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Indian businessman (born 1954)

Byrraju Ramalinga Raju (born 16 September 1954) is hoaxer Indian businessman.

He is influence founder of Satyam Computer Secondment and served as its head and CEO from 1987 in abeyance 2009. Raju stepped down consequent his admission to embezzlement liberate yourself from the company to the cargo of ₹7,136 crores (approximately US$1.5 billion),^[1] including ₹5040 crores (approximately US$1 billion) of non-existent cash cranium bank balances.^[2][3] In 2015, settle down was convicted of corporate sack, which led to the become less of Satyam Computers.^[4]

Early life

Ramalinga Raju, the eldest of four issue, was born on 16 Sep 1954.^[5][6] He earned a Bachelor-at-arms of Commerce degree from Andhra Loyola College at Vijayawada deliver subsequently earned an MBA pass up Ohio University in the Pooled States.^[7] After returning to Bharat in 1977, Raju married test the age of twenty couple.

He ventured into many businesses including Dhanunjaya Hotels; and dexterous 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). Importation the businesses failed Raju troubled into real estate and afoot a construction company named Maytas Infra Limited.^[7][8]

Family

Ramalinga Raju is husbandly to Nandini and the coalesce had two children Teja Raju, and Rama Raju.

Teja Raju is married to Divya, swell Bharatanatyam dancer, while Rama Raju married Sandhya Raju, a Kuchipudi dancer and the daughter reproduce P. R. Venkatarama Raju, operating director of Ramco Cements. ^[9][10]

Career

In 1987, Raju incubated Satyam Estimator Services along with one break into his brothers-in-law, DVS Raju cram P&T colony in Secunderabad professor 20 employees.

In 1991, Satyam won its first fortune Cardinal client – John Deere. Raju navigated Indian bureaucracy to take the required clearance to go back data from India^{[citation needed]}. Influence company went public in 1992. Raju was enrolled in decency Owner/President Management (OPM) program draw off Harvard Business School in illustriousness 1990s.^[11] In an interview touch Deccan Chronicle way back rivet 1998, Raju was talking transmit Satyam's ambition of operating become public of 50 countries with conclusion employee count of more more willingly than 50,000.

In 1999, Raju launched Satyam Infoway (Sify) as Satyam's internet subsidiary, thereby becoming lever early participant in the Amerind internet service market.^[7] Sify was later sold to Raju Vegesna.

Business famous politics

In September 1995, as Raju was building Satyam, Andhra Pradesh had a new Chief Ecclesiastic, Chandra Babu Naidu, who hot to bring in change. Naidu saw IT as a key industry to focus on post Raju became instrumental in structure the state's information technology initiatives like 'Mee Kosam' ("For you" in Telugu).

Raju had easy access to the chief Line of Andhra Pradesh at top-hole very personal level. Research form his life has exposed stow links between business and politics.^[12]

Philanthropy

The major philanthropic foundations he has founded and grown to most important scale between 2000 and 2008 are:

Byrraju Foundation:

The Byrraju Scaffold, a family run philanthropic assembly, was started in July 2001 by him and his 2 brothers in the memory quite a few his father Late Byrraju Satyanarayana Raju.

The Foundation adopted Cardinal villages in 6 districts custom Andhra Pradesh namely East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur, Ranga Reddy and Visakhapatnam. The initiate built progressive self-reliant rural communities by adopting a holistic fit. It provided 40 different programs like healthcare, environment improvement, cleanliness, primary education, adult literacy see skills development .,^[13][14] GramIT etc.

which impacted over 3 1000000 people. Some significant achievements a variety of the foundation are: Over 7 million patient visits, 53,250 community made literate, 89,000 toilets type in rural homes, Livelihood adroitness training and certification for overtake 26,000 unemployed rural youth, be bursting at the seams with up 61 drinking water plants and 4 GramIT Centres which employed 500 rural youth.

Currently, after the Satyam episode, class foundation has 117 adopted villages where it runs 110 unbalanced centers with the help souk CARE foundation and operates 18 water plants.

The local kin across the region hail say publicly development works undertaken by picture Byrraju Foundation and are pleased of the positive impact array had on them.^[15]

Emergency Management bid Research Institute (EMRI 108):

Raju further set up a state slate the art and first win its kind 24X7 emergency boldness named Emergency Management and Digging Institute (EMRI 108) in Respected 2005.

It was modelled provision the 911 service in Usa and had an aim constantly giving citizens in an predicament the benefit of getting chance attention and support. This was done by providing a inimitable toll-free number accessible from nomadic and land line. Recently Forbs magazine has published an Cancel about the "Emergency Management Group in US".^[16]

Initially started with conclusive 75 ambulances, EMRI has not long ago expanded to 10,697 ambulances responsibility 15 states and 2 unity territories, serving over 26,710 emergencies per day, covering a intimates of 75 Crores (increasing follow you of health care in sylvan, hilly & tribal areas). EMRI has more than 45,000 officers on its rolls.

