The company that pays Akshata Murthy, wife of British PM Rishi Sunak, £11.5 million a year is still operating in Russia, report says

The company owned by the UK prime minister's billionaire father-in-law is still in Moscow eight months after announcing it was pulling out.

The Indian IT firm said it was exiting the Russian market in March, yet it still has a staffed office in the Russian capital and is paying contractors to do IT work for a global client, according to the newspaper.

There is a plaque on the wall of the Moscow office. Some administrative staff are still working there as part of the process of leaving Russia, according to company sources.

Those sources said staff still in Moscow were removing computer equipment and offloading it in a "sustainable" manner ahead of a move to India.  A spokesperson told The Guardian that it was seeking to end the arrangement and had taken measures to "suspend its operations in Russia". They said employees working on client projects "have been transitioned out" and that Infosys was still paying two Moscow-based subcontractors to carry out work for a client. The spokesperson added: "Infosys does not have any active relationship with local Russian enterprises. The process of transitioning a few remaining partner and administrative staff is under way."

Akshata Murthy, the wife of the UK's prime minister, gets annual dividends of over $12 million from her stake in the outsourcing company.