SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has turned back a request from former Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain to toss the criminal charges against him related to his role in the company's ill-fated 2011 sale to Hewlett-Packard.

Hussain's lawyers at Keker, Van Nest & Peters had argued the charges against him are an impermissible extraterritorial application of federal criminal law since the underlying transaction involved Autonomy, a London- and Cambridge-based software company, and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Dutch subsidiary.

But U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California disagreed and on Oct. 27 issued a 16-page order allowing the case to proceed.