sebi:WTM/VKC/ID-7/147/2008
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Facts / Headnote
Charges of manipulation and creation of false market in Cyberspace scrip held established against promoters and connected noticees
Provisions invoked
- s. 11B
- s. 11
- s. 11(4)
- s. 19
- s. 439
Regulations
- Reg. 11
- Reg. 2(c)
- Reg. 3
- Reg. 4
- Reg. 4(a)
Holding
The promoters of Cyberspace viz. Arvind Johari, A.K. Johari and G.N. Johari acting in concert with shell/front companies created a false market by circular trading to generate artificial volume and price, violating Regulations 3 and 4(a)-(d) of the PFUTP Regulations, 1995, and the charges against the connected noticees were held established.
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Page 2 of 52 3. Rekha Nathani for his son Anand Nathani, director of Sipra Educational Career Foundation P Ltd 4. Sunita Malik, Girish Malik and Tarun Malik directors of Amit Inter Chemicals Ltd, Lucknow.
Page 3 of 52 2. Cyberspace diversified its business into the business of software development and exports and claimed to have business partners such as Microsoft, Oracle and Nortel in India and tie up with Lotus International Development Corporation for setting up of National Authorised Support Centre for Lotus International Development Corporation at the Company’s Mumbai Office. In 2000, the company issued 49,30,000 shares of Rs 2/- each at a premium of Rs 184/- on preferential basis inter alia to Financial Institutions such as UTI, GIC and others.
Page 4 of 52 6. Investigations also revealed that the promoters of Cyberspace and CCL had acted in concert with their twenty shell companies and circulated the shares amongst themselves with a view to raise the price and volume of the scrip artificially and they created false market. Thereafter, CCL defaulted and the price of the scrip started crashing by 16% on daily basis, which culminated into the present proceedings and forty eight show cause notices were issued to 1) Arvind Johari 2) G. N. Johari 3) A. K. Johari 4) Rosewood Tradelink Pvt. Ltd. 5) Pradeepak Finance Manufacturing and Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. 6) Shivam Multi Services Ltd. 7) Amit Inter Chemicals Ltd. 8) Sipra Education Career Foundation P. Ltd. 9) Calculus Soft-Tel Pvt. Ltd. 10) Nucleus Soft-Tel Pvt. Ltd. 11) Octopus Soft-Tel Pvt. Ltd. 12) Kamarao Plastique Pvt. Ltd 13) Ramesh C. Shah 14) Pratik R Shah 15) Delta Investments 16) Shreeji Investments 17) Arihant Investments 18) Kamal Infosys Ltd 19) Country Informtech Services Pvt. Ltd. 20) Tirupati Share Registry P. Ltd. 21) Harshad Murlidhar Shah (Shivam Multiservices Ltd.) 22) Harshad Murlidhar Shah (Rosewood Tradelinks P. Ltd.) 23) Harshad Murlidhar Shah (Pradeepak Finance Manufacturing and Consultancy Services P. Ltd.) 24) Ashok Ramchandani (Shivam Multi Services Ltd.) 25) Pradeep Gupta, ( Pradeepak Finance Manufacturing and Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd.) 26) Rajendra Mehta (Pradeepak Finance Manufacturing and Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd) 27) Raj
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