India among 20 countries that paid $7.8 million to Donald Trump businesses: Report
The Wire. Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars mentioned that in 2018, India had spent $66,046 on combined common charges for two units at Trump World Tower on Turtle Bay. The report further provides a projection of this figure over the four years of Trump’s administration giving a total of $264,184.
The report further stated that this figure did not include additional charges like electricity and special assessments that were paid in 2018. The Indian embassy in Washington DC spent the remaining $18,500 on three separate stays that were occupied by Indian diplomats during February and March 2017, as per the information obtained under the Right to Information Act. Moreover, it was found that in the South Asian region, India was home to the largest number of Trump-owned business projects outside the United States.
The report by the Democrats on the Oversight Committee stated, “Former President Trump’s numerous foreign business entanglements in India and his direction of US foreign policy during his presidency repeatedly intersected, creating conspicuous conflicts of interest," reported The Wire. The report mentions that Trump laid the foundation for his “uniquely warm relationship with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi through his business ventures." According to the report, PM Modi said that Donald Trump had been “full of very warm remarks and observations for me" when PM Modi visited the White House during Trump’s presidency. In August 2014, Trump visited India to promote a project, soon after PM Modi was elected as prime minister.
BJP leader and currently a Maharashtra cabinet minister, Mangal Prabhat Lodha was a partner in Trump's project. The report pointed out that in 2013, “several of Mr. Lodha’s companies had
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