Actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Monday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here to be questioned in cases related to the case of Global Tax Leakage ‘Panama Panama’, the official source said.
His 48-year-old daughter from Superstar Amitabh Bachchan was questionable and his statement was recorded under the provisions of the Foreign Management Law (FEMA).
This actor has also submitted several documents to the agency when he appeared in front of an agent in his office near the Indian gate.
Dubbed ‘Panama Papers’, Inventory Investigation Notes from Panamas Mossack Fonseca Legal Companies by Washington-based international consortium (ICIJ) in 2016 has named several world leaders and celebrities who allegedly dred up overseas money in offshore companies abroad .
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Some of them are declared to hold valid overseas accounts.
Tranche leakage has a total of 426 cases related to India.
Ed has investigated cases related to Bachchans since 2016-17.
It has issued a notification to the Bachchan family who asked them to explain their foreign remittances since 2004 under the Bank of India (RBI) reserves of the liberalization of remittance scheme (LRS) and regulated under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).
Some documents were delivered by Bachchans to the agency.
Some other examples of alleged irregularities related to family are also under the scanner of the federal probe institution, said source.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, married actor Amitabh Bachchan, Son Abhishek, was stated by ICIJ to have a relationship with offshore entities in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) made in 2005.
His family was also declared as part of this offshore entity that had “capital Official official USD 50,000.
” The company was reportedly dissolved in 2008.
Abhishek Bachchan was also examined by ED in the past in another example related to the case of offshore leakage, said the source.
The government has created a multi-agency group (MAG) of the Central Investigation Institution under the Chairperson of the CBDT Center (CBDT) which also consists of officials from ED, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and financial intelligence units (FIU) to monitor the probe to In Panama paper and a similar global tax leak case.
Recently said that “total credit that was kept secret from RS 20,353 Crore” was detected in connection with 930 entities related to India in Panama leaks and Paradise Paper, on October 1, 2021.
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