Second life

摘要

Dear Board Members, it is with deep regret and tremendous burden that I am carrying on my conscience that I would like to bring the following facts to your notice." Sent in January 2009, it was the sort of letter no company director wants to get. In it Ramalinga Raju, boss of Satyam-then India's fourth-biggest technology firm, with a glittering list of Western clients and a cabinet full of corporate-governance trophies-confessed he had cooked the books on an epic scale, while insisting he had not benefited personally.