sebi:AK/AO-66-67/2017
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Facts / Headnote
Order finding the Noticees liable for placing fictitious trades and creating artificial volumes in the scrip of Sky Industries Limited (SIL)
Provisions invoked
- s. 15
- s. 15H
- s. 15J
- s. 15F
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 4(1)
- Reg. 4(2)
- Reg. 3(a)
- Reg. 4(2)(g)
Parties
- JV Stock Broking Ltd.
- SPFL (Stock Broker)
Holding
The Adjudicating Officer found that JV Stock through SPFL placed fictitious trades for 14,235 shares (7.65% of its total traded quantity) in the scrip of Sky Industries Limited with the intent to create artificial volumes through self trades, and that SPFL acted as both broker and counterparty broker for these self trades.
Full text
_____________________________________________________________________________________ Order in the matter of Sky Industries Limited Page 2 of 47 difference between the buy and sell orders is less than one minute. The broker SPFL was also observed to be one of the brokers appearing in the list of top 10 brokers by gross quantity based on trading in the scrip during the investigation period. It further came to notice that SPFL acted as both broker and counterparty broker for the self trades of JV Stock. JV Stock and SPFL are hereinafter collectively referred to as 'the Noticees')
_____________________________________________________________________________________ Order in the matter of Sky Industries Limited Page 3 of 47 APPOINTMENT OF ADJUDICATING OFFICER
_____________________________________________________________________________________ Order in the matter of Sky Industries Limited Page 4 of 47 Further that in view of the same, they were unable to comprehend the complete scope of the investigation and were unable to completely reply to the allegations against them; (b) That the Noticees had no malafide intentions whatsoever and that the allegations are based on incomplete and incorrect assumption of facts; (c) That JV Stock was into trading/ jobbing/ arbitrage of shares and had more than 90 jobbers/ traders/ arbitragers doing share business on their behalf; (d) That the percentage that matched among the traders/ jobbers/ arbitrageurs of JV Stock is negligible as compared to the total trading in the scrip of SIL done by them, which clearly shows that they did not have any malafide intention; (e) That JV Stock did trading/ jobbing/ arbitrage on a daily basis in shares of more than 350- 400 companies with turnover ranging between Rs.45-55 crore, resulting in delivery volume of approximately Rs.6-7 crore on a daily basis in the Capital Market Segment. They also enclosed their trading pattern for a sample ten days so as to indicate that the business activity were of trading/ arbitrage/ jobbing nature; (f) That JV Stock had dealt in more than 1,500 scrips other than SIL during the investigation period and that the percentage of trades carried out in the scrip of SIL were very meager compared to the trades in other scrips; (g) Tha
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