WhatsApp funding ideas’ land two in hassle with SEBI

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Securities market regulator SEBI on Wednesday imposed a penalty of Rs 25 lakh on Mansoor Rafiq Khanda and Firoz Rafiq Khanda for providing buying and selling ideas via WhatsApp messages and web web sites together with ‘fullonoption’ with out being registered with the regulator as funding advisers.

Upon completion of the investigation, the SEBI had issued instructions in opposition to them in 2016 to impound the illegal features of a sum of Rs 5.04 crore.

In June 2018, the SEBI handed an order in opposition to the people directing them to disgorge the illegal features made by them together with curiosity as decided by the regulator in 2016.

Both the people had filed an attraction earlier than the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT), which was dismissed in January final yr.

“Considering all the facts and circumstances of the case, I hereby impose the monetary penalty of Rs 25,00,000 on the noticees, for not complying with the directions,” mentioned the SEBI order.

 
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