Andhra Pradesh High court on Monday reserved orders on the bail petition filed by B Ramalinga Raju, the prime accused in multi-crore Satyam Computers accounting scam.
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The court wants to examine all the accused, including B Ramalinga Raju, in regard to allegations mentioned against them by the CBI in two separate chargesheets before commencing the trial.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti, which reserved its verdict on two separate regular bail pleas of Sisodia in the corruption and money laundering cases, told the ED it cannot go by the assumption of bribe having been paid, and whatever protection an accused enjoys under law needs to be granted.
The stake of B Ramalinga Raju's family in Satyam Computer Services may have come down to just around four per cent from 8.61 per cent of the equity of Rs 134.10 crore as at the end of March 2008.
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The family of B Ramalinga Raju, the main accused in the multi-crore fraud at Satyam Computer, has approached a local court seeking a direction to de-freeze bank accounts and return seized electronic items.
The CBI has charged Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju, his brother B Rama Raju and eight others with creating fictitious customers and siphoning off Rs 430 crore (Rs 4.30 billion) from the IT firm.
Former Satyam executives Rama Raju and Vadlamani Srinivas, who are in judicial custody in connection with multi-crore rupee accounting fraud, have filed a petition in a local court seeking permission to use laptops inside jail.
Weeks after a Nicaragua-bound plane carrying Indians was grounded in France and later sent back to India, the Gujarat police have booked 14 agents on the charge of human trafficking for trying to send more than 60 persons from Gujarat to the US illegally via Mexico border, a senior official said.
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Under the CDR package, the company has sought a debt-restructuring of Rs 2,800 crore, including Rs 1,800 crore for Maytas Infra and another Rs 1,000 crore for various special-purpose vehicles. Sources say the investment companies may have diverted the Rs 400 crore to Satyam Computers. "As per the account trail, this loan of Rs 400 crore was finally given to Satyam Computer, routing through these investment arms," sources close to the CDR package said.
Sebi has also allowed Rama Raju and others, including Vadlamani Srinivas and G Ramakrishna, to inspect the documents available with the regulator on October 14 and has fixed the date for personal hearing on November 7. The other noticees in the matter include Ramalinga Raju and V S Prabhakara Gupta.
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.
A court allowed the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), a central government body, to question Satyam Computer Services founder B Ramalinga Raju, former managing director B Rama Raju, former chief financial officer Srinivas Vadlamani and two Price Waterhouse auditors, S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri, for six days from March 29.
Satyam Computer chairman B Ramalinga Raju can face seven years' imprisonment in addition to monetary penalties for forging accounts, breach of trust and misappropriating funds.
A local court on Friday extended the judicial remand of Satyam Computer founder B Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju, former CFO of the IT firm V Srinivas and two former auditors of PricewaterhouseCoopers by 14 days.
Dismissing the bail petitions of Raju brothers and V Srinivas, a local court in Hyderabad granted permission to the I-T department to examine and record the statement of B Ramaling Raju in the Rs 7,800 crore (Rs 78 billion) Satyam fraud case.
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Earlier, the Sebi had interrogated and recorded the statement of Raju and his brother and Rama Raju for three days from February 4 in Chanchalguda Jail. In a petition filed in the court of 6th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, the I-T department sought three days time to examine and record the statement of Raju.
CBI director Ashwani Kumar said the Satyam fraud was unique, as it was the founder, and not an outsider, who is the accused. According to sources, the fraud involves an amount that is much bigger than the Rs 7,800 crore (Rs 78 billion) estimated originally. It could be close to Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) based on over 7,000 fake invoices and forged documents retrieved by the agency.
The court had earlier asked Raju's lawyers to file an affidavit on whether the Satyam founder can be examined through a questionnaire.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with a plea of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in money laundering case.
The 56-year-old Raju admitted to fraud in January 2009 in the IT major.
With communal clashes claiming six lives in parts of Haryana close to Delhi, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered enhanced deployment of security personnel in sensitive areas and a crackdown on hate speech, but refused to stop the proposed rallies by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal in the National Capital Region.
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"A person cannot be punished twice for the same offence," a committee member said, adding that even BJP members took a "soft view" of the issue and were in favour of revocation of Chowdhury's suspension.
Mahindra Satyam merged with Tech Mahindra, creating a new entity with revenues of $2.7 billion.
According to sources, the family has pledged majority of its shareholding and real estate assets to various institutions. Two institutions, Maharashtra government's financial arm, Sicom, and IFCI, confirmed that Maytas promoters had pledged shares around a year ago to raise resources. IL&FS too has similar exposure to Maytas, said sources. However, this could not be confirmed.
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Raju Srivastav says, "I have been approached by Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee President Rita Bahuguna to contest from Allahabad-Phulpur and she has also briefed me about the demography of the constituency." "I was shocked when I first heard about the offer. I thought it was another joke, better than the ones I crack. But I was told that it was a serious offer and I should consider it seriously," the 45-year-old stand-up comedian told PTI in Mumbai on Sunday.
In an open defiance, Union Minister M M Pallam Raju on Wednesday questioned the government's hurry to push the Telangana bill and said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's disapproval of disruptions in Parliament was not "fair".
The CBI charges in the accounting fraud pertain to conspiracy, cheating, forgery, falsification of records and causing disappearance of evidence. There is no charge of misappropriation of funds. Of the Rs 715 crore made, Ramalinga Raju got Rs 27.91 crore and his brother and Satyam's former managing director, B Rama Raju, got Rs 26.68 crore, in the form of gifts from family, said the CBI. Besides, the Satyam founder 'offloaded the shares and received Rs 26,67,97,198.'
Breaking his silence on the embarrassing developments over the last two weeks, Raju said in an open letter to employees that 'please be assured that the Board and the leadership team are doing everything that's possible to get Satyam back on track'.