New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned film and daughter-in-law of Amitabh Bachchan, actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to appear before it and record her statement in the Panama Papers case.
The ED had registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act following the leak of papers having names of Indians, sources said.
Rai was one of several prominent personalities named in 2016 Panama Papers expose. The summons from the ED is the first indication that agencies are actively pursuing the case against the Bachchans who, records indicate, floated an offshore entity, Amic Partners Limited, in the British Virgin Islands in 2005.
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