Section Editor: Kadam Hans | 22 Dec 2021 16:52pm IST

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was asked to appear before the Enforcement Directorate in Delhi on Monday. This meeting emerged due to the linkage of the actress with the 2016 Panama Papers inquiry, which targets the tax evasion by a lot of persons as well as corporate firms across the globe. The examination session went on for 5 hours. She was called by the Enforcement Directorate earlier in the November of 2021.

A Special Investigation Team of officers from several government agencies has been investigating the matter since the global leak surfaced in 2016. Aishwarya Rai was featured in the list of 500 Indians of this global leak including other Indians like Mr. Amitabh Bachchan and DLF owner K.P. Singh. Since 2017, investigation officers have been asking the Bachchan family to explain their foreign remittances since 2004 under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme of the Reserve Bank of India.

Background- A Panamanian legal firm named Mossack Fonseca had listed several world leaders and celebs who had allegedly hidden money in offshore companies. Her parents and her brother were allegedly appointed as directors of Amic Partners Limited, the firm had an initial authorized capital of $50,000. 

Section Editor: Kadam Hans | 22 Dec 2021 16:52pm IST


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