




The total amount that these entities need to pay is about Rs 1,747.5 crore assuming they pay it back by January 2024 when the deadline is set. This includes an interest amount of Rs 1123 crore for about 15 years.
As SEBI and other regulatory bodies try their best to keep such scammers and fraudsters at bay, we hope that soon such scams become a thing of the past.
Early last month, the SAT had overturned SEBI's order in the Satyam Computer Services fraud case.
On January 7, 2009, Byrraju Ramalinga Raju, founder and chairman of Satyam, wrote to SEBI and the company's shareholders making an admission which shocked the global corporate community
Maytas Infra was later acquired by IL&FS Engineering and Construction Company. The tribunal's decision follows an order passed by the Supreme Court in May this year, wherein it was held that several entities, including B Teja Raju, could not be considered as insiders in the Satyam matter.
The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) today allowed Price-Waterhouse to re-examine witnesses involved in the Satyam scandal and thier statements, giving a green signal to its appeal against the SEBI order.