sebi:WTM/RKA/MIRSD/45/2013

SEBI · SEBI · 2013-05-28 · Rajeev Kumar Agarwal, Whole Time Member

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Facts / Headnote

Directions issued restraining noticees from securities market, prohibiting unregistered portfolio management activities, and requiring withdrawal of advertisements; order without prejudice to further action

Provisions invoked

• s. 19
• s. 12(1)
• s. 12A

Regulations

• Reg. 3
• Reg. 2(1)(c)
• Reg. 4(1)

Parties

• Sri Sunil Laxman Kale
• Trendline

Holding

Sri Sunil Laxman Kale and Trendline violated section 12(1) of the SEBI Act read with regulation 3 of the Portfolio Managers Regulations by offering portfolio management services without registration, and also acted in a fraudulent and deceitful manner attracting section 12A and the PFUTP Regulations. They are restrained from accessing the securities market and directed to cease unregistered activities and withdraw all related advertisements.

Full text

2 • Your returns will be unlimited at upper end, you will get atleast 50% at lower end in one year. We will 50% partner of you. We will not only share profit, we will share your loss also. This gives guarantee of our efforts. We will work as 'Personal Finance Manager' for you. (e). a guaranteed return scheme was being offered by Sri Sunil Laxman Kale and Trendline to their clients; (f). the services offered by Sri Sunil Laxman Kale and Trendline are in the nature of portfolio management services relating to funds; and (g). as per SEBI records, neither Sri Sunil Laxman Kale nor Trendline has obtained certificate of registration to act as a portfolio manager as required in terms of section 12(1) of the Act read with regulation 3 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Portfolio Managers) Regulations, 1993 (hereinafter referred to as "the Regulations")

3 6. In view of the aforesaid, I find that Trendline and its founder/director Sri Sunil Laxman Kale were soliciting the general public to entrust their funds and securities to them and offering portfolio management and advisory services without obtaining the certificate of registration from SEBI to act as a portfolio manager as required under section 12(1) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") read with the Portfolio Managers Regulations. The relevant provisions of the Act and the Regulations are reproduced as following:-

4 (3) an active concealment of a fact by a person having knowledge or belief of the fact; (4) a promise made without any intention of performing it; (5) a representation made in a reckless and careless manner whether it be true or false; (6) any such act or omission as any other law specifically declares to be fraudulent; (7) deceptive behaviour by a person depriving another of informed consent or full participation; (8) a false statement made without reasonable ground for believing it to be true; (9) the act of an issuer of securities giving out misinformation that affects the market price of the security, resulting in investors being effectively misled even though they did not rely on the statement itself or anything derived from it other than the market price.

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