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Malaysia PM bans foreigners from $100bn property project

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Bloomberg Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said foreigners won’t be allowed to buy property at Country Garden Holdings Co.’s $100 billion project, or be granted visas to live there. The Forest City project near Singapore had targeted buyers from China for its mixed-residential development, as well as investors from Indonesia and Thailand. Malaysia’s My Second Home programme allows wealthy foreigners ...

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Billionaire Adani nears acquisition of GMR power plant

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Bloomberg Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s energy unit is nearing a deal to acquire a 1,370-megawatt thermal power plant backed by GMR Infrastructure Ltd., according to people with knowledge of the matter. Adani Power Ltd. will take over about 38 billion rupees ($543 million) of loans out of a total of 58 billion rupees that GMR Chhattisgarh Energy Ltd. owes, said ...

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Nirav Modi-linked US firms tied to India fraud

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Bloomberg Three bankrupt US companies with links to Indian billionaire Nirav Modi were “directly involved” in transactions related to the alleged multibillion-dollar international fraud for which Modi has been charged by Indian authorities, according to an investigation by the court-appointed examiner. The examiner, John J. Carney, found “substantial evidence” that senior officers and directors at Firestar Diamond Inc., A. Jaffe ...

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