Along with many white-collared officials, Bollywood’s megastarAmitabs emerged in the infamous Panama Papers issue with the Income Tax department “aggressively” pursuing the case. The I-T department has dispatched a higher authority to the British Virgin Islands to extract information, a senior official told..
The Caribbean Island is considered to be one of the several tax havens. Thirty-three prosecutions have been launched by the tax department to the names popped up in the Panama Papers and is questioning others.
An official, IT official told the media, “There is no let-up in investigations. We are aggressively seeking information from other countries.”
When interrogated about the information linked to the accusations against Bachchan, the officials stated, Amitabh has said he does not own any of the firms named in the documents.
So we just can’t launch a probe. We have to seek information.”
