Bollywood actressAishwarya Rai Bachchan will appear before Enforcement Directorate (ED) inconnection with the Panama Papers case on Monday. According to sources, the EDofficials have already prepared the list of questions. Soon, Amitabh Bachchancan be asked to appear before ED.
What is the Panama Papers leak case?
The PanamaPapers are 11.5 million leaked documents that were publishedbeginning on April 3, 2016. The documents contain personal financialinformation about wealthy individuals and public officials that had previouslybeen kept private. Many Indian industrialists and celebrities, including actorsAmitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, DLF owner K.P. Singh and Vinod Adani(Gautam Adani’s elder brother), were named in the leaked documents. All thesepeople were accused of tax evasion.
Theinvestigation of the Panama Papers case is going on for a long time, in thiscase, Abhishek Bachchan has also been questioned. Amitabh Bachchan and AishwaryaRai were named in this case. They have been called earlier to the ED office tosubmit some documents. According to a report, Amitabh Bachchan was made adirector of 4 companies. Of these, three were in the Bahamas, while onewas in the Virgin Islands. These were created in 1993. Aishwarya wasearlier made the director of a company. Later she was declared a shareholderof the company.
AishwaryaRai had also been summoned earlier for questioning, but she had twice soughtmore time.