sebi:WTM/RKA/IVD/ID-03/34/2012
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Facts / Headnote
Certificate of registration of the noticee suspended for seven working days
Provisions invoked
- s. 4(3)
- s. 19
- s. 12(3)
- s. 30(2)
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 13(2)
- Reg. 13
- Reg. 4(a)
- Reg. 25
- Reg. 199
- Reg. 28(2)
- Reg. 5
- Reg. 30
- Reg. 28
- Reg. 28(1)
- Reg. 38
- Reg. 13(4)
Parties
- M/s Equisearch Broking Private Limited
Holding
SEBI held that Equisearch Broking Private Limited violated regulations 3 and 4(b) of the PFUTP Regulations, 1995 and Clauses A(1) to A(4) of the Code of Conduct under regulation 7 of the Broker Regulations by executing synchronized trades for its client CCL and facilitating the offloading of unlisted DASL shares, and suspended its stock broker registration for seven working days.
Full text
Page 2 of 18 up equity capital of BBL before the allotment. There was no money consideration paid in respect of either of the preferential allotments.
Page 3 of 18 3. The findings of SEBI investigation pointed to various violations including that of the SEBI (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices in the Securities Market) Regulations, 1995 (“the PFUTP Regulations”) by DASL, BBL and other entities. CCL was also found to be instrumental in offloading the unlisted shares of DASL into the market. The trading details of various entities who had traded in the scrip of DASL were collected and analyzed. M/s. Equisearch Broking Private Limited ('noticee/EBPL') a stock broker registered with SEBI and a member of BSE was found to be one of the entities who had also indulged in the manipulation in the scrip of DASL by facilitating the transfer of unlisted shares of DASL on behalf of its client CCL and was thereby alleged to have contravened the provisions of SEBI Act, 1992 ('SEBI Act'), the PFUTP Regulations and the SEBI (Stock Brokers and Sub- brokers) Regulations, 1992 ('Broker Regulations').
Page 4 of 18 iii. Enquiry after more than three years from the dates of obtaining discharge from its clients and after completing settlements in this scrip as per rules and regulations at the BSE is clearly a case of great delay for initiation of any proceedings against it and on this ground alone the notice is liable to be dismissed. iv. Transactions in DASL were for its client CCL whose orders were carried out on BOLT. They issued contract notes and contractual obligations were fulfilled. There was no proprietary trading in DASL scrip and its gain was confined to only brokerage income, which is its main business. v. It had no knowledge that its client CCL was dealing through some other broker in concert with clients of other brokers. vi. The volume of alleged synchronized trades is comparatively very negligible in terms of their clients volume of business with it . vii. There is no finding of fact against it as to the aiding and abetting their clients in manipulating the DASL scrip price on the basis of any cogent evidence. viii. They were already penalized once by BSE for dealing in DASL shares vide letter dated September 13, 2005.
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