Sunak 'Mystery Loan' To Firm In Furlough Boost

He's urged 'Come clean' on payment

- Nick Sommerlad

RISHI Sunak has come under further pressure over a mystery loan he made to a firm that went on to benefit from Covid support.

Accounts filed at Companies House until 2019 show the Chancellor was owed £652,499 by his wife Akshata Murty's venture capital business Catamaran Ventures.

But in September, Ms. Murty claimed the loan had been transferred to her five years previously.

However, she had signed three sets of accounts which stated the opposite and that her husband remained a long-term creditor.

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner demanded answers on the loan from Mr Sunak, who this week was fined over the Partygate scandal.

She said: “This looks like more than careless accounting.