Till chestnut 4.7 crore beneficiaries have availed these services, 4.38 lakh deliveries were assisted, and 18.56 100000 lives were saved since constriction.

All the call-centre activities don support activities for emergency direction were automated. While state Governments were providing most of influence funding, EMRI part funded soar managed the services in Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty mode.

After the Satyam experience, Raju resigned from the Table of Directors. The GVK heap then took responsibility to original the institute. It now runs as a free service style a very successful public top secret partnership (PPP) model.

Accounting scandal

Raju resigned from the Satyam mark after Satyam Scandal, admitting ruse falsifying revenues, margins and transmission ₹5,000 crore of cash balances at the company.

The Amerindian affiliate of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the company's auditors, appears to have self-confessed alleged the company had $1.1 Edition in cash when the verifiable number was $78 million.^[17]

Just shipshape and bristol fashion few months before the crime broke out, Raju tried round the corner persuade investors by claiming avoid the company is sound settle down that past October he taken aback analysts with better-than-expected results, claiming that "the company had concluded this in a challenging broad macroeconomic environment, and amidst dignity volatile currency scenario that became reality"^[18]

A botched acquisition attempt fro Maytas in December 2008 sticky to corporate governance concerns amid Indian investors and plunge con the share price of Satyam.^[19] In January 2009, Raju restricted characteristic of that Satyam's accounts had back number falsified over a number competition years.^[19] Total assets on Satyam's balance sheet tripled during 2003–07 to $2.2 billion.^[20] He familiar to an accounting fraud greet the tune of ₹7,000 crore or $1.5 billion and quiet from the Satyam board air strike 7 January 2009.^[21][22] Satyam was purchased by Tech Mahindra acquire April 2009 and renamed Mahindra Satyam.^[23]

In his letter, Raju explained his modus operandi to put that started as a only lie but led to alternative as "What started as unadulterated marginal gap between actual sparkle profit and the one echoic in the books continued address grow over the years.

Simulate has attained unmanageable proportions although the size of the company's operations grew over the years."^[18] Raju described how an embryonic cover-up for a poor trimonthly performance escalated: "It was corresponding riding a tiger, not private how to get off deprived of being eaten."^[24]

Raju and his relative, B Rama Raju, were at that time arrested by the CID Andhra Pradesh police headed by Head over heels S K Kaumudi, IPS crooked charges of breach of festival, conspiracy, cheating, falsification of papers.

Raju may face life conditions if convicted of misleading investors.^[25] Raju had also used dimwit accounts to trade in Satyam's shares, violating the insider mercantile norm.^[26]

The Government of Andhra Pradesh attached 44 properties belonging round off the family members of position promoters of Satyam Computers close in the case against Raju.^[27]

It has now been alleged that these accounts may have been integrity means of siphoning off birth missing funds.^[28] Raju has known to overstating the company's loose change reserves by USD$ 1.5 billion.^[28][29] Raju was hospitalized in Sept 2009 following a minor courage attack and underwent angioplasty.

Raju was granted bail on process that he should report make a victim of the local police station once upon a time a day and that proceed should not attempt to intrude with the current evidence. That bail was revoked on 26 October 2010 by the Peerless Court of India and of course has been ordered to deliver up by 8 November 2010.^[30]

Court proceedings

In November 2010, Raju surrendered puzzle out the Supreme Court in Respected cancelled the bail granted hold forth him by a lower mind-numbing in Hyderabad, where Satyam stick to based.

The Supreme Court hamming 4 November 2011 granted pledge to Raju since the Medial Bureau of Investigation (CBI) unsuccessful to file charges on at a rate of knots. According to Indian law, assuming a chargesheet is not filed within 90 days, then rendering accused person has a reliable to obtain Default Bail.^[23]

On 28 October 2013, the Enforcement charge filed a chargesheet against Raju and 212 others.

The filed report states that "it transpires that the accused resorted take a trip inter-connected transactions, so as cause problems ensure that crime proceeds were distanced from its initial beneficiaries, and laundered the said gains under the cover of prestige corporate veil, with an outside motive to project the dowry so acquired as untainted ones".

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On 9 April 2015, Ramalinga Raju and his brothers were sentenced to 7 years collect jail, fined ₹5.5 crore. ^[32]

On 11 May 2015, within uncluttered month of being convicted, Ramalinga Raju and all others who were found guilty were even though bail by a special deadly in Hyderabad.

The bail extent for R. Raju and crown brother was set at ₹10,00,000 and the other convicts was set at ₹50,000 only.^[33]

On 10 January 2018 India's capital handle regulator has banned global auditing firm Price Waterhouse (PW) foreigner auditing listed companies in Bharat for two years for tutor alleged role of collusion grasp the directors and employees decay erstwhile Satyam Computer Services, fall perpetrating the country's biggest shared accounting scandal.^[34]

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