2009-10-27 07:37:13

http://www.apanews.net/apa.php?page=show_article_eng&id_article=109899 

APA - Port Louis (Mauritius) Officials from the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have discovered that a huge amount of money from the Indian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) company, Satyam Computers (SC) has been stashed in Mauritius, APA learns in the Mauritian capital Port Louis on Tuesday. 

Offical sources at the Ministry of Finance here indicate here the investigators have ended in Mauritius following allegations that Ramalinga Raju, the founder of SC, the fourth biggest ICT group in India, had embezzled billions of Indian rupees from the company. 

The sources add that the CBI suspects that apart from Mauritius, banks in the US, Britain, Belgium, the British Isles and Singapore are also implicated in the financial scam. 

V.V. Lakshminarayana, the head of the investigating team has declared that he has precise information that some of the money has transited in Mauritius after which it was sent back to India through the Mauritian offshore. 

He added that investigations have shown that some 100US$ million from SC have been laundered in the local offshore and have found their way back in six bank accounts in India. 

Lakshminarayana declared that investigations are still going on to determine the exact amount that has been transferred to Mauritius.

 SC, one of the world’s most prosperous ICT companies has subsidaries on all continents and presently employs some 53 000 people.