Anurag Dikshit

Anurag Dikshit (; born 1973) is an Indian businessman. After selling 23% of his stake in the company's initial public offering, and a further two-thirds, in October 2009, he sold the remainder of his stake in PartyGaming in 2010.

Early life and education Anurag Dikshit was born in October 1971. to write the betting software for her company Starluck Casino.

The company floated on the London Stock Exchange in June 2005, with Dikshit earning a significant sum due to owning a considerable portion of the company. In that position, he developed new products but largely stepped back from media appearances. "I came to believe there was a high probability it was in violation of U.S. laws", Dikshit told U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in New York, referring to PartyGaming's activity. At the time, he still owned approximately 28% of the company's shares, equal at the time to about $300 million. He paid off the fine in June 2009. According to Forbes, he donated the proceeds from the sales to the Kusuma Trust, a charity he'd founded several years prior to aid at-risk children.

Kusuma Trust

According to The Telegraph, in 2010, Dikshit and the Sainsbury family were Britain's biggest donors, both giving away over £100 million that year.

In 2013, he had been an early funder of Next Education Private Limited in Hyderabad.

By 2014, he had transferred around £172.4 million to his fund the Kusuma Trust, registered in Gibraltar. That year, the Ministry of Home Affairs in India stalled a transfer of funds from the Kusuma Trust to Amnesty International India. Amnesty did not have the necessary registration to receive funds from abroad, with the matter put under inquiry. At the time, Kusuma funded 10 organisations related to the field of education. In 2023, he remains a trustee at Kusuma Trust.

Personal life In 2023, he and his wife lived with their two children in London. in 2008, he was also a resident of the United Kingdom and Gibraltar, having first set up a residence in Gibraltar in 2001.