Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) quizzed Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for straight 5 hours on Monday, in a case linked to the 2016 ‘Panama Papers’ global tax leaks case. Aishwarya Rai reached the ED office in the afternoon, where she was being grilled over the case.Also Read – Aishwarya Rai Summoned by ED in Panama Papers Case
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, 48, the daughter-in-law of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, was summoned by ED for questioning in Delhi.
The ED has been probing the case since 2016 when the global leaks came to light. It later issued notices to the Bachchan family asking them to explain their foreign remittances since 2004 under the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS).
Some other instances of alleged irregularities linked to the family are also under the scanner of the federal probe agency, the officials said.
Dubbed ‘Panama Papers’, an investigation of a stockpile of records from Panamanian legal firm Mossack Fonseca by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists had named several world leaders and celebrities who had allegedly stashed away money abroad in offshore companies. Some of them are stated to be holding valid overseas accounts.
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