 "Court reserves verdict in Satyam case, tells accused to turn up on 15 September")
Hyderabad: A local court trying the case ofmulti-crore accounting fraud in erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Limited (SCSL) today reserved its judgement while asking all the accused to appear before it on 15 September.
“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.
[caption id=“attachment_93287” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Raju is among the accused in the case. AFP Image[/caption]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.
Touted as the country’s biggest accounting fraud, the scam came to light on 7 January, 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, 24 November, 2009 and 7 January, 2010), which were later clubbed into one.
Raju and others were charged with offences ranging from cheating, criminal conspiracy, forgery, breach of trust under relevant sections of IPC by way of inflating invoices and incomes, account falsification, faking fixed deposits, besides allegedly falsifying returns through violation of various I-T laws.
During the trial, the CBI alleged that the scam caused a loss of Rs 14,000 crore to Satyam shareholders, while the defence countered the charges, saying the accused were not responsible for the fraud and all the documents filed by the central agency relating to the case were fabricated and not
according to law.
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