sebi:RA/JP/163-164/2017
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Provisions invoked
- s. 15
- s. 15H
- s. 15J
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 9(f)
- Reg. 15
- Reg. 4(2)(g)
Parties
- Noticee No. 1 (JCSL / Jaypee Capital Services Ltd.)
- Noticee No. 2 (Key Managerial Person of Noticee No. 1)
Holding
The Noticees were found to have indulged in large-scale self trades in USD-INR contracts on USE between April and October 2011 with manipulative intent to artificially raise volume and create a misleading appearance of trading, thereby violating Regulation 3, 4(1) and 4(2)(a) of the PFUTP Regulations and clauses A(2), (3) and (4) of the Code of Conduct under Schedule II of the Stock Brokers Regulations. Noticee No. 2, as the KMP running Noticee No. 1, was held pari delicto for causing such manipulative self trades.
Full text
Page 2 of 47 2. It was examined under the inspection that the Noticee No. 1 along with / in assistance of the Noticee No. 2, had indulged into executing large self trades with manipulative/fraudulent intent to artificially raise the volume in USD-INR contracts and to create misleading appearance of trading in the currency derivatives segment at USE during the inspection period; and by so doing, allegedly, the Noticees had violated regulation 3, 4 (1) & 4 (2) (a) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as ‘PFUTP Regulations’) and clause A(2), (3) & (4) of the Code of Conduct under Schedule II {read with erstwhile regulation 7 (now regulation 9(f)} of the SEBI (Stock Brokers and Sub Brokers) Regulations, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Stock Brokers Regulations’).
Page 3 of 47 (a) The Noticees had indulged in executing large self trades (where buyer and seller of a trade is the same person and no meaningful ownership is changed in such transactions; but are intended to create misleading appearance of trading) with an intention to artificially raise the volume in USD-INR contracts and to create misleading appearance of trading in the currency derivatives segment at USE during the inspection period. The trading pattern of the Noticee(s) (self-trades in its proprietary account in currency derivatives) has been confirmed by USE on the basis of details of order/trade logs for the period April 2011 to October 2011. Copy of finding of inspection and copy of USE’s letter dated October 22, 2013 attaching data / detail of trade logs etc. of Exchange's server in respect of self trades done by the Noticee(s), were provided to the Noticee(s) as Annexure II and III respectively along with SCN. Inspection revealed that, the turnover of USE has been increased (almost double) upon execution of such self trades by the Noticee(s) and details of such turnover of Noticee No. 1 / JCSL with comparison to USE’s turnover, were mentioned in table at page 3 of the SCN.
Page 4 of 47 (which was observed to have accounted for 73.32% of self-trade turnover of Noticee No. 1). Such details were shown in table at page 5 of the SCN.
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