Disgraced former chairman of Satyam Computer Services B Ramalinga Raju late Friday evening surrendered before Andhra Pradesh's Director General of Police S S P Yadav, according to a police spokesperson.
Disgraced former chairman of Satyam Computers B Ramalinga Raju on Wednesday surrendered before a local court trying the nations biggest corporate fraud, allegedly to the tune of Rs 14,000 crore (Rs 140 billion).
A team of doctors led by Dr Seshagiri Rao, head of cardiology at the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (Nims), conducted the angioplasty. Angioplasty is a technique in which the obstructed blood vessel is widened. According to Dr Rao, two stents have been put in. His condition is stable.
B Ramalinga Raju, the prime accused in the Satyam multi-crore accounting scam, is likely to surrender before a local court on November 10, the deadline set for him by the Supreme Court, after it cancelled his bail.
Satyam Computer's tainted founder B Ramalinga Raju on Wednesday secured bail from the Andhra Pradesh high court, over 17 months after his arrest on charges of allegedly fudging the IT company's accounts.
B Ramalinga Raju, the tainted founder of Satyam Computer, on Tuesday made a dramatic appearance before a local court, which is trying India's largest corporate fraud running into about Rs 14,000 crore (Rs 140 billion).
The Supreme Court has granted bail to Satyam's founder B Ramalinga Raju in multi-crore accounting fraud case.
Like a dutiful Indian wife she was unflinching in her support for her husband, Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju. And on Wednesday, she again showed her unwavering faith by bailing him out.
A local civil court in Hyderabad has issued an interim stay restraining Netflix from airing its web series Bad Boy Billionaires-India on a petition filed by B Ramalinga Raju who was convicted in the multi-crore accounting scandal of Satyam Computer Services Limited. The XXV Additional Chief Judge B Prathima, while issuing notices to Netflix Inc in USA, Netflix Entertainment Services India LLP and the nodal officer, department of electronics and information technology, posted the matter for further hearing on November 18 when the plea came up on Tuesday.
The XIV additional chief metropolitan magistrate extended the remand of Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju, ex-CFO Vadlamani Srinivas, former auditors of Price Waterhouse S Gopapalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas, and three former employees of the firm till August 5. The accused, who have been lodged in the Chanchalguda jail, were produced before the magistrate.
Satyam's founder chairman B Ramalinga Raju, who was on Tuesday chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the accounting fraud case involving thousands of crores of rupees, may face life imprisonment if convicted under Section 467 of the IPC.
Satyam Computers founder B Ramalinga Raju, who is in jail for the past eight months in connection with a Rs 8,000 crore corporate fraud, suffered a massive heart attack and was admitted to a hospital on Monday night, jail and police sources said. Raju, who will turn 55 on September 16, was transferred to the Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences hospital from Chanchalguda jail, where he is under judicial custody on charges including fraud, forgery, cheating, embezzlement.
It took the man from Bhimavaram over two decades to become the posterboy of India's Information Technology industry and less than two weeks to turn into the rogue who personifies all that is defective with the country's outsourcing industry. The former entrepreneur icon's plans started falling apart when he tried to acquire two companies promoted by his family for $1.6 billion.
Tainted chairman of Satyam Computers B Ramalinga Raju and five others were chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday for allegedly filing false income tax returns resulting in a loss of Rs 126.57 crore (Rs 1.26 billion) to the company and shareholders.
Disgraced Satyam Computers founder B Ramalinga Raju, the prime accused in the multi-crore financial fraud in the IT firm, on Thursday moved the Supreme Court pleading that he be released on bail.
Ramalinga Raju, former chairman of Satyam Computers, who last year confessed to have inflated his company's assets by over $1 billion, was declared a pauper by a New York court exempting him from paying court costs.
Scam tainted B Ramalingham Raju to have tougher times ahead.
Former Chief Financial Officer Vadlamani Srinivas has also filed a bail plea in the court.
