sebi:WTM/PS/56/IVD/ID-3/DEC/2010
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Facts / Headnote
Noticee found guilty of violating PFUTP Regulations and Code of Conduct for Stock Brokers; prohibited from taking up any new assignment for a period of one month.
Provisions invoked
- s. 19
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 5(1)
- Reg. 13
- Reg. 4(a)
- Reg. 28(2)
- Reg. 28
- Reg. 38(2)
Parties
- Deepak Jhunjhunwala
Holding
The noticee, stock broker Deepak Jhunjhunwala, was held to have violated Clauses B (4)(a) and (b) of the Code of Conduct for Stock Brokers and the PFUTP Regulations by executing cross deals in the scrip of TFC that created artificial volume and price rise, and was prohibited from taking up any new assignment for one month.
Full text
Page 2 of 7 scrip was not supported by any improvement in the fundamentals or any corporate actions of TFC. It was revealed that the trading was highly concentrated within top 10 stock brokers who had traded in the scrip. The said stock brokers were found to be engaged in self trades which led to increase in volumes. This trading had accounted for 81.25% of gross purchases, 82.63% of gross sales, 2.18% of net purchases and 2.37% of net sales. It was revealed that inspite of such trading concentration, the net purchase and sales was very small. Because of this, the brokers had no delivery positions to the exchange on most of the days.
Page 3 of 7 27 of SEBI (Intermediaries) Regulations, 2008, recommending thereby a prohibition to take up any new assignment for a period of one month to the noticee for violating the provisions of Regulation 4(a) and (d) of PFUTP Regulations read with Regulation 13 of SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market) Regulations, 2003, Clauses B (4) (a) and (b) of the Code of Conduct prescribed for Stock Brokers in Schedule II under Regulation 7 of Broker Regulations.
Page 4 of 7 SEBI received a letter of noticee on August 26, 2010 replying thereby to the SCN. Noticee vide his letter dated August 27, 2010 submitted his written submission along with some documents and the same has been taken on record. The submissions of the noticee in brief are:
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