Winsome Textile Industries (India) faces a punishment of Rs. 72 crore
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17 December 2021, Mumbai:
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the markets regulator, has fined Winsome Textile Industries Limited, its Directors, and two other people approximately Rs. 72 crore in a dispute involving the issuing of global depository receipts (GDR).
This action has been taken against the directors of this Chandigarh-based firm, Ashish Bagrodia, Manish Bagrodia, and Satish Girotra. Winsome Textile, a company that has been around for more than four decades, is recognized for its wide range of yarns and textiles.
According to sources, the business issued 1.29 million GDRs for the US $9.99 million on March 31, 2011, with Pan Asia Advisors Limited serving as the lead manager. Pan Asia Advisors' Managing Director was Arun Panchariya. Vintage FZE was the only subscriber to the GDR issuance, according to the investigation.
Vintage's Managing Director was Mukesh Chauradiya, and Arun was the sole beneficiary. In order to subscribe to the issue, Vintage took out a loan from EURAM Bank. Winsome had offered the GDR earnings as security for the loan.
Aspire Emerging Fund sold convertible equity shares of Rs. 1.11 crore in the Indian securities market, thanks to FII-sub-accounts linked to Arun.
The business issued false corporate statements and failed to notify the SEBI of the GDRs' delisting from the Luxemburg Stock Exchange.
According to the market regulator, Winsome led Indian investors in the securities market to assume that it had received full consideration for GDRs, which was not the case and thereby enticed Indian investors to trade in securities and commit fraud on them.
The Directors were also complicit in the bogus GDR issuing scam. For varied periods of time, the business and its three directors have been prohibited from the securities market.
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