Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday, December 20 in connection with the Panama Papers leak case. The ED has been looking into the case since 2016 and has registered a money laundry case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) in this matter.
The Bachchan family has been issued notices to explain their involvement in foreign remittances since 2004 under the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS).
For the unversed, Panama Papers is an investigation of records from the Panamanian legal firm Mossack Fonseca by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists where they had named several world leaders and celebrities who had allegedly stocked their wealth in offshore companies and have international accounts.
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