Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was snapped exiting the
Enforcement Directorate’s office on Monday evening, after five hours of questioning. She was summoned by the ED in connection with the
Panama
Papers case. ANI posted a video of the
actress
exiting the investigating agency’s Delhi office. Dressed in an all-black attire, Aishwarya sported shades and a black mask as she made her way out amid the media frenzy.
The actress was interrogated for a case linked to the 2016 'Panama Papers' global tax leaks case, official sources said. Her statement was being recorded under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). Aishwarya also submitted few documents to the agency when she appeared before the agency at its office near India Gate.
Dubbed as 'Panama Papers', an investigation of a stockpile of records from Panamanian legal firm Mossack Fonseca by the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in 2016 had named several world leaders and celebrities who allegedly stashed away money abroad in offshore companies. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, married to Amitabh Bachchan's actor son Abhishek, was stated by the ICIJ to have links with an offshore entity in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) that was created in 2005. Her family was also stated to be part of this offshore entity that had an "initial authorised capital of USD 50,000." The company was reportedly dissolved in 2008. Abhishek Bachchan has also been examined by the ED in the past in another instance linked to the offshore leaks case, sources said.