SEBI v. Texmo Pipes and Products Ltd. and others (GDR issue, 2022)

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In June 2022 a SEBI adjudicating officer penalised Texmo Pipes and Products Ltd. and six individuals over its April 2011 GDR issue of USD 9.99 million, which the order finds was subscribed by a single entity using a bank loan secured against the company's own proceeds. The penalties fixed amount to Rs 10.87 crore, with a further Rs 25 lakh on the company contingent on an appeal.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

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Disgorgement

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Prejudgment interest

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Total relief

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Alleged gain

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Penalty as published

109m INR

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What is alleged to have happened

An adjudicating officer of SEBI issued this order on 28 June 2022 in the matter of the GDR issue of Texmo Pipes and Products Ltd., a plastic pipes maker listed on BSE and NSE. The seven noticees were the company, three of its directors (Sanjay Agrawal, Vijay Prasad Pappu and Shanti Lal Badera), its company secretary Rishabh Kumar Jain, and two outside figures, Arun Panchariya and Mukesh Chauradiya. Show cause notices were issued in July 2019.

SEBI alleged that the company issued 6,27,500 GDRs on 11 April 2011 to raise USD 9.99 million, with the offering listed in Luxembourg. The offering documents named four subscribers, but the bank's records showed the whole issue was subscribed by one entity, Vintage FZE, which borrowed the money from Euram Bank and had a loan agreement signed by Mr Chauradiya. The company's chairman signed a pledge over the company's own account at the bank to secure that loan, and SEBI linked Vintage and the lead manager to Mr Panchariya.

The order finds that the issue was a fraud on investors, because the company announced genuine subscription while its own proceeds stood behind the loan, and that the pledge and loan were not properly disclosed. It also records that about USD 3.49 million, roughly Rs 17.9 crore, had been paid out at the expense of shareholders with nothing on record to show it was returned. The violations found include section 12A of the SEBI Act and the 2003 fraud regulations, and for the company listing agreement clauses.

The penalties were Rs 10,00,00,000 on the company, Rs 20,00,000 each on Mr Agrawal and Mr Pappu, Rs 10,00,000 on Mr Badera, Rs 2,00,000 on Mr Jain, Rs 25,00,000 on Mr Panchariya and Rs 10,00,000 on Mr Chauradiya, together Rs 10.87 crore. The company was also fined Rs 25 lakh under the securities contracts act, payable only depending on the outcome of a pending Supreme Court appeal in another matter, and that sum is not counted in the figure recorded here.

The record does not show whether the penalties were paid or appealed, or any recovery for investors. The order does not mention a criminal case; it notes that SEBI had earlier acted against two of the noticees over similar GDR schemes.

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Timeline

1. 2022-06-28 SEBI adjudication order

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