Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been summoned by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Panama paper leak case in the FEMA case. She was asked to appear before the ED’s Delhi office on Monday (December 20) for questioning. She arrived at the office at 2:20 pm.
The actress was earlier summoned by ED on November 9, 2021 under Section 37 FEMA, however, she did not join the probe. The summon was sent to her Mumbai residence ‘Pratiksha.’ The actress was asked to respond within 15 days, following which he replied via email.
ED has been probing the case since 2016. It is said that the leaked documents were originally obtained by German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung.
Among those, about 12,000 documents are linked to Indians, that include celebrities and businessmen on the list. Amitabh Bachchan’s name had also cropped up in the case which is also being probed by the Income Tax Department.
On the work front, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was last seen in Fanney Khan in 2018. She is making a comeback after four years with Mani Ratnam’s ambitious historical fiction drama titled Ponniyin Selvan.
