sebi:CO/81/IES/07/2003

SEBI · SEBI · G N Bajpai, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India

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Facts / Headnote

Mr. Samir Zaveri directed not to access the capital markets or deal in securities for a period of two years with immediate effect.

Provisions invoked

• s. 4(3)
• s. 11

Regulations

• Reg. 11
• Reg. 4

Parties

• Samir Zaveri

Holding

Mr. Samir Zaveri was held to have violated Regulation 4(a), (c) and (d) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 1995 in the scrip of HJIL and was debarred from accessing the capital markets or dealing in securities for two years.

Full text

5. I have carefully examined the findings of investigation and I find that Shri Samir Zaveri had dealt in the scrip of HJIL through his proprietorship concern Samy Enterprise on his own account. Samir Zaveri is found to have introduced Farokh Pavri and Empire Group to Lotus Investment and Gazi Securities, members – NSE and all the day to day orders in respect of their trading in HJIL were seen to have been placed by him only with the broker, Lotus Investment. 5.1 All the transactions of Samir Zaveri in HJIL scrip were found to have been routed through three NSE members namely Gazi Securities Ltd., Cyrus Vazifdar and Lotus Investment. Following table gives the net purchases and sales made by Samy Enterprises during Sett. No.1996036 to Sett. No. 1997011. 5.2 During the investigation, Samir Zaveri was asked about the source of delivery made at the exchange to the extent of 1,03,000 shares he had sold through Cyrus Vazifdar and Lotus Investment. His explanation was that he had spot purchased all the shares from Vinayak Investments and Gazi Securities. Shri Zaveri had also stated that he was approached by Mr. Ashwin Shah of Vinayak Investment with the scheme of earning better profit on the investment in stock market. Again, Shri Zaveri was found to have introduced Shri Manish Radhanpura of Vinayak Investment to Shri Munir Gazi of Gazi Securities (Member – NSE) who was also interested in such kind of investment opportunity.

4. It is seen from the above table, that Samir Zaveri had purchased 1,38,100 shares of HJIL and had spot sold 18,500 shares. Also, he was found to have purchased 21,300 shares from the market and had sold 1,03,000 shares through various NSE brokers through the exchange system. Therefore, the total purchase and sale by Shri Samir Zaveri was 1,59,400 shares and 1,21,500 shares.

the time of pay in. It was observed that the purchase price (spot price) was less than the price at which the shares had been sold in the exchange. The difference in sale price and purchase price was found to be on account of the interest on the funds lent in the form of purchase consideration for spot purchases, which had varied with the number of days for which finance was used during the interregnum between day of sale and day of pay out.

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