An Indian court has sentenced the former head of Satyam Computers and nine others to seven years in prison in one of the country's biggest ever corporate scandals.
B Ramalinga Raju, who founded the software services giant, denied charges of conspiracy, cheating and forgery but admitted to accounting malpractices.
Raju was also fined $800,000.
The collapse of Satyam Computers in 2009 cost shareholders more than $2bn and rocked India's IT industry.
The BBC's Simon Atkinson in Mumbai says it is the biggest fraud at a listed company in India.
The convicted men are expected to appeal. The maximum sentence Raju faced was life in jail.
Satyam was one of the biggest players in the booming Indian software market. The jobs of 50,000 Satyam workers were only saved after the government intervened.
Another Indian firm, Tech Mahindra, bought a controlling stake in the company in April 2009.
"All the accused have been convicted of almost all charges," prosecutor K Surender told reporters outside court,
Those convicted include two brothers of Raju.
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