2. B Ramalinga Raju
Byrraju Ramalinga Raju was the former chairman of Satyam Computer Services from 1987 and till 7 January 2009, stepping down conceding to embezzlement of financial info of the company to the tune of Rs 71.36 billion (approximately US$1.5 billion), including Rs 50.40 billion (approximately US$1 billion) of non-existent cash and bank balances.
In April 2015, B Ramalinga Raju was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. He was penalized Rs 5.5 crore after he was convicted by a special court in the Rs 7,800-crore Accounting scam that rendered a gigantic setback to nation’s Information Technology (IT) Sector.
