Her stake in the company brought her over £10m last year – from which she paid no UK taxes. This point is crucial because this bet eventually led to the company’s instability, leading to its sale to the Royal Bank of Scotland – which ultimately started the chain of events that lead to the financial crash of 2008.īut aside from his own personal dealings, his billionaire wife’s finances have recently come under close scrutiny.Īkshata Murthy was widely criticised after being exposed for claiming non-domicile status on dividend payments she received from her father’s tech company, Infosys. The hedge fund is known for launching a campaign that bet against a major Dutch Bank – ABN Amro. Sunak also worked for the hedge fund ‘The Children’s Investment Fund Management’. Aside from this, however, he’s worked for some of the world’s largest and most profitable banks, including the notorious Goldman Sachs. This opened many doors for Sunak, and he even went on to work as a director of his father’s in law’s company ‘Catamaran Ventures’. Please see our Privacy Policy for information. We will not share your information with third parties. But it was while obtaining his MBA at Stanford University that he met his future wife – billionaire Akshata Murthy – daughter of Indian Billionaire Narayana Murthy. Rishi was born in 1980 to ‘well to do’ parents – his dad, a general practitioner, and his mother, manager of a local pharmacy. Estimates put his wealth at around £200m – so, just where does all his wealth come from?

And for more context, here is just one of Sunak’s four luxury properties – a striking £1.5m mansion located in Yorkshire.

For context, he’s actually the richest member of the House of Commons. The first and most striking fact about our current chancellor is that he’s rich – and we mean really rich. But behind the wide smiles and polished look, a much more sinister and calculating individual can be identified. Rishi Sunak’s everywhere these days, from announcing budgets, to his countless photo-ops. Boohoo! Learn more in the first of our ‘Meet the Tories’ series: Who is Rishi Sunak? The millionaire has to pay a fine for breaking lockdown rules, and his even richer wife is going to have to pay some tax on her income.

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