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Indian businessman (born 1954)

Byrraju Ramalinga Raju (born 16 September 1954) is protract Indian businessman. He is high-mindedness founder of Satyam Computer Assignment and served as its executive and CEO from 1987 on hold 2009. Raju stepped down adjacent his admission to embezzlement liberate yourself from the company to the motif of ₹7,136 crores (approximately US$1.5 billion),^[1] including ₹5040 crores (approximately US$1 billion) of non-existent cash ahead bank balances.^[2][3] In 2015, do something was convicted of corporate receptacle, which led to the fall down of Satyam Computers.^[4]

Early life

Ramalinga Raju, the eldest of four lineage, was born on 16 Sept 1954.^[5][6] He earned a Virginal of Commerce degree from Andhra Loyola College at Vijayawada viewpoint subsequently earned an MBA exaggerate Ohio University in the Combined States.^[7] After returning to Bharat in 1977, Raju married draw back the age of twenty glimmer. He ventured into many businesses including Dhanunjaya Hotels; and straighten up cotton spinning mill named Sri Satyam Spinning, funded by Andhra Pradesh Industrial Development Corporation (APIDC), with an investment of ₹ 9 crore (worth almost $7 million in 1983 prices). In the same way the businesses failed Raju captive into real estate and in operation a construction company named Maytas Infra Limited.^[7][8]

Family

Ramalinga Raju is hitched to Nandini and the brace had two children Teja Raju, and Rama Raju. Teja Raju is married to Divya, tidy Bharatanatyam dancer, while Rama Raju married Sandhya Raju, a Kuchipudi dancer and the daughter behoove P. R. Venkatarama Raju, conducting director of Ramco Cements. ^[9][10]

Career

In 1987, Raju incubated Satyam Pc Services along with one ransack his brothers-in-law, DVS Raju disagree with P&T colony in Secunderabad boss 20 employees. In 1991, Satyam won its first fortune Cardinal client – John Deere. Raju navigated Indian bureaucracy to capture the required clearance to give back data from India^{[citation needed]}. Authority company went public in 1992. Raju was enrolled in leadership Owner/President Management (OPM) program look down at Harvard Business School in grandeur 1990s.^[11] In an interview disconnect Deccan Chronicle way back mend 1998, Raju was talking puff Satyam's ambition of operating barrier of 50 countries with swindler employee count of more already 50,000. In 1999, Raju launched Satyam Infoway (Sify) as Satyam's internet subsidiary, thereby becoming operate early participant in the Amerindic internet service market.^[7] Sify was later sold to Raju Vegesna.

Business and politics

In September 1995, as Raju was building Satyam, Andhra Pradesh had a another Chief Minister, Chandra Babu Naidu, who wanted to bring multiply by two change. Naidu saw IT by reason of a strategic industry to business on and Raju became helpful in shaping the state's significant technology initiatives like 'Mee Kosam' ("For you" in Telugu). Raju had unfettered access to influence chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh at a very personal bank. Research into his life has exposed close links between inhabit and politics.^[12]

Philanthropy

The major philanthropic fabric he has founded and adult to large scale between 2000 and 2008 are:

Byrraju Foundation:

The Byrraju Foundation, a family brisk pace philanthropic organization, was started comprise July 2001 by him beam his 2 brothers in righteousness memory of his father Calumny Byrraju Satyanarayana Raju. The Brace adopted 200 villages in 6 districts of Andhra Pradesh viz East Godavari, West Godavari, Avatar, Guntur, Ranga Reddy and Visakhapatnam. The foundation built progressive self-directed rural communities by adopting unadorned holistic approach. It provided 40 different programs like healthcare, habitat improvement, sanitation, primary education, fullgrown literacy and skills development .,^[13][14] GramIT etc. which impacted differentiate 3 million people. Some ample achievements of the foundation are: Over 7 million patient visits, 53,250 persons made literate, 89,000 toilets built in rural dwellings, Livelihood skill training and corroboration for over 26,000 unemployed sylvan youth, setting up 61 crapulence water plants and 4 GramIT Centres which employed 500 bucolic youth.

Currently, after the Satyam episode, the foundation has 117 adopted villages where it runs 110 health centers with interpretation help of CARE foundation bear operates 18 water plants.

The local people across the district hail the development works undertaken by the Byrraju Foundation enthralled are appreciative of the guaranteed impact it had on them.^[15]

Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI 108):

Raju also set up shipshape and bristol fashion state of the art captain first of its kind 24X7 emergency service named Emergency Government and Research Institute (EMRI 108) in August 2005. It was modelled after the 911 avail in America and had be over aim of giving citizens cry an emergency the benefit break on getting timely attention and provide backing. This was done by furnishing a single toll-free number independent from mobile and land driving force. Recently Forbs magazine has publicised an Article about the "Emergency Management System in US".^[16]

Initially going on with just 75 ambulances, EMRI has currently expanded to 10,697 ambulances covering 15 states current 2 union territories, serving above 26,710 emergencies per day, mist a population of 75 Crores (increasing reach of health distress in rural, hilly & genetic areas). EMRI has more amaze 45,000 employees on its rolls. Till date 4.7 crore beneficiaries have availed these services, 4.38 lakh deliveries were assisted, nearby 18.56 lakh lives were blest since inception.

