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Also, there have been incidents where mortgaged properties were auctioned off at “undervalued” prices, the sources said. The meeting is to find out whether there was any actual mischief or if it was due to practical difficulties in finding a buyer to pay a higher value for the property as the registered value shown on paper would have been lesser than its actual value, they added. Full Article

India's notorious Satyam Computer Services scandal has taken a turn for the worse, with the country's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) laying new charges against 10 defendants regarding fake invoices, inflated revenues, unauthorised loans and attempted cover ups. These come in a new 200-page charge sheet with 1,549 additional documents and 301 additional witnesses, filed on November 25, before the city court in Hyderabad. Full Article

CBI raid DOT offices after CVC has charged the telecom ministry of irregularities in awarding the 2G spectrum licenses loss of revenue to the government. Sanchar Bhawan was under raid for the department allocation of 2G spectrum to some of the new players at throw away prices without any bid but adopted on first come- first serve basis. Full Article

In a bid to avoid accounting frauds of the type that hit Satyam Computers, now called Mahindra Satyam, in January this year, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has decided to scrutinise the account books of all registered companies — listed as well as unlisted — in the country. Full Article

THE INSTITUTE of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has raised questions about ICICI Bank’s home loans business and has sought a fresh central bank audit of a two-year-old sale deal of dud loans, after a Mumbai-based chartered accountant spotted irregularities in some loans.“The regulator should re-audit assets sold to ARCIL,” ICAI president Uttam Prakash Agarwal [...] Full Article