Ambani once led one of India’s most visible corporate empires, the Reliance ADA Group, spanning telecom, power, infrastructure and finance. For much of the early 2000s, his ventures symbolised post-liberalisation ambition. Over the past decade, and particularly in the past few years, the group has been under sustained financial and legal strain. What began as a crisis of debt and operational decline has spiralled into a complex tangle of fraud allegations, money-laundering probes and asset seizures.The Enf ...

(Bloomberg) -- Singapore’s High Court has stopped foreign liquidators from suing Standard Chartered Plc and BSI Bank Ltd. over transactions allegedly linked to the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd. “The outcome does leave the applicants without easy recourse against the respondents, in respect of apparently dubious transactions,” the city-state’s court said in a judgment last week.  A Standard Chartered spokesperson said the bank welcomed the court’s decision. Liquidators began ...

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