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Business News/ Companies / News/  Tribunal quashes Sebi's ban on PwC in Satyam scam
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Tribunal quashes Sebi's ban on PwC in Satyam scam

Sebi has no authority to look into the quality of audit and auditing services: SAT
  • Sebi can only take remedial and preventative action, the tribunal said
  • SAT today set aside Sebi's ban on PwCPremium
    SAT today set aside Sebi's ban on PwC

    Mumbai: In a major setback to Sebi, Securities Appellate Tribunal or SAT today overturned the markets regulator's order banning Price Waterhouse Coopers from auditing any listed company for two years for its role in the 7,800-crore Satyam scam. However, SAT partly allowed disgorgement of the 13 crore fee from the auditor.

    The scam saw the Ramalinga Raju-promoted company going belly up in January 2009.

    Setting aside the ban on PwC, which is one of the Big Four global accounting firms, SAT said, only the national auditors watchdog ICAI (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India) can take any action against its members and fraud cannot be proved on the basis of negligence in auditing.

    "Sebi has no authority to look into the quality of audit and auditing services. Sebi can only take remedial and preventative action. The direction issued is neither remedial nor preventive. But punitive," SAT said.

    However, it said there has been breach of duty, therefore, the entire fee of 13 crore can be taken back with interest from PwC.

    On January 8, 2009, Satyam Computer Services founder-chairman B Ramalinga Raju had publicly admitted and confessed to large-scale financial manipulations to the tune of over 5,000 crore in the company's books. A Sebi probe however found the scam was much higher at 7,800 crore.

    Soon after the admission, the government superseded the Satyam board and initiated a sale process, which in April that year ended Tech Mahindra taking over the company

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    Published: 09 Sep 2019, 02:14 PM IST
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