The Enforcement Directorate has received replies from Amitabh Bachchan and family members to notices issued to them in connection in the Panama Papers case
The
Enforcement
Directorate
has
received
replies
from
actor
Amitabh
Bachchan
and
his
family
members
to
notices
issued
to
them
in
connection
with
its
probe
in
the
Panama
Papers
case
and
they
could
be
summoned
soon,
officials
said.
Officials
in
the
anti-money
laundering
agency
said
they
had
issued
notices
to
the
Bachchan
family
some
time
back
asking
them
to
explain
their
foreign
remittances
since
2004
under
the
Liberalised
Remittance
Scheme
(LRS)
of
the
RBI.
They
said
the
Enforcement
Directorate
has
now
received
their
replies
to
the
notices
issued
under
the
Foreign
Exchange
Management
Act
(FEMA).
"The
replies
have
been
received.
They
could
be
soon
summoned
as
part
of
the
probe," sources
said.
Amitabh
Bachchan's
name
had
cropped
in
the
Panama
Papers
case
which
is
also
being
probed
by
the
Income
Tax
Department.
The
taxman
is
probing
Bollywood
megastar's
offshore
remittances.
Dubbed
as
Panama
Papers
,
an
investigation
of
a
stockpile
of
records
from
Panamanian
legal
firm
Mossack
Fonseca
by
the
International
Consortium
of
Investigative
Journalist
had
named
several
world
leaders
and
celebrities
who
had
allegedly
stashed
away
money
abroad
in
offshore
companies.
The
documents
had
surfaced
last
year.
With
inputs
from
PTI