Billionaire Gautam Adani. File
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Billionaire Gautam Adani will file this week a sworn affidavit in a U.S. federal court stating whether he is aware of any promise, agreement or benefit linked to the U.S. government's decision to dismiss a criminal indictment against him.U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis directed Adani to file the affidavit by July 15 before ruling on the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the indictment with prejudice.The judge asked Mr. Adani to state whether he is aware of any promise, offer, agreement or benefit connected to the dismissal, or of any exchange made in return for the charges being dropped.Sources said Mr. Adani is likely to file the affidavit this week.The Adani group did not offer any comment on the issue, saying the matter is sub judice.The order of June followed a filing by Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice, R. Trent McCotter, who said he was the "final and sole decision-maker" behind the dismissal and denied media reports that the decision was linked to Adani Group's plans to invest about $10 billion in the United States."The current or former Department attorneys... have suggested that I sought dismissal of the securities charges at least in part because of some promise by those defendants to invest money in the United States. That is false," Mr. McCotter wrote.
