Gautam Adani has put India on the spot. The country’s government may need to nudge local lenders to support the growth of the billionaire’s infrastructure conglomerate after the United States filed criminal charges against him.

Shares in India's Adani Enterprises slumped 10 percent at Thursday's open after US prosecutors charged billionaire industrialist founder Gautam Adani with paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes and hiding the payments from investors.

U.S. prosecutors allege that Gautam Adani, the second most-wealthy Indian man, personally met with Indian government officials to further their “bribery scheme.”