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...Since then, two auditors of Satyam's accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), have been sitting in an Indian jail, accused of abetting the scheme. Narayana, the CBI deputy director general, said there was evidence indicating their involvement but declined to elaborate. Following the release of the CBI report, a PwC spokeswoman declined comment; the accounting firms top India executive in March denied any of its employees were involved in wrongdoing...
...Since dropping the Satyam account after the fraud came to light, PwC has been going all out to repair its reputation. Before his recent retirement, Samuel DiPiazza Jr., PwC International's former CEO, made frequent trips to India to meet clients and government ministers. Indian politicians have said that the government will take action against PwC if it is found liable, which could mean penalties or even ejection from India...
...biggest difference between the two trials, Nikam says, is that the Nov. 26 attacks were planned in Pakistan, and the terrorists involved tried to hide their nationality, carrying student ID cards from Indian colleges. On Wednesday, a police witness described visiting four Indian cities trying to verify the names and addresses on those IDs, only to find that they were false. "Qasab has exposed Pakistan," Nikam says. "The conspiracy was hatched in Pakistan...
That belief is central to Nikam's case, and he has spent months putting into evidence the satellite phone calls and financial records that Indian authorities say prove that the attacks were planned by a jihadi network based in Pakistan. U.S. investigators and U.S. citizens who witnessed the attacks gave testimony in Mumbai; Mumbai police also got help from American intelligence officials when they went to New Jersey to trace calls routed through a U.S.-based internet phone service. The Indian government has presented several dossiers of evidence to Pakistani authorities to prosecute defendants there. On Wednesday, an anti-terrorism...
...interview with the Christian Science Monitor on Nov. 25, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "There is now impeccable evidence the conspiracy was planned in Pakistan. It was executed with the active connivance of people who are still roaming around freely in Pakistan. Therefore, I respectfully request the world community to use all its influence on Pakistan to desist from that sort of behavior." Those are strong words coming from the normally reticent Indian leader, and a signal of a harder line in the second year after Mumbai...