sebi:PKK/AO/93/2011
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Facts / Headnote
Violation found; penalty of Rs 1,00,000 imposed
Provisions invoked
- s. 11
- s. 15A
- s. 15
- s. 15H
- s. 15J
- s. 11C
- s. 12
Regulations
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 3(a)
Parties
- M/s. V. K. Trading Company
Holding
The Noticee violated Regulations 3(b), 4(2)(a), (b) and (g) of the PFUTP Regulations by synchronized/reversal trades creating artificial volume and violated Section 11C(2) read with 11C(3) and 11C(5) by failing to appear and furnish information, and is liable to a total monetary penalty of Rs 1,00,000 under Sections 15HA and 15A(a).
Full text
Page 2 of 13 ‘Noticee’) along with the connected entities indulged in manipulative and fraudulent trading in the scrip of CDIL with the money received from Patel Investments. The Noticee allegedly created artificial volume and spurt in price by engaging in synchronized/reversal trades. The Noticee also failed to comply with the summons issued by the investigating authority.
Page 3 of 13 (a), (b), (c), (d) 4(1), 4(2) (a), (b), & (g) of the PFUTP Regulations and Section 11C (2) read with Section 11C (3) and 11C(5) of the SEBI Act.
Page 4 of 13 His client is a small investor, used to deal in various scrips based on electronic and print media reports and they used to engage in day trading so that they would profit from the price changes. They have no connection with the entities mentioned in the SCN. They have no financial transactions or share transfers with any one of them. It is but natural that some of the entities might have been introduced by the same person or availed loans from the same financier. They used to take short term loan (up to six months) from M/s. Patel Investments on commercial terms (one to one and a half percent interest per month) mainly for share trading all the loans taken from Patel Investments have been paid back. As mentioned earlier they have traded not only in the scrip of Classic Diamond (India) Ltd. but also in other scrips. They place their orders with the broker and the broker in turn executes the trades through the anonymous order trade matching system. Therefore, the allegation of their indulging in synchronized trades is strongly denied. It might be possible that few of the orders might have matched with the orders of other clients who were actively trading in the scrip. They submitted that matching of few trades over a period of more than two months cannot be construed as intentional or premeditated. The so called reversal of trades had occurred to square off days open position but it may be noted that squaring of positions is done in almost all days in most of the
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