When Shahrukh came on the radar of ED, he was accused of this?
King Khan of bollywood is always in the news for his IPL team kolkata Knight Riders. The mega auction of IPL 2025 is being held in Saudi Arabia. shahrukh khan has put all his strength to buy the team kolkata Knight Riders. Shahrukh's team kolkata Knight Riders won the 2024 title, due to which this team is in more headlines. Anyway, Shahrukh remains in the news for some reason or the other in every season of IPL. Once it happened that ED called him to their office to ask questions. Let us tell you about this controversy.
Shahrukh Khan's team kolkata Knight Riders has won the trophy thrice. In 2012, 2014 and 2024. Even after winning the trophy many times, Shahrukh came on the radar of ED.
This was the controversy
According to the report published in Times of India, shahrukh khan was once summoned by ED. ED has summoned him over foreign exchange violations, as he had undervalued the shares of kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team. ED had concluded in an audit that the value of kolkata Knight Riders shares was undervalued during the transfer transactions. In april 2015, ED had summoned Shahrukh, questioning him about the violations during the investigation of IPL cricket teams in which many rules of money transactions were violated, ED found that team KKR owner Shahrukh had also violated some rules.
Why did he buy KKR?
Recently Lalit Modi has told in an interview that shahrukh khan actually wanted to buy mumbai Indians but mukesh ambani bought it. After which kolkata was his last choice. Shahrukh's real contribution was to make cricket entertaining. He brought women and children to the stadium which was important for the success of IPL.