mumbai infosys played down its business ties in russia on friday after british finance minister rishi sunak came under fire over his wifes stake in the it giantinfosys with a market value of some 100 billion was cofounded by sunaks fatherinlaw n r narayana murthy his daughter akshata murthy sunaks wife owns a stake worth around 1 billionwith britain and others seeking to isolate russia economically over its invasion of ukraine sunak was grilled in an interview with sky news on thursday about infosys and his wifes shareasked if infosys was also reducing its presence in russia sunak said i have absolutely no idea because i have nothing to do with that companyi am an elected politician and im here to talk to you about what i am responsible for my wife is not he saidinfosys also issued a statement saying that it had committed 1 million towards relief efforts for victims of the warinfosys has a small team of employees based out of russia that services some of our global clients locally we do not have any active business relationships with local russian enterprises it saidnew delhi and moscow have had close ties since the cold war with the indian military still heavily dependent on russian equipmentindia has stopped short of condemning russias invasion abstaining several times in votes at the united nations and continuing to buy russian oilpresident vladimir putin has been a regular visitor to india most recently in december in a rare overseas trip when he called india a great power a friendly nation and a timetested friendputin also visited the corporate headquarters of infosys in bangalore in 2004 and was welcomed by cofounder murthy who has since retiredakshata murthy and sunaks wealth they own at least four properties has already raised questions in the british media with ordinary britons suffering painful rises in the cost of livingsome of murthys lavish reported presents to her husband including a 180 smart mug and 95 sliders have already caused the 41yearold tipped as a possible future prime minister embarrassment