article_snippet.sent: (CNN)An Indian software pioneer and nine others have been sentenced to seven years in jail for CNN)An Indian software pioneer and nine others role in what has been dubbed India's biggest corporate scandal in memory, police said.
article_snippet.sent: Ramalinga Raju, the former chairman of software services exporter Satyam Computers Services, was also fined $804,000, R.K. Gaur, a spokesman for India's Central Bureau of Investigation, told CNN.
article_snippet.sent: A special court convicted its then-chairman Raju and nine other people of cheating, criminal conspiracy, breach of public trust and other charges, said the Central Bureau of Investigation, which looked into a massive $1.6 billion fraud case.
article_snippet.sent: After its then-chairman Raju's shock disclosures six years ago, the Indian government fired Satyam's board.
article_snippet.sent: A heavyweight of the nation's software industry, Raju, 60, has been in jail for the past 32 months.
article_snippet.sent: its then-chairman Raju had founded Satyam in 1987.