Amitabh Bachchan has denied the allegations of him owning offshore companies in mentioned in the Panama Papers leaked by The Indian Express.
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In an official statement given out to the press Bachchan says:
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Close to 500 Indian nationals are a part of the list of people released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
A few other Indians in the list are:
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced a multi-agency probe in the matter.
Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Raghuram Rajan has also supported the probe although he defended the existence of offshore accounts.
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