Shah Rukh Khan IPL Controversy: King Khan of Bollywood is always dominant with his IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders. The mega auction of IPL 2025 is taking place in Saudi Arabia. Shahrukh Khan has used all his strength to buy the team Kolkata Knight Riders. Shahrukh’s team Kolkata Knight Riders had won the title of 2024, due to which this team is in more headlines. Anyway, Shahrukh dominates every season of IPL for some reason or the other. Once it happened that ED had 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 trophies several times, Shahrukh came under the radar of ED.
This was the controversy
According to the report published in Times of India, ED had once sent summons to Shahrukh Khan. ED has summoned him on forex violations as he had undervalued the shares of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team. The ED had concluded an audit that the value of Kolkata Knight Riders shares was undervalued during the transfer transaction. In April 2015, the ED had summoned Shahrukh, interrogating him about the violations during the investigation of IPL cricket teams in which several rules of money transactions were violated, the ED found out that Shahrukh, the owner of team KKR Had also violated some rules.
Why did you 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 into the stadium which was important for the success of IPL.