Enforcement Directorate has summoned Bollywood’s Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in connection with the Panama Papers leak case on Monday, December 20. Reportedly the Devdas actor had sought adjournment of questioning today following which the central agency will issue her new summons soon.

As reported by ANI, the ED has filed a money-laundering case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) against the actor.

ED summons Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Aishwarya was earlier summoned by ED under Section 37 Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) on November 9, 2021, after the Panama Papers displayed how companies were set up offshore to avoid taxes.

According to media reports, she did not attend the probe. Later, the summon was sent to her Mumbai residence wherein she was asked to revert within 15 days.

About Panama Papers leak

Panama Papers is a series of leaked confidential documents that belonged to Panama-based firm Mossack Fonseca. It was released by the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung.

The document showed the network of over 214,000 tax havens involving famous personalities from 200 different nations. The leaked documents on tax fraud exposed that as many as 12,000 of these documents are associated with Indians. In 2016, these documents were leaked too wherein 500 Indians were listed in the documents.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan along with his father-in-law and megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s name was listed among the 500 Indians who were involved in the leak of 11.5 million documents. These documents revealed their offshore dealings to prevent themselves from paying taxes.

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Other Indians listed down in the 2019 Panama Papers leak included Asian Paints promoter Ashwin Dani’s son Jalaj Ashwin Dani, SUN group Nand Lal Khemka’s son, Anurag Kejriwal and Mehrasons Jewellers’ Navin Mehra, Hike Messenger CEO, PVR Cinemas owner Ajay Bijli, Wife of Dawood Ibrahim’s aid Iqbal Mirchi, DLF group’s KP Singh, and others.

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