How Adani Bribe Case Will Test the Long Arm of US Law: QuickTake

US prosecutors face steep legal and diplomatic hurdles in their bid to imprison billionaire Gautam Adani for allegedly helping plot bribes of more than $250 million to officials in India and defraud US investors.

To get Adani — India’s most powerful businessman and a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — to appear in a courtroom in Brooklyn, New York, the US would likely have to pursue a legal process known as extradition. That process could take months if not years, and its outcome is by no means certain.

Gautam Adani

Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg

With a five-count indictment unsealed on Nov. 20, prosecutors ...