Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s super-rich wife is still claiming taxpayers’ cash to pay furloughed staff at her gym business, official documents reveal.
Akshata Murty is a director and shareholder of boutique gym business Digme which has been forced to close its eight studios in London and Oxford during the pandemic.
Mrs Murty is the daughter of one of India’s biggest businessmen and her shares in his tech firm Infosys are worth £430m, making her one of Britain’s richest women, with a fortune larger than the Queen’s.
She has a 4.5% stake in Digme Fitness Limited, which appears on a newly released list of nearly 750,000 businesses which received furlough cash in December.
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