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ED upholds attachment of Raju's assets

Jan.19, 2010

 

A government body dealing with assets acquired through illegal funds has attached as many as 287 properties owned by former Satyam Computer Services Ltd chairman B. Ramalinga Raju.

 

The Adjudicating Authority under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 has confirmed the attachment order of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in August last year to attach 287 properties belonging to the disgraced chairman of Satyam. The authority, in its January 14 order, clearly said all properties, both movable and immovable, under attachment by ED are involved in money laundering.

 

As per the directions, the attachment of these properties shall continue during the pendency of the proceedings relating to the scheduled offences before the trial court and shall become final after the guilt of the persons is proved in the trial court. The immovable properties are located across various taluks in Andhra Pradesh and Nagpur. As per the ED, the total consideration paid for purchasing these properties is Rs 168 crore.

 

The ED's attachment order, issued on August 18, states that the accused had purchased these properties with an amount of Rs 168 crore in the name of 84 companies they floated between 2005 and 2009.

 

The ED, after taking into consideration of the chargesheet filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), came to the conclusion that the accused persons have committed an offence of money laundering under Section 3 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and accordingly attached the properties under section 5(1) of the Act. ED had attached 287 properties on the grounds that they were purchased with the proceeds of the scam. The attachment made under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, would render these properties ineligible for sale, mortgage or any other similar transactions.

 

The case, as per the ED, is that Raju along with his brothers Rama Raju and Suryanarayana Raju cheated the ordinary public and investors by falsification of accounts and forging of documents. The accused persons presented an alluring financial status of the company leading to a steep rise of the value of shares of Satyam Computer Services. "They offloaded the shares at opportune time making huge gains wrongfully, which were channelised into movable and immovable properties," said the ED in its complaint.

 

The ED's investigation is still going on to identify hitherto unknown properties acquired by the accused with the scam money. ED officials also seized 38 lakh Satyam shares lying with the family-floated SRSR Holdings, which is said to be worth Rs 24 crore at the current market price. The properties attached were shown as agricultural by the Rajus but in reality were prime commercial plots in and around Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Nagpur.

 

They include the Banjara Hills Road No 14 (4,000 square feet) residence of Teja Raju, son of Ramalinga Raju. In Hyderabad, the properties are located at Bachupalli, Loyapalli, B. B. Palli, Vattinagunapalli and other prime locations. According to authorities, the present value will be around Rs 1,000 crore. In Nagpur alone, the accused acquired huge commercial properties for Rs 49 crore, whose valuations have gone up 10 times by now. The ED's Hyderabad zonal authorities had filed this attachment order, the biggest such order in the country, before the chairman and office of the adjudicating authority.