Capital markets regulator Sebi on Friday imposed penalities amounting to ₹35 lakh on seven entities over non-genuine trades in illiquid inventory choices on BSE.
In seven separate orders, the regulator slapped a tremendous of ₹5 lakh every on Vinita Agarwal, Arjun Sahoo HUF, Banwari Lal Arora HUF, Pranita Kayan, Dazy Jain, Manish Kumar Soni and Vinit Kumar Agrawal.
The orders got here after Sebi noticed large-scale reversal trades within the inventory choices phase on BSE, resulting in creation of synthetic commerce volumes within the phase.
The Securities and Change Board of India (SEBI) performed a probe into the buying and selling exercise in illiquid inventory choices on BSE for the interval April 2014 to September 2015 after observing large-scale reversal of trades within the inventory choices phase.
Reversal trades are alleged to be non-genuine in nature as they’re executed in regular course of buying and selling, which ends up in false or deceptive look of buying and selling when it comes to producing synthetic volumes, Sebi mentioned.
By indulging in such trades in inventory choices, they violated the provisions of PFUTP (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Commerce Practices) rules, it added.
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