Sebi to take action against 14,720 entities
Team Udayavani, Apr 7, 2018, 9:51 AM IST
New Delhi: Sebi will take action in a phased manner against 14,720 entities for “non-genuine trades” through illiquid stock option segment, as it clamps down on fraudulent activities in the securities market.
Adjudication proceedings have been initiated against 567 entities involved in such trades in the first phase, according to a Sebi order dated April 5.
The markets regulator came across violations by 14,720 entities, while it was probing 59 entities in a case related to alleged trading irregularities in the stock options segment of the BSE. With regard to 59 entities, Sebi had initiated a preliminary examination in the matter of illiquid stock options for the period from April 1, 2014, to March 31, 2015, during which, it was noticed that the entities were repeatedly incurring significant losses by executing reversal trades in the stock options segment of the BSE.
Another set of entities were repeatedly making significant profits by becoming their counter-parties in orchestrated trades with a common objective of intended execution of the non-genuine trades.
Upon analysis of the trading activity of these entities, Sebi observed that the scheme, plan, device and artifice employed in executing reversal trades in illiquid stock option contracts at “irrational, unrealistic and unreasonable prices”, was prima-facie a fraud on the securities market in as much as it involved non-genuine or manipulative transactions in securities and misuse of the market.
Through an interim order in August 2015, Sebi had restrained the 59 entities from the securities markets till further directions. The interim directions were confirmed by other orders in July 2016 and August 2016 after providing “certain relaxations”.
Later, the scope of investigation was expanded to cover all the entities that had indulged in executing reversal trades in BSE’s Stock Options segment.
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