Gopichand Hinduja remains the richest man in the UK for the fourth consecutive year.
According to today’s Sunday Times’ wealthy list for 2025, an 85-year-old businessman with the Indian Giants Group and his family are worth £35 billion.
But who is a Hindu family? This is everything we know.
The richest man in Britain was born on January 29, 1940, began his career in India and worked with his late brother Srichand for his father’s textile company, who died in 2023.
In 2000, the family and Srichand were especially Being trapped by a scandal Labour Secretary Peter Mandleson called Home Secretary Mike O’Brien on behalf of Srichand while seeking British citizenship.
This led to Mr. Mandelson’s resignation from the government, but in the same month, Foreign Minister Keith Vaz also made it public and also contacted the Ministry of the Interior on behalf of the brothers.
In June of that year, Mr. Watz was fired as Minister of Europe after admitting that the brothers applied for passports while applying for a defender.
In another investigation into his financial transaction in late 2001, Hinduhas cleared Mr. Watz failed to pay his wife’s legal company, but they did find that he conspired with his wife to hide the payment.
It noted that while Mr. Watz did not benefit from payments to his wife for legal advice on immigration matters, he was exempted from disclosure of this information in the House of Commons.
In 2024, Gopi’s brother Prakash, along with his wife Ajay and his wife Namrata, were found guilty of exploitation and illegal employment by Swiss courts and handed them to four to four and a half years.
How did he use his meaning?
Gopi and his brothers began with the trading and textile division of his father’s company, expanding the family business to one of the most valuable worlds in the 1980s and 1990s.
In the 1980s, siblings expanded their commercial interests by purchasing Gulf Oil and Ashok Leyland from Leyland, England, and opened banks in India and Switzerland in the 1990s.
Houghton International, the world’s largest liquid metal manufacturer, was purchased by its Hinduja Group in 2012. $1 billion.
The Hinduja Group operates in a variety of industries including energy, media and entertainment, as well as banking and finance. About 200,000 people Hired by global conglomerates.
Hinduja married Sunita Hinduja and the two have three children – Sanjay, Dheeraj and Rita.
Sunita keeps her life private and doesn’t know the billionaire’s wife.
Gopi’s eldest son, Sanjay, is followed by the chairman of Gulf Oil International Limited.
He is also an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco and is a member of several medical societies including: the American Society of Hematology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Canadian Society of Medical Oncologists, and the Fresno Madeira Medical Society.
In 2015, he married designer Anu Mahtani, at a £15 million wedding in Udaipur, India, which included performances by Jennifer Lopez and Nicole Scherzinger.
Born in Tehran, Iran, Dheeraj also followed in his father’s footsteps and has served as chairman of Ashok Leyland since October 2010.
He received his bachelor’s degree from University College London in 1993 and his MBA from Imperial College London in 1994.
During the Empire, he met Shalini Chandiramani, the daughter of a Moroco-based film publisher, who married before 1996 and had two children, Vedika and Vedant.
Rita, the only daughter of the family, was born in Tehran, Iran, and moved to London with her family at the age of eight. However, she returned to her roots in Pune, India, and in 1999 she founded the Mukul Madhav Foundation (MMF).
Rita is also part of the family business of co-chairs of Hinduja Group. She married Prakash P Chhabria, chairman of Finolex.
