sebi:WTM/GA/60/ISD/04/06
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Facts / Headnote
Interim directions including directing Karvy-DP and Pratik-DP not to open new dematerialized accounts till further orders, and advising depositories to activate ISINs only on the date of commencement of trading for IPOs
Provisions invoked
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- s. 19
- s. 12
- s. 58
- s. 4(1)
- s. 26
- s. 34
Regulations
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 199
- Reg. 2
- Reg. 20A
- Reg. 37
- Reg. 35
- Reg. 46
- Reg. 42(2)
- Reg. 20
- Reg. 42
Holding
SEBI found that 24 key operators used fictitious/benami/multiple dematerialized accounts to corner the retail portion of 21 IPOs during 2003-2005, and issued interim directions including barring Karvy-DP and Pratik-DP from opening new demat accounts pending further orders.
Full text
Interim Order - IPO Page 2 of 252 the application being for small value so as to be eligible for allotment under the retail category. Subsequent to the receipt of IPO allotment these fictitious / benami allottees had transferred shares to their principals who in turn transferred the shares to the financiers that had originally made available the funds for executing the game-plan. The financiers in turn sold most of these shares on the first day of listing thereby realising the windfall gain of the price difference between IPO price and the listing price.
Interim Order - IPO Page 3 of 252 the names of fictitious / benami entities, SEBI has directed the major DPs involved, namely, Karvy-DP and Pratik-DP not to open new dematerialized accounts till further
Interim Order - IPO Page 4 of 252 i. Since some of the demat accounts that were used in the IPOs of Yes Bank and IDFC were opened during the year 2003, the depositories were advised to identify all the other IPOs during 2003, 2004 and 2005 wherein the same modus operandi has been adopted by the identified entities and to identify other entities besides those already identified by SEBI who were suspected to be indulging in the same modus operandi.
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