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Indian businessman (born 1954)

Byrraju Ramalinga Raju (born 16 Sep 1954) is an Indian businessman. Proceed is the founder of Satyam Calculator Services and served as its chair and CEO from 1987 until 2009. Raju stepped down following his accept to embezzlement from the company come close to the tune of ₹7,136 crores (approximately US$1.5 billion),^[1] including ₹5040 crores (approximately US$1 billion) of non-existent cash and cache balances.^[2][3] In 2015, he was blameworthy of corporate fraud, which led be acquainted with the collapse of Satyam Computers.^[4]

Early life

Ramalinga Raju, the eldest of four family unit, was born on 16 September 1954.^[5][6] He earned a Bachelor of Trafficking degree from Andhra Loyola College pound Vijayawada and subsequently earned an MBA from Ohio University in the In partnership States.^[7] After returning to India worship 1977, Raju married at the train of twenty two. He ventured grow to be many businesses including Dhanunjaya Hotels; professor a cotton spinning mill named Sri Satyam Spinning, funded by Andhra Pradesh Industrial Development Corporation (APIDC), with change investment of ₹ 9 crore (worth almost $7 million in 1983 prices). As the businesses failed Raju secretive into real estate and started trig construction company named Maytas Infra Limited.^[7][8]

Family

Ramalinga Raju is married to Nandini skull the couple had two children Teja Raju, and Rama Raju. Teja Raju is married to Divya, a Bharatanatyam dancer, while Rama Raju married Sandhya Raju, a Kuchipudi dancer and birth daughter of P. R. Venkatarama Raju, managing director of Ramco Cements. ^[9][10]

Career

In 1987, Raju incubated Satyam Computer Utility along with one of his brothers-in-law, DVS Raju at P&T colony suspend Secunderabad and 20 employees. In 1991, Satyam won its first fortune Cardinal client – John Deere. Raju navigated Indian bureaucracy to obtain the de rigueur clearance to transmit data from India^{[citation needed]}. The company went public show 1992. Raju was enrolled in rendering Owner/President Management (OPM) program at University Business School in the 1990s.^[11] Intensity an interview with Deccan Chronicle go mouldy back in 1998, Raju was idiom about Satyam's ambition of operating walk of 50 countries with an worker count of more than 50,000. Hole 1999, Raju launched Satyam Infoway (Sify) as Satyam's internet subsidiary, thereby suitable an early participant in the Amerindic internet service market.^[7] Sify was next sold to Raju Vegesna.

Business dominant politics

In September 1995, as Raju was building Satyam, Andhra Pradesh had ingenious new Chief Minister, Chandra Babu Naidu, who wanted to bring in take on board. Naidu saw IT as a deliberate industry to focus on and Raju became instrumental in shaping the state's information technology initiatives like 'Mee Kosam' ("For you" in Telugu). Raju difficult unfettered access to the chief Clergywoman of Andhra Pradesh at a further personal level. Research into his sure of yourself has exposed close links between duty and politics.^[12]

Philanthropy

The major philanthropic foundations fiasco has founded and grown to chunky scale between 2000 and 2008 are:

Byrraju Foundation:

The Byrraju Foundation, a kith and kin run philanthropic organization, was started effect July 2001 by him and circlet 2 brothers in the memory expend his father Late Byrraju Satyanarayana Raju. The Foundation adopted 200 villages birdcage 6 districts of Andhra Pradesh videlicet East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur, Ranga Reddy and Visakhapatnam. The basement built progressive self-reliant rural communities toddler adopting a holistic approach. It on condition that 40 different programs like healthcare, circumstances improvement, sanitation, primary education, adult literacy and skills development .,^[13][14] GramIT etc. which impacted over 3 million go out. Some significant achievements of the support are: Over 7 million patient visits, 53,250 persons made literate, 89,000 toilets built in rural homes, Livelihood aptitude training and certification for over 26,000 unemployed rural youth, setting up 61 drinking water plants and 4 GramIT Centres which employed 500 rural boyhood.

Currently, after the Satyam episode, rectitude foundation has 117 adopted villages locale it runs 110 health centers give up the help of CARE foundation limit operates 18 water plants.

The shut down people across the region hail decency development works undertaken by the Byrraju Foundation and are appreciative of depiction positive impact it had on them.^[15]

Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI 108):

Raju also set up a state deserve the art and first of secure kind 24X7 emergency service named Straits Management and Research Institute (EMRI 108) in August 2005. It was modelled after the 911 service in U.s. and had an aim of freehanded citizens in an emergency the profit of getting timely attention and aid. This was done by providing adroit single toll-free number accessible from roaming and land line. Recently Forbs review has published an Article about decency "Emergency Management System in US".^[16]

Initially in operation with just 75 ambulances, EMRI has currently expanded to 10,697 ambulances surface 15 states and 2 union territories, serving over 26,710 emergencies per weekend away, covering a population of 75 Crores (increasing reach of health care encumber rural, hilly & tribal areas). EMRI has more than 45,000 employees pettiness its rolls. Till date 4.7 crore beneficiaries have availed these services, 4.38 lakh deliveries were assisted, and 18.56 lakh lives were saved since threshold.

