Court reserves judgement in Satyam case

August 11, 2014 01:56 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 05:44 pm IST - Hyderabad

A local court trying the case of multi-crore accounting fraud in erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Limited (SCSL) reserved its judgement while asking all the accused to appear before it on September 15.

“The court has not given any date for judgement. The judgement is reserved. As and when it is ready, it will be notified and pronounced. The accused were asked to appear on September 15,” CBI special public prosecutor K. Surender said.

The ten 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.

The trial in Satyam fraud case had concluded in second half of June before the special court, which examined 216 witnesses and marked 3,038 documents during the course of the hearing.

>Read: Pursuing Satyam

Touted as the country’s biggest accounting fraud, the scam came to light on January 7, 2009 after Raju allegedly confessed to manipulating his company’s account books and inflating profits over many years to the tune of several crores of rupees.

Raju was arrested by the Crime Investigation Department of Andhra Pradesh Police two days later along with his brother.

In February that year, CBI took over the investigation and filed three charge sheets (on April 7, 2009, November 24, 2009 and January 7, 2010), which were later clubbed into one.

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