sebi:SD/AO/98/2009
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Facts / Headnote
Penalty imposed
Provisions invoked
- s. 15
- s. 15H
- s. 15J
Regulations
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 4(1)
- Reg. 29
Parties
- Shri Lokesh Kapoor
Holding
The Noticee, Shri Lokesh Kapoor, violated Regulations 4(1), 4(2)(a), (b), (e) and (g) of the PFUTP Regulations, 2003 and is liable for monetary penalty under Section 15HA of the SEBI Act. A monetary penalty of Rs. 5,00,000 was imposed on the Noticee.
Full text
Page 2 of 14 are directors. There are 42 such entities who are allegedly involved in the manipulation of the scrip of MCL, out of which 33 entities were allegedly found to be connected to each other. These entities who transacted in the shares of MCL entered into synchronized and structured deals that led to creation of misleading appearance of trading in the scrip of MCL and artificial volumes in the scrip and distorted market equilibrium leading to sudden spurt in the volume and price of the scrip.
Page 3 of 14 8. In the interest of natural justice and in order to conduct an inquiry as per Rule 4 (3) of the Rules, the Noticee was granted an opportunity of personal hearing on October 13, 2008 vide notice dated October 1, 2008. However, vide letter dated October 8, 2008 the Noticee requested for extension of time by seven days, which has been granted.
Page 4 of 14 ¾ That the Noticee’s debtor Mr.Vishal Malaviya had to pay the Noticee certain amount and thus, he approached the Noticee to settle his account and as such he asked the Noticee to sell the shares of MCL with an assurance that he will transfer the shares to the Noticee’s account. Further, the debtor agreed to transfer the shares only upon the Noticee selling the shares. Accordingly the shares were transferred to the Noticee’s account in lieu of settlement of amount receivable from debtor, however, the Noticee was unaware of the source/origin of the said shares. And he dealt with them as directed by him. ¾ That as far as the Depository system works, anyone who opens a demat account, shares can be debited/credited in that account from any other demat account without any correspondence with the receiver and thus the Noticee was unaware about whether shares are received from his debtor or from any other source. ¾ That the Noticee has bought 0.47% of total buy market volume of 67.71% and sold only 2% of the total sell market volume of 58.70% during the period of investigation, which is too negligible. ¾ That as regards the synchronized trades, both buy price and quantity don’t match with sell price and quantity wherein the counter party seller was Ganesh Raut with whom no link has been proved. Thus no synchronization has been present in the said deals. ¾ In the written submissions made by the Noticee on December 23, 2008 after the personal hearing on December 15, 2008,
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