SEBI v. Kaashyap Technologies Ltd and others (GDR issue disclosures, 2022)

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A SEBI adjudicating officer fined Kaashyap Technologies and five of its directors Rs 85 lakh in total over a US$16.5 million GDR issue that the order finds was funded through a loan secured on the issue proceeds, with that arrangement hidden from investors. The penalties were imposed for breaches of the PFUTP Regulations and listing obligations.

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

8.5m INR

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars. This regulator states penalties in INR. The figure is recorded as published and is not converted, so it does not appear in the USD totals or medians used elsewhere on this site.

What is alleged to have happened

The adjudicating officer of the Securities and Exchange Board of India decided the matter on 29 July 2022. The noticees were Kaashyap Technologies Ltd, a company listed on the BSE, and five directors: A. Venkatramani, A. Ganesan, R. Dakshinamurthy, A. Sivakumaran and R. Gopalan. The matter concerns a Global Depository Receipt issue made in December 2007.

SEBI alleged that the company issued about 4.9 lakh GDRs worth US$16.5 million, all taken up by a single investor, Clifford Capital Partners. That investor paid with money borrowed from a bank, and the company's managing director signed an account charge agreement pledging the GDR proceeds as collateral for the loan. SEBI alleged that this meant the subscription was effectively financed by the company itself, and that the exchange was told of the issue in a distorted way.

The adjudicating officer found that the company concealed the charge agreement and misled investors into thinking the GDRs were genuinely subscribed. When the subscriber defaulted on about US$10.39 million, the bank recovered that sum from the GDR proceeds, which the order treats as GDRs effectively issued free of cost at other investors' expense. He found the five directors, who had authorised the arrangement at a board meeting, in breach of Section 12A and the PFUTP Regulations.

Under section 15HA the company was penalised Rs 25 lakh, the managing director Rs 20 lakh, and each of the other four directors Rs 10 lakh, Rs 85 lakh in all, payable within 45 days. The order finds additional breaches of the listing agreement by the company.

The record does not show whether any noticee appealed or paid, what happened to the GDR holders, or any criminal case, and the order describes none.

This library tags the matter as misleading issuer disclosure. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's.

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Timeline

1. 2022-07-29 SEBI order

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Record added October 8, 2026. submit a correction.