The second charge sheet may highlight some more financial transaction made by Raju and some of his associates.
Mahindra Satyam merged with Tech Mahindra, creating a new entity with revenues of $2.7 billion.
Custody and probe still on after 15 months, 800 witnesses, 160,000 pages of evidence so far.
Things went from bad to worse since December 2008 for people who purchased bungalows, villas and apartments at Maytas Hill County, promoted by Maytas Properties Limited (MPL) -- the company run by B Rama Raju (Jr), the younger son of Satyam Computer Services founder and former chairman B Ramalinga Raju.
The company aims to book a profit of over Rs 250 crore from the open market sale, said two sources familiar with the development.
Satyam Computer Services did not consult Mendu Rammohan Rao, dean of the Indian School of Business and an independent director on the board of India's fourth largest IT services provider, when it called off the deal to acquire Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties following shareholder protests. Rao had chaired the board meeting that endorsed the company's proposal to buy the two firms linked to the family of Satyam's founder and chairman B Ramalinga Raju.
CBI on Wednesday announced that it will set up a multi-dimensional team to probe the 'unique' fraud, which involves Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju and his family members. While the spokesman remained evasive to questions on when the cases would be registered, CBI sources said records and other materials associated with the probe was being taken over by the agency.
The company has a total of 34,000 employees globally.
Hearing the Central Bureau of Investigation plea, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma on Tuesday cancelled the bails and asked all six persons to surrender by November 8.
Judge ruled that ther lawsuits failed to allege that the ex-directors recklessly failed to discover the fraud.
Satyam may have been loaded with funds of over Rs 5,000 crore as on September 2008, but it could have been left with just Rs 200 crore of maturable fixed deposits by the time IT firm's founder Ramalinga Raju revealed financial fraud on January 7.
India has assured the world that Satyam Computer, embroiled in fraud by founder Ramalinga Raju, will continue to provide its clients world class services.
Satyam's expanded board will meet on Saturday with the focus on raising funds to keep the business alive and may also have to deal with complaints on its choice of auditor to restate the company's financials.
After making Ramalinga Raju and the iconic IT firm he founded the butt of jokes, a bunch of trigger-happy IT whiz-kids have created a game 'Nail The Thief' where players are asked to hit the tainted Satyam founder with rotten eggs and win an iPod! Within days of its launch, the game has already been played more than 100,000 times, with a few playing it over and over again, as per the information on the website of the game.
"During this month, the SFIO will begin the prosecution on those or those areas of company laws that the SFIO is expected to and have been authorised to proceed with," Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told a press conference in New Delhi.
"Now if there is somebody who knows about the confession (and) wants to buy (or sell) at price 'X', should we as a regulator be coming in the way?" C B Bhave, chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India, told PTI. His first reaction on receipt of Raju's e-mail was, however, that of disbelief.
On February 17, 2009, Satyam case was handed over to CBI.
The tribunal posted the matter for further hearing in December, when it will decide whether to admit the pleas of the Raju brothers and others against Sebi order.
The latest penalties for insider trading follows an earlier disgorgement order passed by Sebi in July last year.
Out of the total dues, Satyam Computer, which has now been re-branded as Mahindra Satyam, alone owes a hefty Rs 532 crore (Rs 5.32 billion) to the Income Tax department
Satyam's employees had to undergo mental trauma, job uncertainty and financial problems, after many were forced to leave.
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.
Satyam Computers founder B Ramalinga Raju, main accused in the multi-crore accounting scam, is receiving a stream of visitors in the hospital, an indication that he is medically fit to attend the judicial proceedings
Raju pleaded for leniency citing his philanthropic activities.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd founder, B Ramalinga Raju, his brothers and their spouses have acquired 1,065 properties with a registered value of Rs 350 crore (Rs 3.50 billion). These include 109 properties in coastal Andhra, 11 in Karnataka, 40 in Nagpur, 29 in Chennai and 876 in Hyderabad and the surrounding Rangareddy district, according to sources tracking developments in the Central Bureau of Investigation probe of the Satyam case.
Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday said that the bail granted to B Ramalinga Raju, the tainted founder of Satyam Computer Services, will not hamper investigations.
Disgraced Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju, and IT firm's former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas moved their bail applications in the IV Additional Metropolitan Sessions judge in the Nampally criminal court complex. Their bail pleas were rejected by the designated court for CBI (XIV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate).
A five-member Sebi team arrived at the Chanchalguda Central Prison in Hyderabad on Wednesday to quiz Satyam Computer founder Ramalinga Raju and his brother and former Managing Director Rama Raju regarding the Rs 7,800-crore (Rs 78 billion) financial fraud in the IT firm.
The accused has been lodged in Chanchalguda central jail.
"The results, new client wins and business orders show good signs of our jobs being intact. With the media reports indicating that the company's annualised revenue run-rate would be much higher than expected, we are now confident that Satyam and its new owner will keep the people on the bench busy with new client engagements in the coming months," said a Satyam associate. A top official added, they're especially happy with the announcement of $380 million worth of new orders.
Raju, the only Indian on the list dominated by Americans, owes his place on the list to his disclosure in January about committing the country's biggest ever corporate fraud.
The court directed Raju, the prime accused in Satyam scam, and others to furnish personal bond of Rs 20,000 each and sureties of the like amount on or before December 22 and posted the matter to the same date.
Maytas had moved the court challenging termination of its contract by Utility Energytech and Engineers last month. Maytas had also sought a temporary stay to the termination, but Justice Anup Mohta of Bombay High Court last week refused to pass any interim order.
Satyam Computer's $75 million Directors and Officers insurance is unlikely to provide a cover against claims arising out of irregularities committed by the company's founder B Ramalinga Raju.
In what could bring some respite to Maytas Infra, which is caught in a controversy after Satyam aborted its bid to acquire it, the Andhra Pradesh government refused to see the Satyam issue as a factor that would impact the Rs 12,000-crore (Rs 120 billion) Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) project, which is being executed by a Maytas-led consortium.
The remand of Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju and seven others was extended by 14 days by a local court in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Counsel for Satyam Computer's founder B Ramalinga Raju on Wednesday objected to the manner in which market regulator Sebi was conducting the interrogation, saying his client was not allowed to have any legal assistance, and also threatened to challenge the process in the Supreme Court.
Three years after B Ramalinga Raju, the disgraced founder and chairman of Satyam Computer, announced the project, Mahindra Satyam dropped the project and surrendered the 26 acre-land to the state government.
On the basis of the complaint filed by Leena Mangat, the CB-CID had filed an FIR on Jan 9, 2009.
The legal noose has been tightening around the disgraced founder of Satyam Computers, B Ramalinga Raju, for nearly 22 months since he admitted in January last year to fudging the company's accounts to the tune of Rs 7,200 crore (Rs 72 billion).
