Bollywood actress
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will appear before Enforcement Directorate (ED) in
connection with the Panama Papers case on Monday. According to sources, the ED
officials have already prepared the list of questions. Soon, Amitabh Bachchan
can be asked to appear before ED.
What is the Panama Papers leak case?
The Panama
Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that were published
beginning on April 3, 2016. The documents contain personal financial
information about wealthy individuals and public officials that had previously
been kept private. Many Indian industrialists and celebrities, including actors
Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, DLF owner K.P. Singh and Vinod Adani
(Gautam Adani’s elder brother), were named in the leaked documents. All these
people were accused of tax evasion.
The
investigation of the Panama Papers case is going on for a long time, in this
case, Abhishek Bachchan has also been questioned. Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya
Rai were named in this case. They have been called earlier to the ED office to
submit some documents. According to a report, Amitabh Bachchan was made a
director of 4 companies. Of these, three were in the Bahamas, while one
was in the Virgin Islands. These were created in 1993. Aishwarya was
earlier made the director of a company. Later she was declared a shareholder
of the company.
Aishwarya
Rai had also been summoned earlier for questioning, but she had twice sought
more time.