Satyam Computer has 10,000 excess employees, its new owner Tech Mahindra said on Friday.
The government is understood to have ordered a probe into Satyam Computer Services' controversial decision to buy two group-promoted companies and then reversing the deal within a few hours under pressure from investors.
While warning that many key clients and employees have threatened to quit the company due to its bad financial position, the government-appointed board of Satyam Computer also sought CLB's nod for allotment of preferential equity and increasing its authorised capital to Rs 120 crore (Rs 1.2 billion). The petition has been admitted by CLB, which would continue its hearing on Thursday.
The Andhra Legislative Assembly witnessed noisy scenes and constant exchange of words between the ruling Congress and the TDP members through the 90-minute reply by the chief minister.
GE and Malaysia Airlines have said they are continuing their existing contracts with Satyam. In the newly constituted board's first meeting, Deepak Parekh had said two of Satyam's global clients have vouched for the firm but declined to give further details. Meanwhile, over half a dozen of Satyam Computer's rivals have started exploring ways to take over the business from its various clients, a global technology consultancy firm has said.
Stocks of IT companies, including Wipro and Megasoft, took a beating at the bourses after it was revealed on Monday that the two firms were barred from doing businesses with the World Bank.
ANZ Bank has about 100 Satyam contractors who support IT projects. They are mainly based at the bank's Indian subsidiary, which employs about 2,000 people, it said. Last week, the bank told employees that it would develop a contingency plan although its relationship with Satyam was 'modest'.
The hearing of the forgery case filed by British mobile solution firm Upaid against Satyam Computer Services is not scheduled for hearing during this week.
Reports say that law firms in the US have begun filing class-action suits against Satyam and its beleaguered executives for fraud. Two such class action lawsuits -- one by a US law firm Izard Nobel LLP and the other by an investor in Satyam ADS -- have been filed in a district court in New York.
Fraud-hit Satyam Computer, which will soon have a new owner in Tech Mahindra, has lost about 5,000 employees during September-March period of the past fiscal.
Competitive bids to select the new owner for Satyam Computer Services, once India's fourth largest software company, will soon be announced.
Even the big and eager will find it quite a mouthful.
Satyam Computer on Thursday said its new owner Tech Mahindra's stake will go up to 50.42 per cent in the company following a preferential allotment of over 19.86 lakh shares.
IDBI Bank on Wednesday said it has an exposure of around Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion) to the Raju family-owned Maytas companies and is willing to consider any proposal for loans to Satyam Computer if the company approaches it.
A new class action lawsuit was filed in the US courts on Friday against Satyam Computer, which already has two more such suits against it there filed on behalf of thousands of investors in the American Depositary Shares of the Indian IT firm.
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
Meanwhile, company secretaries' body ICSI is also writing to the company secretary of Satyam Computer today to submit a report on corporate governance in a week. ICSI president Keyoor Bakshi said the government had earlier asked the institute to look into the revelations made by Satyam Computer's founder President Ramalinga Raju.
In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange, Satyam Computer said the last date by which letter of offer will be dispatched to the shareholders has been revised to June nine, from the earlier scheduled date of June three. Further, the last date of withdrawal by shareholders has also been revised to June 26, from the earlier June 27.
Public-sector insurer Life Insurance Corp (LIC), which holds 4.34 per cent in the troubled IT firm, Satyam Computer Services, on Thursday said it is assessing the situation and will take a decision on its holding accordingly.
Satyam Computer Services, in the eye of a storm for financial wrong doings, will be stripped off the Golden Peacock Award -- the very laurel it used for trumpeting its corporate governance norms when the controversy broke out.
IT firm Satyam Computer on Tuesday said its new owner Tech Mahindra has completed the process for acquiring 31 per cent stake in the company.
'It is revealed that an amount of Rs 1,425 crore out of Rs 1,744 crore loan obtained from NBFCs was transferred to the bank accounts of SCSL by 37 companies as loan over a period ranging from November 17, 2006 to October 30, 2008 to meet the expenses of the Satyam Computer Services Limited. Out of this amount, Rs 194 crore was returned by SCSL during October and November 2008 to 15 out of the 37 companies,' the CBI said in its chargesheet.
IT firm Tech Mahindra on Wednesday said its Rs 1,154.66 crore (Rs 11.54 billion) open offer for an additional 20 per cent stake in Satyam Computer will begin on June 12 and close on July 1, 2009.
Raju was arrested by the Crime Investigation Department of Andhra Pradesh Police two days later along with his brother.
Months before the scam at Satyam had come to light with confessions of its founder and former chairman B Ramalinga Raju, the Satyam scrip had hit a 52-week high of Rs 542 in May last year. The IT firm's market capitalisation had been over Rs 36,600 crore (Rs 366 billion) at that time.
Satyam Computer Services on Friday announced a consolidated net profit of Rs 580.85 crore (Rs 5.81 billion) for the second quarter ended September 30, a growth of 42 per cent over the corresponding period a year ago.
It can be noted that ever since Satyam Computers scandal came out in January 2009, the audit world, especially the Big Four, have been under fire from the regulators.
Satyam Computer Services has signed a memorandum of understanding with Maharashtra Airport Development Company to acquire 100 acres in the Nagpur special economic zone.
The knowledge economy demands that companies must put premium on their soft assets such as workers, brand value and goodwill, B Ramalinga Raju, chairman, Satyam Computer Services, said on Friday.
The Tamil Nadu government is expected to allot 50 acres of land on the Old Mahabalipuram Road, the IT corridor of Chennai, to Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
The NYSE-listed Satyam Computer Services on Tuesday said the company has the potential to grow from its current employee strength of 20,000 to 50,000 in a few years.
The 10 accused in the case include prime accused Satyam Computers founder and former chairman B Ramalinga Raju, his brother and Satyam's former MD B Rama Raju, ex-CFO Vadlamani Srinivas, former PwC auditors Subramani Gopalakrishnan and T Srinivas, Raju's another brother B Suryanarayana Raju, former employees G Ramakrishna, D Venkatpathi Raju and Ch Srisailam, and Satyam's former internal chief auditor V S Prabhakar Gupta.
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