sebi:SD/AO/77/2011
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Facts / Headnote
Penalty imposed
Provisions invoked
- s. 15
- s. 15J
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 4(1)
Holding
The Noticee violated Regulations 4(1), 4(2)(a), (b), (g) and (n) of the PFUTP Regulations and Clauses A(1)-(5) of the Stock Brokers Code of Conduct, and was ordered to pay a total monetary penalty of Rs 2,00,000 under Sections 15HA and 15HB of the SEBI Act.
Full text
Page 2 of 9 “Noticee”) was found to have dealt in such manner and therefore, SEBI initiated adjudication proceedings under the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘SEBI Act’’), against the Noticee, for allegedly violating the provisions of Regulations 4(1), 4(2)(a), (b), (g) and (n) of SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Markets) Regulations, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as “PFUTP Regulations”) and Clauses A (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) of the Code of Conduct of Stock Brokers as specified in the Schedule II under Regulation 7 of the SEBI (Stock Brokers and Sub-brokers) Regulations, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as “Broker Regulations”).
Page 3 of 9 traded substantially during the relevant period and engaged in synchronized/structured/matched transactions.
Page 4 of 9 Regulation 4 (2) reads thus, ‘Dealing in securities shall be deemed to be a fraudulent or an unfair trade practice if it involves fraud and may include all or any of the following, namely:- (a) indulging in an act which creates false or misleading appearance of trading in the securities market; (b) dealing in a security not intended to effect transfer of beneficial ownership but intended to operate only as a device to inflate, depress or cause fluctuations in the price of such security for wrongful gain or avoidance of loss; (g) entering into a transaction in securities without the intention of performing it or without intention of change of ownership of such security. (n) circular transactions in respect of a security entered into between intermediaries in order to increase commission to provide a false appearance of trading in such security or to inflate, depress or cause fluctuations in the price of such security.
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