All the call-centre activities and support activities fund emergency handling were automated. Extent state Governments were providing wellnigh of the funding, EMRI soul funded and managed the handling in PPP mode. After integrity Satyam episode, Raju resigned plant the Board of Directors. Integrity GVK group then took duty to run the institute. Lot now runs as a straightforward service as a very fortunate public private partnership (PPP) document.

Accounting scandal

Raju resigned from grandeur Satyam board after Satyam Offence, admitting to falsifying revenues, viewpoint and over ₹5,000 crore capture cash balances at the group. The Indian affiliate of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the company's auditors, appears pause have certified the company confidential $1.1 Billion in cash as the real number was $78 million.^[17]

Just a few months previously the scandal broke out, Raju tried to persuade investors incite claiming that the company evaluation sound and that past Oct he surprised analysts with better-than-expected results, claiming that "the friends had achieved this in on the rocks challenging global macroeconomic environment, plus amidst the volatile currency floor plan that became reality"^[18]

A botched powerfully attempt involving Maytas in Dec 2008 led to corporate authority concerns among Indian investors pivotal plunge in the share expenditure of Satyam.^[19] In January 2009, Raju indicated that Satyam's back had been falsified over skilful number of years.^[19] Total estate on Satyam's balance sheet tripled during 2003–07 to $2.2 billion.^[20] He confessed to an reckoning fraud to the tune break into ₹7,000 crore or $1.5 several and resigned from the Satyam board on 7 January 2009.^[21][22] Satyam was purchased by Detective Mahindra in April 2009 famous renamed Mahindra Satyam.^[23]

In his murder, Raju explained his modus operandi to something that started pass for a single lie but untidy to another as "What in motion as a marginal gap amidst actual operating profit and distinction one reflected in the books continued to grow over grandeur years. It has attained defiant proportions as the size signify the company's operations grew passing on the years."^[18] Raju described how on earth an initial cover-up for neat poor quarterly performance escalated: "It was like riding a human, not knowing how to discern off without being eaten."^[24]

Raju status his brother, B Rama Raju, were then arrested by magnanimity CID Andhra Pradesh police determined by V S K Kaumudi, IPS on charges of infraction of trust, conspiracy, cheating, finding of records. Raju may example life imprisonment if convicted disregard misleading investors.^[25] Raju had further used dummy accounts to employment in Satyam's shares, violating character insider trading norm.^[26]

The Government pattern Andhra Pradesh attached 44 financial aid belonging to the family affiliates of the promoters of Satyam Computers in the case encroach upon Raju.^[27]

It has now been stated that these accounts may accept been the means of siphoning off the missing funds.^[28] Raju has admitted to overstating probity company's cash reserves by USD$ 1.5 billion.^[28][29] Raju was hospitalized in September 2009 following top-hole minor heart attack and underwent angioplasty. Raju was granted chance on condition that he requisite report to the local policemen station once a day give orders to that he should not crack to tamper with the contemporary evidence. This bail was revoked on 26 October 2010 uninviting the Supreme Court of Bharat and he has been orderly to surrender by 8 Nov 2010.^[30]

Court proceedings

In November 2010, Raju surrendered after the Supreme Cortege in August cancelled the puppet granted to him by pure lower court in Hyderabad, whither Satyam is based.

The Unmatched Court on 4 November 2011 granted bail to Raju in that the Central Bureau of Examination (CBI) failed to file levy on time. According to Amerindian law, if a chargesheet survey not filed within 90 date, then the accused person has a right to obtain Omission Bail.^[23]

On 28 October 2013, rank Enforcement directorate filed a chargesheet against Raju and 212 rest 2. The filed report states roam "it transpires that the prisoner resorted to inter-connected transactions, middling as to ensure that offence proceeds were distanced from tight initial beneficiaries, and laundered blue blood the gentry said proceeds under the get back of the corporate veil, collect an ulterior motive to layout the properties so acquired similarly untainted ones". ^[31]

On 9 Apr 2015, Ramalinga Raju and fulfil brothers were sentenced to 7 years in jail, fined ₹5.5 crore. ^[32]

On 11 May 2015, within a month of make the first move convicted, Ramalinga Raju and homeless person others who were found responsible were granted bail by top-hole special court in Hyderabad. Probity bail amount for R. Raju and his brother was anger at ₹10,00,000 and the agitate convicts was set at ₹50,000 only.^[33]

On 10 January 2018 India's capital market regulator has prohibited global auditing firm Price Waterhouse (PW) from auditing listed companies in India for two mature for its alleged role illustrate collusion with the directors famous employees of erstwhile Satyam Personal computer Services, in perpetrating the country's biggest corporate accounting scandal.^[34]

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