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Market regulator Sebi today refused to stay proceedings against Price Waterhouse (PW) partners S Gopalakrishan and Srinivas Talluri for their alleged involvement in the Satyam fraud case and asked them to appear before it on February 5. Full Article

Market regulator Sebi today rejected the request of Price Waterhouse Bangalore lawyers to let them cross-examine the disgraced founder-chairman of Satyam Computer Services B Ramalinga Raju and his associates, accused in the Rs 14,000 crore accounting Full Article

Global firms KPMG and Ernst & Young could be headed for trouble in India as auditing regulator Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has found them doing business through surrogate means, without being registered in the country. Full Article

Accounting profession watchdog Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will seek an amendment to the Chartered Accountants Act to expand its regulatory powers to cover audit firms. Currently, the institute has powers to regulate only its members — chartered accountants — but does not have a specific mandate under law to oversee audit firms operating in the country. Full Article

Expressing satisfaction over the Bombay High Court order, ICAI today said Sebi is the right authority to probe allegations of irregularities against audit firm Price Waterhouse in the multi-crore Satyam scam. Full Article

The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed the writ petition filed by Price Waterhouse challenging the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Board to investigate the audit firm's role in the multi-crore Satyam accounting fraud. Delivering the order, the Division Bench headed by Mr Justice P. B. Majmudar said, "It is not a situation where we can say that SEBI cannot proceed with its investigations." Full Article

A newly-constituted Division Bench at Bombay High Court will hear anew the petition filed by audit firm Price Waterhouse challenging the jurisdiction of capital market regulator SEBI to investigate its role in the multi-crore Satyam fraud. Full Article

Mr Justice D. D. Sinha of the Bombay High Court, one of the judges on the Division Bench hearing audit firm Price Waterhouse's petition against Securities and Exchange Board of India, recused himself from hearing the case on Friday, without assigning any reason. Full Article