TotalEnergies is one of the biggest foreign investors in Adani's business empire and had previously taken stakes in the group's renewable energy venture.

French oil major TotalEnergies halted on Monday investments into Adani Group, after the Indian ports-to-power conglomerate was engulfed in a crisis over an alleged multi-million-dollar bribery scheme.

One of Asia’s richest men, Indian tycoon Gautam Adani, is again in the spotlight. In an indictment unsealed in New York, Adani, 62, was charged with securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud.

The Adani Group has said the accusations as well as those levelled by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a parallel civil case are baseless and that it will seek "all possible legal recourse".

By Tom Westbrook, Yantoultra Ngui and YP Rajesh SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's parliament was suspended on Monday after opposition lawmakers disrupted it demanding a discussion over bribery allegations against the Adani Group and Adani dollar bond prices fell to almost one-year lows as investors and lenders weighed the case.

The companies of billionaire Gautam Adani, one of Asia’s richest men, showed some signs of recovery on Friday even as controversy and uncertainty continued to roil the Indian tycoon’s businesses after he was indicted by U.

Adani dollar bond prices fell on Monday to almost one-year lows, as investors cut their exposure to the Indian conglomerate and some bankers considered pausing fresh lending in the wake of bribery and fraud accusations by US authorities.