Hans Kristian Rausing (; born 15 June 1963) is a Swedish billionaire and the son of packaging industrialist

Hans Rausing Hans Anders Rausing, KBE (25 March 1926 – 30 August 2019) was a Swedish industrialist and philanthropist based in the United Kingdom. He made his fortune from his co-inheritance of Tetra Pak, a company founded by his father Ruben Rausing, and ...

. His grandfather

Ruben Rausing Anders Ruben Rausing (; né Andersson; 17 June 1895 – 10 August 1983) was a Swedish industrialist and the founder of the liquid food packaging company Tetra Pak. Early life Anders Ruben Andersson was born in 1895 in Råå, a small fishing h ...

founded the food-packaging giant

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. The family has an estimated $12 billion fortune. Rausing did not enter the family business. Instead, he travelled in his youth before meeting Eva Kemeny while in

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in the United States. On 16 October 1992, the couple married. In common with other members of the Rausing family, they settled in London (and Barbados), and donated millions of pounds to charities, in particular those concerned with drug awareness and addiction prevention. They built and funded a rehabilitation centre on the Caribbean island of Barbados. In April 2008, Rausing and his wife were arrested on drugs charges after Mrs Rausing allegedly tried to take small amounts of

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and heroin into the United States embassy in London. Quantities of crack cocaine and heroin were then found in their home. They were charged with possession of a large amount of cocaine and smaller quantities of crack, heroin and cannabis after a Scotland Yard investigation. They admitted possessing

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(cocaine and heroin) and received a police caution. On 10 July 2012 Rausing was arrested on suspicion of possessing

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, after which his wife Eva Rausing was found dead at the couple's

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home. Rausing failed to report his wife's death for two months. On 17 July 2012, he was charged with delaying burial of her body. He pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence. The couple had four children. He married Julia Delves Broughton, daughter of Sir Evelyn Delves Broughton, 12th Bt and sister of

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, in June 2014.

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1963 births Living people Criminals from London People from Lund Swedish billionaires British billionaires Swedish philanthropists Philanthropists from London Swedish emigrants to the United Kingdom Hans Kristian {{UK-business-bio-1960s-stub