{"id":4744,"date":"2021-12-20T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T16:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2021-12-20T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T16:21:51","slug":"bollywood-star-aishwarya-rai-bachchan-summoned-in-panama-papers-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/showbiz\/bollywood-star-aishwarya-rai-bachchan-summoned-in-panama-papers-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan summoned in Panama Papers investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Bollywood star and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been summoned by India&#8217;s Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning today (December 20) as part of its investigation into the Panama Papers leak.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old actor and wife of Abhishek Bachchan was asked to depose before the agency in Delhi. According to the Hindustan Times, the ED also issued a notice to other members of the Bachchan family for their foreign remittances since 2004. The case is considered to be a pan-Indian affair as per Gulf News because it involves several agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Rai had been summoned earlier as well but was given more time. The Devdas actor has yet to acknowledge the latest development in the case and it&#8217;s still unclear if she will testify this time.<\/p>\n<p>An official of the ED confirmed to IANS that Rai was summoned today to join the investigation. &#8220;We summoned her for December 20. As of now we haven&#8217;t got any reply from her side. The summon was sent to her Mumbai residence,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>By not attending the actor could land in further legal trouble as authorities are prepared to discuss legal options to decide the course of action.<\/p>\n<p>Five years ago many Indian celebrities made headlines for their offshore wealth and were summoned for investigations. The ED had lodged a complaint after the Panama Papers revealed information about the money being set abroad in order to avoid taxes.<\/p>\n<p>According to India Today, Rai is among 500 Indians who were named in the documents of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm in Panama.<\/p>\n<p>Indian citizens are not allowed to set up offshore companies under laws dictated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), according to The Indian Express. Both Rai and her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan as well as fellow actor Ajay Devgn were summoned in 2016 under Section 37 of India&#8217;s Foreign Exchange Management Act.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/showbiz\/when-aishwarya-rai-bachchan-served-food-to-30-people-herself-read.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">When Aishwarya Rai Bachchan served food to 30 people herself: Read<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Bollywood star and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been summoned by India&#8217;s Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning today (December 20) as part of its investigation into the Panama Papers leak. The 48-year-old actor and wife of Abhishek Bachchan was asked to depose before the agency in Delhi. According to the Hindustan Times, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[3340,3339,3338,3342],"class_list":["post-4744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","category-world","tag-ajay-devgn","tag-rbi","tag-reserve-bank-of-india","tag-the-indian-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}