CBI arrests Satyam's internal audit head Gupta

The CBI spokesman here said the agency has arrested Gupta, head of internal audit of Satyam Computer (now Mahindra Satyam), as his “role came to light now.”
The spokesman said he has been arrested after being “arraigned as an additional accused (he was not named in the FIR filed in January). He has been produced before the court and has been remanded in judicial custody till November 26.”

While the spokesman refused to divulge any further information about Gupta, sources in the agency claimed that the auditor had helped in falsifying accounts including inflating the overseas employees pay bill.

The arrest comes just a few days ahead of the CBI preparing to file a second charge sheet, as the team probing the case returned from Mauritius with some bank details from the island nation.

The CBI team had gone to probe the alleged diversion of funds by disgraced Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju to Mauritius for re-routing it back to fictitious firms set up by the accused in India, the sources said.