Front Running

Labdhi Enterprises and Falguni Ketan Parekh have settled with Sebi a case pertaining to alleged front running of trades of Tata Absolute Return Fund after a payment of Rs 67.62 lakh as settlement amount. Tata Absolute Return Fund is a scheme of Tata AIF (Alternative Investment Fund). The settlement came after Labdhi Enterprises and Parekh filed a joint settlement application to settle the pending proceedings "without admitting or denying the findings". "The proceedings that may have been initiated for the alleged violations ... are settled qua the applicants," Sebi said in its settlement order passed on Friday. As per the order, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) conducted a preliminary examination to ascertain that certain entities had been front running the trades of Tata Absolute Return Fund (TARF) between December 2019 and August 2020. Thereafter, Sebi passed an interim order in August 2020, directing the applicants to deposit the proceeds that they had made fro

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The Supreme Court has upheld a 2011 order by Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) giving it a boost while prosecuting 'front running' cases. Front running means buying or selling of securities ahead of a large order so as to benefit from the subsequent price move. Sebi's powers in the matter came under cloud after the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) in 2012 struck down the regulator's order against Dipak Patel, an employee of a Mauritius based fund manager and his relatives, who executed trades based on information passed on by him. SAT's position was that the front running rules could not invoked for persons other than the intermediary. Allowing Sebi's appeals on Wednesday, the bench of NV Ramana and Ranjan Gogoi said, "Taking into consideration the facts and circumstances of the case before us and the law laid down herein above and SEBI v. Kishore R. Ajmera (Supra) can only lead to one conclusion that concerned parties to the transaction were involved in an apparent ...

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