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Navin Khanna (born 1 April 1962) is an Indian businessman and former
polo Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ...
player. Khanna's business interests are in the
commodities In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them. The price of a comm ...
,
alcohol Alcohol most commonly refers to: * Alcohol (chemistry), an organic compound in which a hydroxyl group is bound to a carbon atom * Alcohol (drug), an intoxicant found in alcoholic drinks Alcohol may also refer to: Chemicals * Ethanol, one of sev ...
,
food Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is inge ...
and drinks industries. In his business career, he has facilitated the import of commodities to India for a diverse range of foreign companies. Khanna's name appeared in the Offshore Leaks report that was published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in 2013. Khanna has been a noted polo player and contributed towards growing the popularity of the sport in India.


Early life

Navin Khanna was born on 1 April 1962 in
Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
, India. Born into the
Khanna family The Khanna family is a prominent Punjabi Hindus, Punjabi Hindu family originating from India. Members of the Khanna family have been involved in various fields, including business, Financial services, finance, politics, philanthropy, sports, and ...
, he is the second child and eldest son of businessman
Vipin Khanna Vipin Kumar Khanna (14 December 1930 – 7 November 2019) was an Indian business magnate and a retired officer of the Indian Army. Khanna had diverse business interests. He founded Dynamic Sales Service International, a commodities trading and m ...
and Naginder Khanna. His mother, Naginder, was the daughter of
Maharaja Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or " high king". A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, an ...
Bhupinder Singh of
Patiala Patiala () is a city in southeastern Punjab, India, Punjab, northwestern India. It is the fourth largest city in the state and is the administrative capital of Patiala district. Patiala is located around the ''Qila Mubarak, Patiala, Qila Mubarak ...
. Khanna's elder sister is Vinita, and his younger brothers are
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and Aditya.


Business career

Khanna is a director in various companies, and his business interests are in the
commodities In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them. The price of a comm ...
,
alcohol Alcohol most commonly refers to: * Alcohol (chemistry), an organic compound in which a hydroxyl group is bound to a carbon atom * Alcohol (drug), an intoxicant found in alcoholic drinks Alcohol may also refer to: Chemicals * Ethanol, one of sev ...
,
food Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is inge ...
and drinks industries. He has been a director in the Dynamic Sales Service International (DSSI) group of companies, which was founded by his father Vipin. Khanna is a director in Oilex Trading, a commodities trading and marketing company, which was founded in 2006. The company trades
coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...
,
petroleum Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crud ...
, fertiliser,
sugar Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double ...
,
molasses Molasses () is a viscous substance resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. Molasses varies in the amount of sugar, method of extraction and age of the plant. Sugarcane molasses is primarily used to sweeten and flavour foods ...
and
ethanol Ethanol (abbr. EtOH; also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound. It is an Alcohol (chemistry), alcohol with the chemical formula . Its formula can be also written as or (an ethyl ...
. Oilex Trading has facilitated the import of commodities to India for various foreign companies, which include Vitol,
Gunvor Gunvor Group Ltd is a Cypriot-domiciled multinational commodity trading company registered in Cyprus, with its main trading office in Geneva, Switzerland. Gunvor also has trading offices in Singapore, the Bahamas, and Dubai, with a network of re ...
, TotalEnergies Gas & Power, Tricon Energy, BCT Chemtrade, United Molasses, Enerfo Sugar, AOT Holdings and
Macquarie Group Macquarie Group Limited () is an Australian global financial services group. Headquartered and listed in Australia (), Macquarie employs more than 17,000 staff in 33 markets, is the world's largest infrastructure asset manager and Australia' ...
's commodities trading division. Through his other company, Dynamic Brands, Khanna is involved in the distribution of alcoholic beverages, including whisky,
wine Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are m ...
, and
vodka Vodka ( pl, wódka , russian: водка , sv, vodka ) is a clear distilled alcoholic beverage. Different varieties originated in Poland, Russia, and Sweden. Vodka is composed mainly of water and ethanol but sometimes with traces of impuritie ...
, as well as the supply of concentrates.


