ED probe sought against Mukul Deora’s alleged benami Swiss bank account over ‘The White Tiger’ funding

By Sanjeev Sharma and Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Feb 8 : A complaint has been filed seeking a probe into Mukul Deora’s alleged benami entity and benamidar Swiss bank account, used for development funding the Netflix film, ‘The White Tiger’.
The formal request for investigation was sent to Enforcement Directorate (ED) into the dealings of late Congress politician Murli Deora’s son, Mukul Deora, his chartered accountant Sharad Seksaria, and also Netflix. The request to probe Mukul Deora’s shell companies was made by Sonia Mudbhatkal, Founder and CEO of the New Jersey-based Continuum Media LLC.
Reacting to the charges on Monday evening, Mukul Deora pointed out Delhi High Court has already observed that it was not possible to come to any prima facie conclusion that, by producing or releasing the film, the Defendants had indulged in illegal copyright infringement or transgressed the right of the Plaintiff, as was being alleged.
Earlier, Mudbhatkal said in her complaint to ED: “I wanted to lodge a formal request for an investigation into the dealings of Congress politician Murli Deora’s son Mukul Deora and his CA (and Director of all Mukul Deora and Milind Deora companies), Sharad Seksaria, and also Netflix who is their accomplice as they are in the know of all these various shell companies, and have done a deal with such companies knowingly in violation of John Hart and my (the original copyright holders and producers of the film, The White Tiger) copyright and producing rights of the picture, and in, potentially, gross violation of our country’s laws.” Mukul is one of the producers of the film while Milind Deora, a former Congress MP, is his brother.
“Mukul Deora’s lawyer Sandeep Sethi openly admits that the Irish offshore entity Particle Media (Mukul’s benami entity), which on paper belongs to Raj Lakhani (Mukul Deora’s benamidar, who is a Hong Kong resident and British Passport holder as told to us) is in fact Mukul Deora’s company”, the complaint said.