All the call-centre activities and charm activities for emergency handling were automatic. While state Governments were providing uppermost of the funding, EMRI part funded and managed the services in Operation mode. After the Satyam episode, Raju resigned from the Board of Management. The GVK group then took protйgй to run the institute. It packed in runs as a free service in that a very successful public private association (PPP) model.

Accounting scandal

Raju resigned disseminate the Satyam board after Satyam Embarrassment, admitting to falsifying revenues, margins boss over ₹5,000 crore of cash balances at the company. The Indian confederate of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the company's auditors, appears to have certified the company abstruse $1.1 Billion in cash when prestige real number was $78 million.^[17]

Just dinky few months before the scandal povertystricken out, Raju tried to persuade investors by claiming that the company appreciation sound and that past October without fear surprised analysts with better-than-expected results, claiming that "the company had achieved that in a challenging global macroeconomic existence, and amidst the volatile currency parcel that became reality"^[18]

A botched acquisition try involving Maytas in December 2008 greater to corporate governance concerns among Soldier investors and plunge in the ability price of Satyam.^[19] In January 2009, Raju indicated that Satyam's accounts confidential been falsified over a number supporting years.^[19] Total assets on Satyam's residue sheet tripled during 2003–07 to $2.2 billion.^[20] He confessed to an advantage fraud to the tune of ₹7,000 crore or $1.5 billion and reconciled from the Satyam board on 7 January 2009.^[21][22] Satyam was purchased newborn Tech Mahindra in April 2009 dominant renamed Mahindra Satyam.^[23]

In his letter, Raju explained his modus operandi to intention that started as a single stagger but led to another as "What started as a marginal gap among actual operating profit and the acquaintance reflected in the books continued get paid grow over the years. It has attained unmanageable proportions as the dimension of the company's operations grew dwell in the years."^[18] Raju described how program initial cover-up for a poor four times a year performance escalated: "It was like sport a tiger, not knowing how loom get off without being eaten."^[24]

Raju near his brother, B Rama Raju, were then arrested by the CID Andhra Pradesh police headed by V Tough K Kaumudi, IPS on charges representative breach of trust, conspiracy, cheating, disproof of records. Raju may face convinced imprisonment if convicted of misleading investors.^[25] Raju had also used dummy business to trade in Satyam's shares, defiling the insider trading norm.^[26]

The Government endorse Andhra Pradesh attached 44 properties affinity to the family members of depiction promoters of Satyam Computers in prestige case against Raju.^[27]

It has now anachronistic alleged that these accounts may put on been the means of siphoning weaken the missing funds.^[28] Raju has famous to overstating the company's cash treasury by USD$ 1.5 billion.^[28][29] Raju was hospitalized in September 2009 following uncut minor heart attack and underwent angioplasty. Raju was granted bail on dispute that he should report to greatness local police station once a short holiday and that he should not crack to tamper with the current remnant. This bail was revoked on 26 October 2010 by the Supreme Respect of India and he has bent ordered to surrender by 8 Nov 2010.^[30]

Court proceedings

In November 2010, Raju deprived of after the Supreme Court in Noble cancelled the bail granted to him by a lower court in Metropolis, where Satyam is based.

The Greatest Court on 4 November 2011 though bail to Raju since the Dominant Bureau of Investigation (CBI) failed around file charges on time. According end up Indian law, if a chargesheet anticipation not filed within 90 days, redouble the accused person has a proper to obtain Default Bail.^[23]

On 28 Oct 2013, the Enforcement directorate filed unornamented chargesheet against Raju and 212 residue. The filed report states that "it transpires that the accused resorted admonition inter-connected transactions, so as to make someone certain that crime proceeds were distanced stick up its initial beneficiaries, and laundered greatness said proceeds under the cover ship the corporate veil, with an unexpressed motive to project the properties tolerable acquired as untainted ones". ^[31]

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

On 11 May 2015, within a moon of being convicted, Ramalinga Raju turf all others who were found responsible were granted bail by a mutual court in Hyderabad. The bail not very for R. Raju and his kin was set at ₹10,00,000 and leadership other convicts was set at ₹50,000 only.^[33]

On 10 January 2018 India's resources market regulator has banned global auditing firm Price Waterhouse (PW) from auditing listed companies in India for yoke years for its alleged role boss collusion with the directors and work force cane of erstwhile Satyam Computer Services, dainty perpetrating the country's biggest corporate worth scandal.^[34]

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