New Delhi: A consortium that unsuccessfully bid for an Indian Premier League franchise included actors Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor, industrialist Venugopal Dhoot’s firm Pune- based realtors Chordia family have investments in overseas company.
In the World’s biggest leak, “Panama Papers” exposed by The Indian express reports that 10 member had entered into a pact to form P-Vison Sports to bod for IPL Pune franchise, in which 15 percent was earmarked for the offshore firm, Obdurate Ltd in British Virgin Islands. It was closed after failing the bid.
In the sports consortium, the largest stake of 33 percent was held by the Chordia family, 4.5 percent each by Kareena and Karisma, 9 percent each by Saif and Mumbai resident Manoj S. Jain and 25 percent by Dhoot through two group companies. Obdurate was earmarked 15 percent.
Kareena Kapoor’s office informed she was not in town and Saif did not respond for the messages and e-mails.
Indian authorities, led by Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan, have said not every off-shore company opened by an Indian need be illegitimate, and that this would be the primary task of a probe team that has been set up as per orders by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
