
Operation Zeppelin: Forensic financial firm Hindonburg Research, this is the firm that challenged the Adani group. Due to a report of this, the Adani group had a financial loss of Arabs. However, now the Adani Group not only made a strong comeback from that economic tragedy but also locked the shop of Nathan Anderson, owner of Hindonburg Research firm, forever. Hindenberg published a report in January 2023. In this, one of the largest groups in India- Adani group was described as “the biggest scam in corporate history”.
Loss of billions due to Hindonburg report
As soon as this report came, the result was that the company’s shares fell below the bends. Due to this, the market price of more than US $ 150 billion was gutted. For a moment, it seemed that Gautam Adani’s empire was in danger. The biggest public issue of the group was suddenly canceled.
However, this notion has not been intact for long, but the Adani Group resorted to public relations, legal and strategy to combat that loss and to get back the trust of investors. People who know about this entire case say that the return of the Adani group got more force after a secret operation, which is believed to have helped from an Israeli secret agency.
Israeli agency helped secret
Hindgberg report came exactly a week ago after Gautam Adani finalized the US $ 1.2 billion deal to achieve the Haifa port in Israel, in which the Adani Group was accused of manipulation in stock and fraud in accounting. Privateness of Haifa port in the 2020s was Israel’s largest and most ambitious infrastructure and financial project. However, initially 18 international dialects took interest in it initially. But only five were given the final approval to present the final proposal.
After a lot of severe investigation, the Gadot Masofim of Chemicals Limited and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited got the joint venture of the winner of the winter of the Hifa port of Israel. It had a majority stake of Adani firm. From its dialects to evaluations and approval, it took a long time of about 18 long months. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was also present at the signature ceremony on 31 January 2023.
According to the news agency PTI, as soon as Hindonberg’s report was in global headlines, a personal conversation took place in a simple room in the Haifa Port. According to sources, a top Israeli leader questioned Adani about the allegations, to which the Indian billionaire strongly responded. He described it as a sheer lie. The outgoing chairman of the port and a former high-ranking officer of Mossad, Eshel Armoni, is also believed to be present during this conversation.
Israel’s help to Adani Group
Hindonburg report was considered a deliberate attempt by some people of the Israeli establishment to weaken the Haifa Port Deal, which Tel Aviv has considered strategically important for the Indo-Middle East Eye Economic Corridor to retaliate the increasing Chinese effects in the region.
To bring the group back on track near the damage from Hindonburg report, Adani worked to bring back the story by reducing the loan-paying stocks, by cutting the promoter’s mortgaged shares, bringing both promoters and leading investors equity, and focusing on the main businesses of the group.
In the meantime, Operation Zepelin surfaced. PTI quoted sources as saying that this was a secret investigation to detect and explore the internal functioning of Hindonburg Research. The PTI source said that the New York Office of Hindonburg Research and its founder Nathan ‘Net’ Anderson, who is also a certified chartered financial analyst, was monitored.
Former intelligence internal sources soon started adding links. It included activists from lawyers, journalists and hedge funds to political personalities, who were allegedly associated with Chinese interests and others with power brokers of Washington.
Israeli agency’s secret mission
PTI sources said that detectives also infiltrated a complex in the suburban area of Okbruk Terrace, a small town of Illinois outside Chicago, which revealed encrypted communication among the alternative asset management firms and activists located in India, America, Europe, Canada and Australia.
According to sources, Adani was informed about this secret operation during his personal visit to Switzerland in January 2024. On this, Adani responded with no noise strategy. A team of lawyers and intelligence advisors was gathered to work with those working during monitoring in the US. Influential persons of the administration were informed on this issue.
Apart from this, in Ahmedabad, he created a high technology control form with cyber experts and analysts. His legal teams worked in international capitals. By October 2024, Zepelin Dosier had increased to 353 pages on the allied network against Adani. Later in the same year, alleged documents were shown to show relations between American agencies and media platforms that were promoting anti -Adani stories.
Adani’s mission operation against Hindonburg
At the end of November 2024, the US Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Gautam Adani and the leading officials of being part of the alleged bribery scheme to achieve renewable energy supply contracts in India. The Adani group dismissed all these allegations. Along with this, the Adani Group prepared to initiate legal action against Hindonburg Research and Nathan Anderson in the southern district of New York. A 7 -page legal draft prepared by a white shoe law firm was sent to Anderson’s office.
According to PTI sources, a meeting was proposed between Hindenberg officials and the legal mediators of Adani, but it was not clear whether the meeting was held in the textile building in 295 Fifth Avenue of Manhattan. This year i.e. in 2025, on January 15, the second anniversary of its report on Adani Group, Hindenberg Research, formally announced to close its operation.
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