Ramalinga Raju founded Satyam Computers in 1987 and resigned in 2009 after admitting to an accounting fraud of $1.5 billion. He had falsified Satyam's accounts for several years and misused investor funds, diverting them to his family's businesses Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties. Raju was arrested along with his brother and former Satyam managing director for offenses including breach of trust and insider trading. The Satyam scam shocked investors and damaged India's reputation due to its massive scale and auditors' failure to detect the fraud for many years.