{"id":25242,"date":"2020-11-30T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/30\/rishi-sunak-wife-akshata-murty-imm-mauritius-india-tax"},"modified":"2020-11-30T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T06:00:49","slug":"rishi-sunaks-wife-owns-part-of-firm-that-funnelled-money-through-mauritius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25242","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak&#8217;s wife owns part of firm that funnelled money through Mauritius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Akshata Murty owns 5% of IMM, which used structure that could reduce taxes payable in India <\/p>\n<p>The wife of the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is a shareholder in a restaurants business that funnelled investments through a letterbox company in the tax haven of Mauritius, in a structure that could allow its backers to avoid taxes in India.<\/p>\n<p>The business, <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/08304378\">International Market Management<\/a> (IMM), is hoping to build a chain of dozens of restaurants across India, via franchise agreements with the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and the American fast food brand Wendy\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/30\/rishi-sunak-wife-akshata-murty-imm-mauritius-india-tax\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Akshata Murty owns 5% of IMM, which used structure that could reduce taxes payable in India The wife of the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is a shareholder in a restaurants business that funnelled investments through a letterbox company in the tax&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,904,1764,62,755,4,1158,61,765,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-conservatives","category-hedge-funds","category-india","category-mauritius","category-politics","category-rishi-sunak","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tax-havens","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25243,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242\/revisions\/25243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}