G20 slogan is ‘One Earth…’ but PM believes in ‘One Man, One Govt, One Business Group’: Congress swipe over Adani issue

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Modi seems to actually believe in "One Man, One Government, One Business Group". Issuing a statement, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said as the 2023 G20 Summit begins in Delhi, it is worth recalling PM Modi's many exhortations at previous meetings of the grouping for the international community to crack down on corruption and money laundering.

At the 2014 Brisbane G20 meeting, the prime minister called for global cooperation "to eliminate safe havens for economic offenders", to "track down and unconditionally extradite money launderers" and to "break down the web of complex international regulations and excessive banking secrecy that hide the corrupt and their deeds", the Congress leader said. At the 2018 Buenos Aires G20 summit, the PM presented a nine-point agenda "for action against fugitive economic offences and asset recovery", Ramesh said.

“The PM's brazenness would be laughable if his complicity in high-level corruption and economic offences were not so serious." "The PM has not simply facilitated the creation of Modi-made Monopolies (3M) for his close friends, the Adanis, in critical sectors like ports, airports, power and roads using all the tools at his disposal, he has systematically blocked all investigations into Adani's wrongdoing by agencies as varied as SEBI, CBI, ED, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and the Serious Fraud Investigation Office...," he charged. The party further alleged that this ensures that “tax havens are safe for his close friends and that they continue to enjoy the protection of excessive banking secrecy and complex international regulations." "The revelation that at least two opaque funds that are alleged to have done round-tripping, money laundering and to