sebi:Order/KS/AA/2019-20/2996

SEBI · SEBI · 2018-04-03 · K Saravan, Chief General Manager & Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Violation established; penalty of Rs. 5,00,000 imposed under Section 15HA of the SEBI Act

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 19
• s. 15H
• s. 15I
• s. 15J
• s. 15F
• s. 15I(1)

Regulations

• Reg. 3
• Reg. 3(a)

Parties

• Rotex Intertrade Private Limited

Holding

The Adjudicating Officer held that Rotex Intertrade Private Limited violated regulations 3(a), (b), (c), (d), 4(1) and 4(2)(a) of the PFUTP Regulations by executing 41 non-genuine reversal trades in 8 stock option contracts on BSE, and imposed a penalty of Rs. 5,00,000 under Section 15HA of the SEBI Act.

Full text

Page 2 of 22 crore units or 54.68% of the total market volume in stock options segment of BSE during the Investigation Period. It was observed that Rotex Intertrade Private Limited (hereinafter referred to as the “Noticee”) was one of the various entities which indulged in execution of reversal trades in stock options segment of BSE during the Investigation Period. Such trades were observed to be non-genuine in nature and created false or misleading appearance of trading in terms of artificial volumes in stock options and therefore alleged to be manipulative, deceptive in nature. In view of the same, SEBI initiated adjudication proceedings against the Noticee for violation of the provisions of Regulations 3(a), (b), (c), (d), 4(1) and 4(2)(a) of SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices) Regulations, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as “PFUTP Regulations”).

Page 3 of 22 of the SEBI Act for the violations alleged to have been committed by the Noticee. 5. It was inter alia alleged in the SCN that the Noticee had executed 41 non genuine trades in 8 Stock Options contracts which resulted in artificial volume of total 75,85,500 units. The Noticee made a loss of approx. Rs. 1,57,31,100 by executing non genuine trades during the I.P. Summary of dealings of the Noticee in 8 Stock Options contracts, in which the Noticee allegedly executed non genuine trades during the I.P, is as follows: S. No. Contract Name Avg. Buy Rate (Rs.) Total Buy Volume (No. of units) Avg. Sell Rate Total Sell Volume (No. of units) % of Non Genuine trades of Noticee in the contract to Noticee's Total trades in the Contract % of Non Genuine trades of Noticee in the contract to Total trades in the Contract % of Artificial Volume generated by Noticee in the contract to Noticee's Total Volume in the Contract % of Artificial Volume generated by Noticee in the contract to Total Volume in the Contract 1 BHRT15MAR330.00CEW1 28.10 267000 19.50 267000 100% 50% 100% 64% 2 CRGL15MAR185.00CEW2 5.35 480000 0.11 480000 100% 100% 100% 100% 3 IDEA15FEB140.00CE 17.25 356000 7.48 356000 100% 100% 100% 100% 4 IDEA15MAR140.00CEW1 14.12 472000 7.60 472000 100% 23% 100% 33% 5 IFCI15MAR34.00PEW2 1.10 1328000 0.50 1328000 100% 10% 100% 45% 6 PNBK15MAR170.00CEW2 3.45 338750 0.36 338750 88% 54% 70% 54% 7 RPOW15FEB55.00PEW2 2.40 456000 0.18 456000 100% 13% 100% 20% 8 TMCL15MAR290.00CEW2 10.

Page 4 of 22 substantial 10% to 100% of the trades that happened in the aforementioned contracts were due to non-genuine trades executed by the Noticee. (c) A substantial 70% to 100% of volume generated by the Noticee in each of the above contracts was artificial volume, and further artificial volume generated by the Noticee also contributed to significant 20% to 100% of the total volume from the market in said contracts. (d) Non genuine trades executed by the Noticee in above contracts had significant differential in buy rates and sell rates considering that the trades were reversed on same day.

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