Cognizant bribery case: US seeks deposition of L&T chair SN Subrahmanyan, others

The US government has sought the deposition of Larsen and Toubro Ltd’s chair S.N. Subrahmanyan to ascertain if Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. routed illicit payments through India’s largest construction company to government officials between 2013 and 2015.

Subrahmanyan was the head of L&T’s construction business when some of the company’s employees are alleged to have bribed Indian government officials in return for faster approvals to build Cognizant’s office campuses in Chennai and Pune.