Hyderabad: The CBI, investigating the Satyam financial fraud, arrested three employees including a top executive of the IT firm last night, said CBI DIG V V Lakshmi Narayana.
"We arrested three employees last night who designed the mechanism for the fraud and they were involved in preparing fake monthly bank statements and other documents," the CBI DIG said on Monday.
The following Satyam employees were arrested: Vice-President (Finance) G Ramakrishna, and two others working in the finance department -- D Venkatpati Raju and Srisailam.
During the questioning by a two-member high-powered team of the ICAI, Satyam's former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas on Sunday mentioned the name of G Ramakrishna.
With these three, nine persons in all have been arrested in connection with the fraud case.