Charges against Raju and others include criminal conspiracy and forgery.
Closing five-and-a-half year long probe into the country's biggest corporate fraud, Sebi on Tuesday barred erstwhile Satyam Computer's founder B Ramalinga Raju and four others from markets for 14 years and asked them to return Rs 1,849 crore (Rs 18.49 billion) worth of unlawful gains with interest.
Ramalinga Raju's letter to Satyam employees.
Srinivas Vadlamani, chief financial officer of Satyam Computer Services, was remanded to judicial custody till January 23 by the 6th Metropolitan Magistrate on January 11.
Ramalinga Raju's lawyer S Bharat Kumar told the media after his meeting with the Sebi officials that he had sought three day's time for Raju's appearance but they granted time only till tomorrow
By giving himself over to the police, Satyam Computer's former chairman B Ramalinga Raju may have pre-empted an extradition to the United States, where several lawsuits have been filed against him, says a section of legal experts.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday granted bail to B Rama Raju, former managing director and brother of B Ramalinga Raju (the disgraced founder of Satyam Computer), and three others accused in the over Rs 7,600-crore (Rs 76 billion) Satyam scam.
Prime accused B Ramalinga Raju has been avoiding court proceedings since September citing health reasons.
In this extract from The Satyam Saga, Business Standard looks into the origins of EMRI, the allies Raju assembled and the roots of his philanthropic works -- as well as the problems that quickly grew to endanger his vision.
Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju and six other accused were produced before the in-charge judge of XVI additional chief metropolitan magistrate, subsequent to which their judicial custody was extended till June 10. Satyam accused are lodged in Hyderabad's Chanchalguda jail.
A local court on Saturday extended the judicial custody of Ramalinga Raju, his brother and former managing director Rama Raju and former chief financial officer Vadlamani Srinivas till February 21.
A local court in Hyderabad on Thursday extended the police custody of disgraced former chairman of Satyam Computer B Ramalinga Raju by one more day. The 6th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ramakrishna also extended the police custody of former chief financial officer Vadlamani Srinivas by one more day.
The Enforcement Directorate in October last year had filed the complaint against Raju and 212 others, including 166 companies, before the XXI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court cum Special Sessions Judge here for allegedly laundering funds under a 'corporate veil' to perpetrate the accounting scam that rocked the business world in 2009.
The scam-hit Satyam Computer founder B Ramalinga Raju, brother Rama Raju and ex-chief financial officer Srinivas are in 'protective custody', former Securities and Exchange Board of India chief M Damodaran said in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
A Hyderabad court on Wednesday posted the multi-crore Satyam Computer fraud case to February 17 for hearing on framing charges against the prime accused B Ramalinga Raju and nine others.
Satyam Computer Services founder B Ramalinga Raju had made trips to the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, to Visakhapatnam and even the United States, to convince the independent directors on the his board for acquisition of Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties, the two companies promoted by his family members.
It directed the Chanchalguda jail authorities to produce him before the court on December 30. The court had earlier issued summons to Raju, former managing director B Rama Raju and former chief financial officer Srinivas Vadlamani for examination on Thursday.
Raju, the prime accused in the Satyam fraud case, reached the CBI office at around 1000 hours and is likely to be questioned till afternoon, a senior CBI official told PTI.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Monday gave a version on Ramalinga Raju and Rama Raju's arrests, which contradicts what Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy said.
The Andhra Pradesh police, which arrested Raju and his brother Rama Raju on different charges including forgery and cheating on Friday night, said that the Sebi team would have to file a request with the Economic Offences Court to interrogate the two.
Raju, the prime accused in the accounting scam in the IT firm, made his fifth appearance in the XXI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court, after he got bail from the Andhra Pradesh high court.
ED filed a bulky prosecution investigation report before the XXI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate cum Special Sessions Judge here today seeking to "prosecute the accused for the offence of money laundering" under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
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