The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today filed a supplementary chargesheet in the multi-crore Satyam scam against company founder chairman B Ramalinga Raju and others — including recently arrested internal auditor of the company V S Prabhakar Gupta. After almost 10 months of investigation, the CBI has found that Raju and his brothers bought a total of 1,065 properties — which includes around 6,000 acres, 40,000 sq yards of housing plots and 90,000 sq feet of built up area.

The chargesheet was filed in the designated court in Hyderabad accusing Raju and Gupta under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly indulging in siphoning off money to tax-haven countries, including Mauritius. As per the chargesheet, “... the accused forged board resolutions and unauthorisedly obtained loans to the tune of Rs 1,220 crore for Satyam Computer. They also prepared fake invoices worth Rs 430 crore”.

The chargesheet comes within days of the CBI team going to other countries to probe the alleged diversion of funds by Raju and re-routing back to India, official sources said. The funds were routed back to India via European nations as ‘investments’ in nearly 300 alleged fictitious companies floated in the name of his relatives, they said. The CBI, which is probing the Rs 10,000-crore accounting fraud at Satyam Computer Services, has found during investigations that Raju had diverted big amounts to Mauritius from where the money was brought back to India via several European countries, they added.

Sources said the amount of Rs 7,800 crore mentioned by Raju in his “confessional statement” earlier this year was far less than what is emerging out of the investigations. The supplementary chargesheet highlights some more financial transactions made by Raju and some of his associates, sources said. It contains 1,549 additional documents and submissions from 301 witnesses and 9 material objects. In all, it is a 55,000-page document with a 200-page supplementary chargesheet.

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