April 21, 2016
On April 4, as part of its ongoing investigation into The Panama Papers, The Indian Express reported that records of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca showed that actor Amitabh Bachchan served as director of four offshore shipping companies between 1993 and 1997. A day after the report appeared, Bachchan — he did not respond to emails and phone calls from The Indian Express — issued a statement that he did not know any of the companies, had not been a director of any of them and that “it is possible that (his) name has been misused”. -These show that Bachchan, as director of two of these firms, took part in their board meetings “by telephone conference.”
These meetings of Tramp Shipping Limited (Bahamas) and Sea Bulk Shipping Company Ltd (British Virgin Islands), were held on December 12, 1994.
Bachchan’s name was also recorded in the list of directors and office bearers on the Certificate of Incumbency issued by both companies.