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.

The U.S. case against Adani won’t help Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambition to leap forward as a global manufacturing power, in part by attracting foreign direct investment.

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.