sebi:AO/SBM/EAD-3/129/2018
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Facts / Headnote
Adjudication proceedings disposed without penalty - Noticee exonerated
Provisions invoked
- s. 15
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 3(a)
Parties
- M/s SVS Securities Pvt Ltd
Holding
The Noticee's self-trades in PVP Ventures Ltd. did not violate PFUTP Regulations or the Stock Brokers Code of Conduct, and the Noticee is not liable for monetary penalty under sections 15HA and 15HB of the SEBI Act.
Full text
Page 2 of 15 has violated the provisions of regulations 3(a), (b), (c), (d), 4(1), 4(2)(a) and 4 (2)(g) of SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as ‘PFUTP Regulations’) and clauses A(1),(2), (3) & (4) of the Code of Conduct for Stock Brokers as prescribed in Schedule II under Regulation 7 of SEBI (Stock Brokers and Sub-Brokers) Regulations, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Broker Regulations’). In view of the alleged violations of the aforementioned provisions of law by the Noticee, it is alleged that Noticee is liable for penalty under sections 15HA and 15 HB of the SEBI Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as ‘SEBI Act’).
Page 3 of 15 a) SEBI conducted an investigation into the alleged irregularities in trading in the shares of PVP Ventures Ltd. covering the period from May 04, 2009 to December 31, 2009. b) During investigation, it was revealed that certain entities had indulged in self-trades in the shares of PVP during the investigation period at BSE and NSE. The Noticee being a client as well as the stock broker, had entered into self-trades on both BSE and on NSE on several occasions from August 26, 2009 to October 21, 2009. The self-trades executed by the Noticee at BSE were for 3,10,430 shares in 42 trade count in 8 trading days and at NSE, the self-trades were for 1,46,051 shares in 485 trade count in 16 trading days. In all such self-trades, the Noticee was the client as well as stock broker and had placed buy as well as sell orders in its proprietary account through its terminal. c) The copy of the summary of such self-trades at BSE and NSE executed by the Noticee in its proprietary account, in the scrip of PVL was enclosed as Annexures along with the SCN. d) In view of above, it is alleged that the Noticee had indulged in self-trades in the shares of PVP which were manipulative/unfair/fraudulent in nature as no actual beneficial ownership of shares changed in such types of transaction and these transactions were only meant to create false and misleading appearance of trading in the scrip of PVP in the securities market. Allegedly, by indulging into such kinds of trading, the Noticee
Page 4 of 15 multiple dealers to trade in our account who constantly keep trading in multiple securities. Each dealer only knows his own position and does not know the position of other dealer. Based on the trend of price and volume if it appears that the stock may rise during the day or for a few days, we take a buy position. As and when it appears that the price of the stock appears to move downward, we sell the holding. Our trades are based on the pre-established trend in a particular security. In order to track the trend of the markets, we place trigger orders of small quantities of 1 to 10 shares, which may also match with the large order placed by the same dealer or other dealer. In many cases we place disclosed quantity order, where though the order is placed for a higher quantity, the trades are executed for a smaller quantity, resulting in higher number of trades. b) Before we offer our explanation to the observations and allegations in the Show Cause Notice, we would like to humbly submit that our volume in PVP as compared to our Total Business is extremely miniscule. Further our volume in PVP is also extremely miniscule compared to the volume of PVP on Exchanges during the same period. Even further the quantum of self-trades as compared with our total turnover or the turnover of PVP on Exchanges is extremely negligible to cause any impact on the market. c) As explained in the background hereinabove, we have a large number of dealers executing transactions in multip
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