sebi:WTM/TCN/79/IVD1/Dec/08
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Facts / Headnote
Direction to be careful in future and exercise due care and diligence; warning that future violations will be dealt with stringently. No monetary penalty or suspension imposed.
Provisions invoked
- s. 19
Regulations
- Reg. 7
- Reg. 13(2)
- Reg. 28(2)
Parties
- M/s Equisearch Broking Pvt Ltd
Holding
The broker Equisearch Broking Pvt Ltd was directed to exercise due care and diligence in future as a capital market intermediary, with a warning that any future violation of SEBI Act and Regulations would be dealt with stringently. No suspension or monetary penalty was imposed despite findings of circular trading and artificial volume creation by its clients.
Full text
showed that the trades were executed mainly by five member brokers namely Equisearch Broking Pvt. Ltd., Grishma Securities Pvt. Ltd., Ess Ess Intermediaries Pvt. Ltd., Share Aids, broker of SKSE and sub broker of SKSE Securities Ltd., Bonanza Stock Brokers Pvt. Ltd. and Lagan Fincap Leasing Ltd (Sub-broker of Bonanza Stock Broker Ltd) creating artificial volumes in the scrip which distorted market equilibrium of shares. Further, on scrutiny of the trades of these five member brokers, it was found that they had mainly traded on behalf of 7 clients ultimate clients viz. Kajol Impex Ltd., Trans Fiscal Pvt. Ltd., Gaurang G Patel, Samir D Patel, Paresh Champaklal Shah, Umit Vinodbhai Patel and Sudhirbhai Shah.
3.1 Based upon recommendation of the Enquiry Officer, a show cause notice dated May 20, 2005 was issued to the broker in terms of Regulation 13(2) of the Enquiry Regulations, advising them to show cause as to why the
(v) The very fact that orders used to get matched after a considerable time, after inputting them clearly establish the fact they were not synchronized trades with any pre-design motive for matching it. (vi) They clarify that they were not aware as to who were the counter parties of their clients. They had no knowledge as to any rotation of shares taking place between group of people. Further, as the trading pattern of their client clearly showed intra day jobbing, there was no question of suspecting any circular trading or creating of any artificial volume in the market. (vii) They disagree that a nexus could be deemed to have been established just because one of the directors of Trans Fiscal Pvt Ltd., Shri Manish Patel is also a Director of the company. (viii) They did not indulge in any act, which was calculated to create and false or misleading appearance of trading on the securities market Their client’s sale orders were placed on the trading system in the usual way and the resultant trades were accepted and acted upon. The trades were genuine and they reflected a particular trading method and strategy of squaring up of position at the end of the day and to avoid lifting of delivery as far as possible.
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