sebi:PKK/AO/4/2011

SEBI · SEBI · 2010-12-16 · P K Kuriachen, Adjudicating Officer

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Facts / Headnote

Violation found; monetary penalty imposed

Provisions invoked

• s. 15
• s. 15H
• s. 15J

Regulations

• Reg. 4
• Reg. 3
• Reg. 4(1)

Holding

The Noticee violated Regulations 4(1), 4(2)(a), (b), (e) and (g) of the PFUTP Regulations, 2003 and a monetary penalty of Rs. 5,00,000 under Section 15HA of the SEBI Act, 1992 was imposed on the Noticee.

Full text

Page 2 of 17 violation of Regulations 4(1), 4(2)(a), (b), (e), and (g) of the PFUTP Regulations. Show Cause Notice, Reply & Personal hearing

Page 3 of 17 Annexure D to the SCN. Further, the Noticee is connected to these entities as the off-market details received from the Depository (Annexure E to the SCN) indicates that his telephone number is the same as that of many counterparties.

Page 4 of 17 8. Investigations have further revealed that the said group of connected entities (including the Noticee) were also involved in 62 structured trades among themselves with a total traded volume of 2972551 shares accounting for 3.49% of gross market traded quantity wherein buy and sell order rates and quantities were same and time difference between buy and sell orders was less than 1 minute. The details of the same were reflected in Annexure 7 to the SCN. These connected entities were also observed to be involved in 243 trades which were executed at a price difference of 0.5% or more than the last traded price or last closing price as shown in Annexure 8 to the SCN. The synchronized trades executed by you in this manner are given in Annexure C to the SCN.

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