Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty lands £7 million payout ahead of Autumn statement cuts

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The Sunak family finances received a £7 million boost today as dividend payments go out from the Prime Minister’s father-in-law’s IT business.Rishi Sunak’s heiress wife Akshata Murty is a 0.93% shareholder in Bangladore-based Infosys, which distributes its half-year dividend to investors today.Since 2020 she has now collected £35 million in dividends. Her stake in Infosys, co-founded by her father NR Narayana Murthy in 1981, is worth £594 million, according Refinitiv data.