Washington: As US President, Donald Trump didn’t disclose 17 items, price over $47,000, that he and his household obtained from India to the State Department, in line with an investigation by Congressional Democrats of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

These items got by the then President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, exterior affairs minister S Jaishankar, Uttar Pradesh chief minister (CM) Yogi Adityanath, the then Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani, Telangana CM Ok Chandrashekar Rao and the embassy of India in Philippines and have been obtained between 2018 and 2021. Besides Trump, India gave items to First Lady Melania Trump, Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Most items correspond to Ivanka Trump’s go to to Hyderabad in 2017 and Trump’s state go to to India in 2020.

The findings are part of a broader investigation which allege that Trump and his household didn’t disclose over 100 international items price $291,000 from a number of nations together with Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Austria, Bangladesh, amongst others. Titled “Saudi Swords, Indian Jewellery, and a Larger-than-Life Salvadoran Portrait of Donald Trump: The Trump Administration’s Failure to Disclose Major Foreign Gifts”, the interim employees report was launched on Friday.

The report says, “Failing to report and disclose gifts pursuant to these rules violates the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act and may also violate the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, which prohibits the President from obtaining benefits from foreign entities while in office. In addition, under the Ethics in Government Act, the President is required to publicly disclose gifts over the minimal value that they and their immediate family received.” The committee has additionally flagged the opportunity of international leaders utilizing items to win favours from Trump.

In a bit on India, the report says that Modi gifted Trump a “table, black marble with mother-of-pearl and stone inlay” price $1,400 and “cufflinks, by (designer Raghavendra) Rathore, in presentation box” price $1,920. Modi additionally gifted a “Charm bracelet, by Raghavendra Rathore, in presentation box” price $2,750 to Melania Trump; a “Bandhgala jacket, by Raghavendra Rathore, in presentation box” price $950 to Kushner; and a “Painting on silk, reportedly by the Pichwai Painting Deccan School of India, in frame and presentation box” price $2,200 and a “bracelet by Raghvendra Rathore” price $2,450 to Ivanka Trump.

President Kovind gifted Trump an “Indian rug, silk” price $6,600 and a mannequin of the Taj Mahal in marble price $4,630. While Adityanath gifted a “vase, makrana marble” price $8,500 to Trump, Rupani gave the US President two units of footed bowls, a lion statue, a shawl, and a candelabrum — price a complete of $7,610. Jaishankar gifted a photograph album of the state go to of Trump and the First Lady price $1,250.

In 2018, the embassy of India in Philippines gifted Ivanka Trump a “rug, silk and wool, in carrying bag” price $4,600 whereas KCR gave her a “sculpture of the Charminar, in silver filigree, in presentation case” price $2,200.

To make certain, an trade of items is an everyday a part of diplomatic exchanges and methods to advertise native merchandise. India has made a acutely aware effort to advertise make in India merchandise as items to international friends. Each nation additionally has its personal algorithm concerning the disclosure of items, with items obtained by Indian dignitaries despatched to Toshakhana. The PMO has been auctioning items obtained by PM Modi, with the proceeds going to the mission to wash the Ganga.

In Pakistan, former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sale of among the items he obtained when in workplace, after shopping for them from the reward repository at a reduction, has set off a authorized battle that was on the coronary heart of the continued standoff between police and his supporters final week.

Many of Trump’s items referred to within the Congressional report at the moment are with the National Archives, however the legislation requires the President and different federal officers to publicly disclose all items price greater than $415. This is the availability Trump’s White House is alleged to have violated.