SEBI Imposes Rs 72 Crore Fine On Winsome Textile Industries

New Delhi: Markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India ((*72*)) on Wednesday slapped a wonderful of over Rs 72 crore on Winsome Textile Industries Limited, its administrators and two different people in a matter pertaining to issuance of worldwide depository receipts (GDR) by the agency.The administrators dealing with the wonderful are Ashish Bagrodia, Manish Bagrodia and Satish Girotra.Winsome issued 1.29 million GDRs amounting to $9.99 million on March 31, 2011 and Pan Asia Advisors Limited was the lead supervisor of the difficulty. Arun Panchariya was the managing director of Pan Asia Advisors.Investigation revealed that Vintage FZE was the only subscriber of the GDR difficulty. Mukesh Chauradiya was Vintage's managing director and Panchariya was its 100 per cent beneficiary.Vintage availed mortgage from EURAM Bank so as to subscribe to the difficulty. For the mortgage, Winsome had pledged the GDR proceeds as collateral.Further, FII-sub-accounts linked to Panchariya transformed the GDRs and Aspire Emerging Fund bought transformed fairness shares price Rs 1.11 crore within the Indian securities market.In addition, the agency made deceptive company bulletins and likewise failed to tell the inventory exchanges in regards to the delisting of the GDRs from the Luxemburg Stock alternate."Winsome caused the investors in the securities market in India to believe that the full consideration for GDRs had been received by it which was not true and thereby, induced the investors in India to deal in securities, and committed fraud on the investors in India," (*72*) stated.The administrators additionally acted as a celebration to the fraudulent scheme of GDR issuance.The markets regulator has additionally barred Winsome, its three administrators, Vintage  FZE, Arun Panchariya, Mukesh Chauradiya, Pan Asia Advisors and 7 funds from the securities marketplace for various time intervals.Also, Aspire Emerging Fund has been directed to disgorge unlawful positive factors of over Rs 1.11 crore made by means of sale of fairness shares, together with 12 per cent curiosity from the date of sale of fairness shares until the fee of disgorgement quantity.For markets norms violations, (*72*) has levied Rs 4.4 crore wonderful on the agency, Rs 67 crore wonderful on Mr Panchariya, Rs 59 lakh wonderful on the three administrators and Rs 67 lakh wonderful on Mukesh Chauradiya.