Ravindra Kishore Sinha, also known as RK Sinha (22 September 1951) is an Indian billionaire businessman, politician, philanthropist and journalist . He is the founder of
Security and Intelligence Services, a private security provider in India and Australia.
Sinha is a graduate of Political Science and Law and started his career as a journalist. He created Security and Intelligence Services to help retired servicemen after the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
Sinha was elected to the
Rajya Sabha
Rajya Sabha (Council of States) is the upper house of the Parliament of India and functions as the institutional representation of India’s federal units — the states and union territories.https://rajyasabha.nic.in/ It is a key component o ...
to represent Bihar State by the
Bhartiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Since 2014, ...
(BJP) as a
Member of Parliament in the Indian Upper House in 2014.
In November 2017, an investigation conducted by the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalism cited his name in
the list of politicians named in "
Paradise Papers
The Paradise Papers are a set of over 13.4 million confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investments that were leaked to the German reporters Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, from the newspaper'' Süddeutsche Z ...
" where he was found to be clean chit and with no legal issues. This reference did not appear to contain anything other than legal dealings.
References
1951 births
People from Buxar district
Businesspeople from Bihar
Rajya Sabha members from Bihar
Living people
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Bihar
People named in the Paradise Papers
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