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Sunanda was sales director in a Dubai-based real estate company Tecom. In April 2010, she had to relinquish a stake in the Kochi IPLteam estimated at Rs 70 crore, when allegations of corruption against her then beau Shashi Tharoor (Union minister at the time) created a furore.