[2] The group is present in eleven sectors including automotive, oil and specialty chemicals, banking and finance, IT and ITeS, cyber security, healthcare, trading, infrastructure project development, media and entertainment, power, and real estate.

Vaz said via a Foreign Office spokesman that he would be "fully prepared" to answer questions put to him by Sir Anthony Hammond QC who had been asked by the Prime Minister to carry out an inquiry into the affair.

[20] On 26 January 2001, Prime Minister Tony Blair was accused of prejudicing the independent inquiry into the Hinduja passport affair, after he declared that Keith Vaz had not done "anything wrong".

"[21] On 29 January, the government confirmed that the Hinduja Foundation had held a reception for Vaz in September 1999 to celebrate his appointment as the first Asian Minister in recent times.

[22] In March, Vaz was ordered to fully co-operate with a new inquiry launched into his financial affairs by Elizabeth Filkin, who was Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards at the time.

Mr Vaz met Mrs Filkin on 20 March to discuss a complaint that the Hinduja Foundation had given the sum of £1,200 to Mapesbury Communications, a company run by his wife, in return for helping to organise a Hinduja-sponsored reception at the House of Commons.

She did, however, criticise him for his secrecy, saying, "It is clear to me there has been deliberate collusion over many months between Mr Vaz and his wife to conceal this fact and to prevent me from obtaining accurate information about his possible financial relationship with the Hinduja family".

[27] In February 2005 Ashok Leyland, the flagship company of Hinduja Group, announced an agreement to supply 100 army vehicles to the Sudanese Defence Ministry.

[28] In June 2024, a human trafficking trial began in Switzerland against four members of the Hinduja family, who were accused of exploiting household staff at their lakeside villa in Geneva, by reportedly paying as little as $8 for workdays lasting 15 to 18 hours and confiscating their passports.

[29] The Swiss court dismissed the human trafficking charges, but found them guilty of exploiting the staff; it sentenced Prakash Hinduja, wife Kamal, son Ajay and daughter-in-law Namrata to four and a half years of imprisonment.