Satyam Computers was founded in 1987 and grew to become the 4th fastest growing IT company in India, reaching revenues of 10,000 crores and employing 40,000 people. However, the founder Ramalinga Raju started falsifying accounts by claiming 53,000 employees while only paying 40,000. He was withdrawing 20 crore rupees monthly for the non-existent 13,000 employees. In 2009, the scam came to light when Raju confessed, leading to his arrest and a plunge in Satyam's stock price. Later, A.S. Murthy was appointed new CEO and Mahindra & Mahindra acquired a 46% stake in Satyam through a public auction process.
Satyam Computers was founded in 1987 and grew to become the 4th fastest growing IT company in India, reaching revenues of 10,000 crores and employing 40,000 people. However, the founder Ramalinga Raju started falsifying accounts by claiming 53,000 employees while only paying 40,000. He was withdrawing 20 crore rupees monthly for the non-existent 13,000 employees. In 2009, the scam came to light when Raju confessed, leading to his arrest and a plunge in Satyam's stock price. Later, A.S. Murthy was appointed new CEO and Mahindra & Mahindra acquired a 46% stake in Satyam through a public auction process.
Satyam Computers was founded in 1987 and grew to become the 4th fastest growing IT company in India, reaching revenues of 10,000 crores and employing 40,000 people. However, the founder Ramalinga Raju started falsifying accounts by claiming 53,000 employees while only paying 40,000. He was withdrawing 20 crore rupees monthly for the non-existent 13,000 employees. In 2009, the scam came to light when Raju confessed, leading to his arrest and a plunge in Satyam's stock price. Later, A.S. Murthy was appointed new CEO and Mahindra & Mahindra acquired a 46% stake in Satyam through a public auction process.
Satyam Computers was founded in 1987 and grew to become the 4th fastest growing IT company in India, reaching revenues of 10,000 crores and employing 40,000 people. However, the founder Ramalinga Raju started falsifying accounts by claiming 53,000 employees while only paying 40,000. He was withdrawing 20 crore rupees monthly for the non-existent 13,000 employees. In 2009, the scam came to light when Raju confessed, leading to his arrest and a plunge in Satyam's stock price. Later, A.S. Murthy was appointed new CEO and Mahindra & Mahindra acquired a 46% stake in Satyam through a public auction process.
>Its CEO was Mr. A.S. Murthy Introduction Of Satyam Computers >Satyam was established in 1987. >It was the 4 th fastest growing IT company in India. >It had 9 % market share
>Revenue was around 10,000 Crores
What did really happen in Satyam > Ramalinga Raju started losing his attention from the company >The two sons of Raju were investing in the real estate business and their real estate business was not in good shape. So, Raju started using the manpower and other resources for the Satyam Company for the welfare of his sons real estate business
What happened? That the actual number of employees was only 40,000 and not 53,000 as reported earlier and that Mr. Raju had been allegedly withdrawing INR 20 crore rupees every month for paying these 13,000 non-existent employees [16] .
What happened?
>Ramalinga Raju had showed false employees in his company Satyam computers
>And Ramalinga Raju was withdrawing salaries of those false employees which really did not exist in the company that were 53,000 as shown in accounts but really were only 40,000 eployees Continued >The scam came into light in January 2009 >The founder of Satyam was arrested two days after he admitted to falsifying the firms accounts. >Ramalinga Raju was charged with several offences, including criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, and forgery. >Satyams shares fell to 11.50 rupees on 10 January 2009, their lowest level since March 1998, compared to a high of 544 rupees in 2008 [13] . In New York Stock Exchange Satyam shares peaked in 2008 at US$ 29.10; by March 2009 they were trading around US $1.80.
Later after the scam New CEO and special advisors On 5 February 2009, the six-member board appointed by the Government of India named A. S. Murthy as the new CEO of the firm with immediate effect Murthy, an electrical engineer, has been with Satyam since January 1994
Acquisition by Mahindra Group
>On 13th April 2009, via a formal public auction process, a 46% stake in Satyam was purchased by Mahindra & Mahindra owned company Tech Mahindra