Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been criticized for his wife Akshata Murty‘s 0.91 percent investment in Infosys, a company started by her father and still operating in Russia.
According to reports, the company, which was founded by Murty’s millionaire father NR Narayana Murthy, has a “small team” in Russia that serves global clients, but it does not have “any active business contacts with local Russian firms.”
According to the BBC, Infosys is closing its office in Russia and is looking for replacement jobs outside of the nation for its Moscow employees.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been chastised in the past for his employment and family finances, with charges that he is out of touch with the rest of the country when it comes to rising living costs.
When the Chancellor and his wife donated more than £100,000 to Winchester College, one of the most expensive private schools in the country and where Sunak previously served as headboy, Labour’s shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said, “Rishi Sunak has already said that he is’maxed out’ on how much support he can give to our state schools, but he continues to hand out billions in taxpayer subsidies to elitist private schools.”
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Age of Akshata Murty
Akshata Murty, who was born in 1980, is 42 years old. In 2009, she married Rishi Sunak, with whom she has two children.
Akshata Murty’s net worth?
Rishi Sunak has been dubbed the House of Commons’ wealthiest member, owing to his experience as a banker and then a hedge fund manager, as well as his wife’s inherited wealth.
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Murty’s father, N.R. Narayana Murthy, is renowned as the “Bill Gates of India,” as he and his wife Sudha turned the software company Infosys into a billion-dollar empire. With a 0.91 percent share in the corporation, Akshata Murty is worth more than the Queen, with a net worth of £500 million.
Sunak has not revealed most of his wife’s assets in his register of financial interests, a Parliamentary information resource intended to support open democracy, therefore it’s difficult to tell for sure what her exact net worth is.
When Sunak was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2019, he set up a blind trust to hide the source of the money generated by investments. Since then, MPs have pressed the Chancellor to expose the details of the blind trust, citing concerns that some of the money may be stored offshore.
What does Akshata Murty do for a living?
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Murty attended Claremont McKenna College in California, where he studied economics and French, before going on to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. She went on to Stanford University for her MBA, where she met Rishi Sunak.
Her contentious interest in Infosys accounts for the most of her money, but she is also a shareholder in at least six other firms, including Jamie Oliver’s Pizzeria, Wendy’s restaurants in India, and men’s fashion retailer New & Lingwood.
