sebi:MO/06/IVD/08/05

SEBI · SEBI · 2004-11-25 · Madhukar, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Warning issued to Renaissance Securities Pvt. Ltd. for violations of SEBI Circulars; charge of market manipulation not established.

Provisions invoked

• s. 19
• s. 12

Regulations

• Reg. 4
• Reg. 13
• Reg. 200
• Reg. 2

Parties

• Renaissance Securities Pvt. Ltd.

Holding

Renaissance Securities Pvt. Ltd. was found to have violated SEBI Circulars by dealing with an unregistered sub-broker (M/s. Parklight Securities Ltd.), but was not held liable for market manipulation in the scrip of Birmingham Thermotech Ltd. A minor penalty of warning was imposed.

Full text

Home » Enforcement » Orders » Orders of Chairman/Members Enforcement Enforcement▼ ORDER UNDER REGULATION 13 (4) OF SEBI (PROCEDURE FOR HOLDING ENQUIRY BY ENQUIRY OFFICER AND IMPOSING PENALTY), REGULATIONS 2002 AGAINST RENAISSANCE SECURITIES PVT. LTD. - IN THE MATTER OF BIRMINGHAM THERMOTECH LTD. MO/06/IVD/08/05 WTM/M/ /05 1.0  BACKGROUND 1.1  M/s. Renaissance Securities Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Renaissance”) is a member of the Stock Exchange, Mumbai (registration no. INB 0101207756) and OTC Exchan India Ltd (registration no. INB 200683836). 1.2 SEBI conducted an investigation into the buying, selling and dealing in the scrip of Birmingham Thermotech Ltd. (BTL) for the period, November 29, 1999 to December 30 (hereinafter referred to as “Investigation period”). During the said period, Renaissance was seen to have executed three trades of 6,00,000 shares for its client, M/s Pa Securities on just one day i.e. on December 22, 1999. In such trades, the orders got matched with a little gap of 0 to 3 seconds with M/s. Parklight Investment Pvt. Ltd. wh placed three buy orders of 6,00,000 shares of BTL at the same time for its client M/s. H Nyalchand Financial Services Ltd. 1.3 During its investigation, SEBI examined these trades of Renaissance in order to determine whether there was a possibility of violations by Renaissance of the provisions of Regu 4 (a), (b) and (c) of SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 1

1.1 M/s. Renaissance Securities Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Renaissance”) is a member of the Stock Exchange, Mumbai (registration no. INB 0101207756) and OTC Exchange of India Ltd (registration no. INB 200683836). 1.2 SEBI conducted an investigation into the buying, selling and dealing in the scrip of Birmingham Thermotech Ltd. (BTL) for the period, November 29, 1999 to December 30,1999 (hereinafter referred to as “Investigation period”). During the said period, Renaissance was seen to have executed three trades of 6,00,000 shares for its client, M/s Parklight Securities on just one day i.e. on December 22,

2.2 The Enquiry Officer found that the alleged three trades of 6,00,000 shares of BTL executed by Renaissance for their clients M/s. Parklight Securities Ltd. (member, Ahmedabad Stock Exchange) did not result in any manipulation in the scrip of BTL and thus Renaissance was not guilty of manipulation in the scrip of BTL, on the basis of following facts: a) The volume of 6,00,000 shares of BTL sold by Renaissance on behalf of their client M/s. Parklight securities Ltd. is negligible in comparison to the total traded volume in the scrip of BTL. b) Knowledge of existence of any relationship between the Broker’s client and other entities who were allegedly involved in circular trading among themselves does not prove that the broker had the knowledge of circular trading. Further, knowledge of relationship between its clients and other entities does not entail the Broker to know the counterparty to the trades. 2.3 The charge against Renaissance for dealing with M/s Parklight Securites (member ASE) without their being registered as sub-broker of the broker, was found to be established by the Enquiry officer who held that Renaissance has technically violated the SEBI Circulars nos. SMD/ POLICY/CIRCULAR/3-97 dated March 31, 1997 and SMD/POLICY/ CIR-/98 dated January 16, 1998 which mandated that the members of one exchange, for dealing through members of another exchange, have to necessarily register themselves as sub-brokers. 2.4 On the basis of above findings, the Enquiry officer reco

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