.

Finally, Adani and the other guests were also rescued by security personnel at 8:45 a.m. the next morning. They were taken from the scene in a police van. When Adani's jet landed at Ahmedabad airport later that day, he breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm only four meters away from death."

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