Timeline of a corporate fraud

The founder of Satyam Computer Services, once India’s fourth-largest software services firm, was sentenced to seven years in prison after being found guilty in an accounting fraud case that ranks as the country’s biggest.

A court in Hyderabad, where Satyam was based, on Thursday pronounced Ramalinga Raju, a management graduate from Ohio University who founded Satyam in 1987, guilty of forging documents and falsifying accounts.

Here is a timeline of the case:

Timeline of a corporate fraud