On January 21, hours before Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Rajkummar Rao-starrer The White Tiger was to drop online, producers Sonia Mudbhatkal and John Hart had a filed a copyright infringement suit in the Delhi High Court against the film’s producer, his chartered accountant Sharad Seksaria and Netflix. They claimed they held the adaptation rights to Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel. now, the producer duo have gone to the Enforcement Directorate, alleging that the producer used a cheque from a now-defunct Swiss bank, BSI, for “suspicious transactions for the project”.

In their email to the ED, Hart and Mudbhatkal lodged a formal request for an investigation into the transactions. They also alleged that Netflix was in the know of the producer’s “various shell companies.” He, in turn, told mid-day there was no wrongdoing.