Offshore Leaks report

Khanna's name appeared in the Offshore Leaks report. In 2013, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) produced, from the leaks of 1.5 million files and other forms of data, information of over 100,000 anonymous owners of secret
offshore companies The term "offshore company" or “offshore corporation” is used in at least two distinct and different ways. An offshore company may be a reference to: * a company, group or sometimes a division thereof, which engages in offshoring business pro ...
,
funds Funding is the act of providing resources to finance a need, program, or project. While this is usually in the form of money, it can also take the form of effort or time from an organization or company. Generally, this word is used when a firm uses ...
and
trusts A trust is a legal relationship in which the holder of a right gives it to another person or entity who must keep and use it solely for another's benefit. In the Anglo-American common law, the party who entrusts the right is known as the "settl ...
located in
offshore tax havens An offshore financial centre (OFC) is defined as a "country or jurisdiction that provides financial services to nonresidents on a scale that is incommensurate with the size and the financing of its domestic economy." "Offshore" does not refer ...
, and predominantly in the
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. The Offshore Leaks report was one of the earliest leaks of its kind in a series of offshore related leaks that also included the
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in 2016,
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'' Süddeutsch ...
in 2017 and
Pandora Papers The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 3 ...
in 2021. Khanna was the shareholder of Victoria Road Investments Limited, a company that was linked to the British Virgin Islands.


Polo

Khanna has been a noted
polo Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ...
player in India. He has also been one of the businessmen who have been credited with popularising polo in India by either owning their own teams or sponsoring tournaments. Khanna has owned a polo team and has played for other teams as well. From 2004 to 2009, Khanna owned his own polo team that had 20 polo ponies and was a successful team in the lower to middle handicap tournaments within India. Khanna was one of the co-founders of the Haryana Polo Club, which was founded in 2001, and was also one of the club's patrons. In 2014, he was a provisional member of the
San Diego Polo Club San Diego Polo Club is a polo club in situated Rancho Santa Fe in San Diego, California. The club was founded in 1986. The San Diego Polo Club has one of the longest playing seasons in the country, offering polo from May- November, 5 world-class pol ...
. Khanna has also competed in polo tournaments in India. In 2001, he competed in the Hanut Cup while playing for the Ramgarh polo team and scored three goals in a match against Royal Kashmir. Khanna has also played for the Teachers polo team. In 2002, he won the Pataudi Cup at the Jaipur Polo Ground while playing for Teachers. In November 2003, Khanna scored a goal in a Teachers loss to Royal Kashmir in the quarter-finals of the Maharaja Hari Singh Cup Polo Tournament. In December 2003, he scored two goals in a Teachers win against 61 Cavalry polo team in the Habanos Cavalry Gold Cup. In 2004, Khanna competed in the ITC Maurya Sheraton Polo Trophy. In December 2009, on
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, he played in a
beach polo Beach polo is a team sport and close variant of arena polo. Game play A game of beach polo consists of two three-player teams as opposed to the usual four-player teams in field polo. A game consists of four seven-minute periods of play, called ...
exhibition game An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, a scrimmage, a demonstration, a preseason game, a warmup match, or a preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or ...
held in
Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...
. In February 2010, Khanna played for Pioneer Urban Sanawar against Thunderbolt in the Sanawar Polo Match. The Sanawar Polo Match was an exhibition game and the proceeds earned from the match were given to The Lawrence School, Sanawar. In 2014, he played for Aravali Polo in the Amity Polo Cup, and lost to Action Polo in the tournament. In 2015, Khanna competed in the polo season in the
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, which was the last notable time he played polo.


Personal life

Khanna is married to Kavita Khanna. They have two children: Rahul and Ahilya. His son, Rahul, is a
British Indian British Indians are citizens of the United Kingdom (UK) whose ancestral roots are from India. This includes people born in the UK who are of Indian origin as well as Indians who have migrated to the UK. Today, Indians comprise about 1.4 mil ...
businessman based in
London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
, England.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khanna, Navin 1962 births Living people Khanna family Punjabi Hindus Indian polo players Businesspeople from Delhi Indian commodities traders Businesspeople in the drink industry People named in the Offshore Leaks report