Gautam Adani loses Asia's richest crown as stock crash wipes out $84b

Gautam Adani loses Asia's richest crown as stock crash wipes out $84b

Gautam Adani Photographer: Adeel Halim/Bloomberg

Indian tycoon Gautam Adani lost his title of Asia’s richest person on Wednesday as a rout in his conglomerate’s biggest companies deepened to $84 billion in the wake of a short-seller report.

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