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Raju & 5 others chargesheeted

Filing false income tax returns results in a loss of Rs 126.57 cr to the company
Last Updated 08 January 2010, 10:25 IST
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Tainted chairman of Satyam Computers B Ramalinga Raju and five others were chargesheeted by CBI on Thursday for allegedly filing false income tax returns resulting in a loss of Rs 126.57 crore to the company and shareholders.

Besides Raju, the others chargsheeted included his brother B Rama Raju, the then CFO V Srinivas, the then Vice President (Finance) G Ramakrishna of Satyam Computers and two auditors of PricewaterhouseCoopers — S Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas.

The 30-page chargesheet was filed in a designated court here under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 409 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating), 467 and 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (use of forged documents as genuine) and 477-A (falsification of accounts) of the IPC. The chargesheet cited 32 documents and 26 witnesses and the entire documentation runs into 3552 pages.

“The accused have inflated the revenue of the company by infusing false and fictitious sale invoices and shown the amount received and deposited as fixed deposits in various scheduled banks,” CBI DIG  V V Laxminarayana said.

He said due to this inflated revenue and the inflated income in the form of interest on the non-existent fixed deposit, there was an additional tax liability of Rs 526.37 crore on the company.

In the chargesheet, CBI claimed to have evidence against the accused of filing false income tax returns with fraudulent and dishonest intentions of cheating the shareholders and thereby causing wrongful loss to Satyam Computer, the agency said.

Due to this inflated revenue and the inflated income in the form of interest on the non-existent fixed deposits, an additional tax liability to the tune of Rs.526.37 crore was created on the company, CBI spokesman said in a statement.

Then by taking recourse to the provisions of Section 90 and 91 of the Income Tax Act, the accused in furtherance of the conspiracy showed higher tax remittances in foreign countries to get relief from the tax chargeable in India, the agency said.

This was achieved by showing income on the non-existent revenue as part of the income of overseas branches of Satyam Computers while filing income tax returns in India.
While filing returns in foreign countries, the non-existent income towards interest on non-existent fixed deposits was not included in the income declared to the tax authorities in those countries and no additional tax was paid.

In doing so the higher tax remittances to the tune of Rs 329.58 crore were shown as if paid in overseas tax remittances while filing returns in India. According to this modus operandi, the accused persons could not completely set off the additional tax liability created on the company.

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(Published 07 January 2010, 13:52 IST)

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