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With a 9.4 percent drop in share price on Monday, Narayana Murthy, father of Akshata Murty, wife of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, lost over $61 million on his 0.94 percent holding in the Indian software giant Infosys. Her loss underlines the disparity between the Sunak family’s riches and the problems of regular Britons amid the present cost-of-living crisis, even though her share is still worth over £450 million. While some staff has been let go in recent months and recruiting has slowed, Infosys workers have complained about poor compensation and lack of job security.

After giving away 71 crore rupees to Rishi Sunak’s wife for free while only paying 3.2LPA to unsuspecting engineers, Infosys is facing the largest loss in its history.

Shares of Infosys Ltd plummeted the most since Rishi Sunak became UK prime minister, costing Akshata Murty, his wife, an estimated $61 million on Monday.

Murty has 0.94 percent ownership in the Indian software behemoth that her father, Narayana Murthy, helped to create. On Monday, the company’s stock plummeted amid a series of downgrades from analysts as a result of its projections that presented a bleak picture for India’s technology industry. The 9.4 percent loss at market closing was the most since March 2020.

Even if Murty’s stock is still worth over 450 million pounds after the paper loss, the disparity between the prime minister and average Britons during the cost of living crisis is brought into sharp focus.

Murty’s riches and outside interests have been a frequent subject in her husband’s political career, but Sunak’s office refused to comment. It was revealed that she is a non-dom and has not been paying UK tax on her offshore income since last year. She said her arrangements were “entirely legal,” but she also began reporting her income to the British government.

Separately on Monday, the UK Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg launched an investigation into whether Sunak omitted to disclose a relevant interest about a small shareholding held by his wife in a daycare firm. The premier would work with Greenberg, according to his office, and the interest had been “transparently declared.”

As the wife of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murty is entitled to a dividend payout of 68.17 crores from her stock in Infosys, the second biggest information technology company in India.

According to public disclosures made by Infosys with stock markets, Ms. Murty, the daughter of co-founder Narayana Murthy, owned 3.89 crore shares of the business as of the end of December.

For FY23 (April 2022 – March 2023), Infosys has announced a final dividend of 17,50 per share. She stands to gain 68.17 crores if she holds on to her shares until the record date of June 2.

She stands to gain 132.4 crores if she also receives the 16.50 per share interim dividend that was announced in October of last year.

She received 31 in dividends per share from Infosys for the preceding fiscal year, for a total of 120.76 crores. At Thursday’s BSE closing price of 1,388.60 a share, her investment is worth slightly over 5,400 crores.

Infosys is regarded as one of India’s top dividend payers.

Mr. Sunak, 42 at the time, became Britain’s youngest leader in modern times and first prime minister of Indian heritage in October of last year.

Although Sunak was born in the United Kingdom, he married an Indian native named Akshata. Her non-domiciled status has caused controversy in the UK since it permits her to make money overseas without paying taxes in Britain for up to 15 years.

In April of last year, when Sunak initially joined the contest to become prime minister, his wife Akshata’s non-domiciled status became a topic of concern in Britain.

Her spokesman at the time said that she was ineligible to have dual citizenship and that “she has always and will continue to pay UK taxes on all of her UK income” due to her citizenship in India.

As the storm of criticism grew, Akshata said that, in keeping with her “British sense of fairness,” she would be subject to taxation in the United Kingdom on all of her income.

How much of her dividend income was subject to taxation in the United Kingdom is unknown.

The daughter of Sudha Murty, who was from Hubballi in northern Karnataka, Akshata attended school in Bengaluru before relocating to the United States to study economics and French at Claremont McKenna College.

After briefly working for Deloitte and Unilever, she attended the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles and earned a degree in fashion design. Later, she proceeded to Stanford for her MBA, where she met Rishi Sunak.

In 2009, they tied the knot. The couple’s children, Krishna and Anoushka, are also property moguls.

They own a property in Kensington that costs £7 million. They have a California penthouse, a property in Rishi’s constituency in Yorkshire, and a Kensington apartment.

Sunak attended Winchester, a prestigious English boarding school, and afterward Oxford University. His parents are both doctors and pharmacists. After working for Goldman Sachs for three years, he went on to get an MBA from Stanford University in California, where he also met the woman who would become his wife, Akshata Murty.

The promoters own 13.11 percent of Infosys, as reported by the business. Narayana Murthy owns 0.40 percent, his wife Sudha 0.82 percent, their son Rohan 1.45 percent, and their daughter Akshata 0.93 percent of the company.