sebi:WTM/AB/WRO/WRO/18810/2022-23

SEBI · SEBI · 2021-07-27 · Ananta Barua, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Noticees held to be unregistered investment advisers and directed to jointly and severally refund fees, issue public notice, file compliance report, and debarred from securities market for 6 months.

Provisions invoked

• s. 12(1)
• s. 11
• s. 21

Regulations

• Reg. 2(1)(l)
• Reg. 3(1)
• Reg. 2(1)(m)

Parties

• Shri Piyush Shambharkar
• The Profit Sharing

Holding

The Noticees were acting as investment advisers for consideration without SEBI registration in violation of Section 12(1) of the SEBI Act, 1992 read with Regulation 3(1) of the IA Regulations, 2013, and were directed to jointly and severally refund Rs. 1,98,29,434 with debarment and ancillary directions.

Full text

Final Order in the matter of Shri Piyush Shambharkar, Proprietor: The Profit Sharing Page 1 of 12 WTM/AB/WRO/WRO/18810/2022-23

Final Order in the matter of Shri Piyush Shambharkar, Proprietor: The Profit Sharing Page 2 of 12 (hereinafter referred to as “Profit Sharing”) and proprietor Shri Piyush Shambhakar (Profit Sharing and Shri Piyush Shambhakar collectively referred to as the ‘Noticees’). The SCN alleged that Noticees were carrying out unregistered Investment Advisory services.

Final Order in the matter of Shri Piyush Shambharkar, Proprietor: The Profit Sharing Page 3 of 12 unregistered company for which SEBI Registration work is under process. Mr. Bhavish Patel asked the complainant to transfer Rs. 76000/- and stated that he will recover earlier losses. - The Complainant stated that profit sharing did not do KYC and did not provide stop loss for trading and promised him 100% profit. He made a loss of 2,44,000/- and transferred 88,000/- and 76,000/- to Mr. Bhavish Patel representing Profit Sharing. - The complainant alleged that he had received investment advisory services from the Noticees and made payments to the Noticees for providing the services. The complainant mentioned that he transferred money in a bank account with ICICI bank on the behest of Mr. Bhavish Patel. The complainant later found out that the said ICICI bank account belonged to Profit Sharing. v. Payment made by the complainant could be traced in the ICICI bank account of the Profit Sharing. Further, from the bank account statements and the narration column of transactions at SBI account of Mr. Piyush Shambharkar, it was observed in the SCN that the money has been received in the bank account for the purpose of trading tip, fees, trade call fee, advisory charges, stock fee, investment. Hence, it was inferred that the said Bank account of Mr. Piyush Shambharkar and the bank account of Profit Sharing were used for receipt of fees from various entities for the purpose providing advis

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