SEBI slaps Rs11 cr penalty on RIL firm for insider trading
03 May 2013
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has fined Reliance Petroinvestments India Ltd, a part of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd, Rs11 crore for violating insider trading norms in the shares of erstwhile IPCL before its merger with RIL.
"It may be concluded that by virtue of RPIL having control over IPCL, it was reasonably expected to have access to unpublished price sensitive information of IPCL.
"PIL being the promoter having control over the company holding 46 per cent shares of IPCL is inherently expected to have access to price sensitive information. The company being in such a position it is unacceptable that it was not aware of such major/important decisions of the company IPCL," the SEBI order said.
The findings of the investigation led to the allegation that RPIL was in the possession of unpublished price sensitive information while trading in the scrip of IPCL prior to announcement of declaration of interim dividend and amalgamation of IPCL with Reliance Industries which resulted in violation of regulation 3 of SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 1992.