India, March 7 -- A claim has gone viral on social media that George Soros, the billionaire investor and financier, has been placed on house arrest amid the Department of Justice's probe into his organization, the Open Society Foundations. The posts go on to claim that Soros's son, Alexander Soros, has fled the United States over the purported house arrest.

However, the claims are false. George has not been placed on house arrest, and his son, Alexander Soros, has not fled the United States.

The post claims that federal agents surrounded Soros's estate in Katonah, New York and placed him under house arrest. His son, Alexander Soros, purportedly fled on a private jet from Teterboro Airport at 3:22am on March 6 to Dubai, ahead of a suppos...