The Hyderabad branch of the Company Law Board (CLB) today restrained former whole-time directors, chairman, the chief financial officer and company secretary of Satyam from selling or mortgaging their assets.

The CLB order comes a day after the government filed a petition seeking restraint orders so that these five former members of the top management would not divert or siphon off funds from Satyam.

These five have to submit details of their bank accounts, movable and immovable properties in India and abroad by February 20 this year, said Prem Chand Gupta, minister for corporate affairs.

This is the second CLB order in the government’s favour, after the company affairs ministry obtained a favourable interim verdict to supersede Satyam's board. At present, there are six government nominees in the board of Hyderabad-based software services firm.

After B Ramalinga Raju confessed to manipulating Satyam's accounts of Satyam, government investigators from the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) have confiscated documents to discover how the fraud was committed. Two days back, the government extended SFIO probe to cover two related firms of Ramalinga Raju — Maytas Properties Ltd and Maytas Infra Ltd, to check whether these two realty and construction firms were used to divert funds from Satyam.

Asked about potential buyers for Satyam, Gupta said, “Today the priority before the board is to bring back Satyam from its crisis so that it can restore confidence with clients and employees.”

Gupta also declined to answer whether the government is planning to supersede the board of the two Maytas companies.

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