The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the multi-crore financial scam in Satyam Computer, will soon approach the US to get the details of the IT company’s disgraced founder B Ramalinga Raju’s bank account. Sources said that the CBI, which will be filing a chargesheet on Raju and other accused in the scam next week, will send rogatory letters to the US Justice Department seeking details of Raju’s accounts in Bank of Baroda’s New York branch.

Officials say that the CBI would also seek the help of the US Treasury Department to obtain details of Raju’s accounts, believed to be in Bank of America. The details of the accounts, after being procured, would be submitted before the court in Hyderabad later, sources said. The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) had submitted a petition in a Hyderabad court ‘as regards to current account maintained in Bank of Baroda’s New York branch, and a non-existent balance of Rs 1,733 crore has been found till date’. A supplementary chargesheet would be filed after receiving information from abroad.

CBI had said last night that the first chargesheet in Satyam case would be filed on April 9 against Raju and other accused, a process which may lead to beginning of trial in the multi-crore accounting fraud case. “We will be filing a chargesheet on April 9 but the investigations into the case would continue even after that,” CBI Director Ashwani Kumar had said and had added that the confession made by Raju would also form a part of evidence in the chargesheet.