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SCAMSA1992HARSHAD MEHTA SECURITIES SCAM

THE MEMOIR OF THE INDIAN MARKETS SCAMS

lot is heard in the past and till today we hear a lot about the financial markets scams. Financial Market Scams are the attempts by scamsters who indulge in crooked activities to fulfil the bellies of their own at the stake of

common man. These scamsters through various fraudulent activities gather big chunks of money. Our report is

one such initiative to highlight a few scams in India, how it was done and the money that was involved in these scams.

Harshad Mehta known to be âBig Bull of the trading floorâ was an Indian stockbrokeris alleged to have engineered the rise in the BSE stock exchange in the year 1992.He and his associates draw off funds from inter-bank transactions and bought shares heavily at a premium across many segments, triggering a rise in the Sensex. When the scheme was exposed, the banks started demanding the

money back, causing the collapse. The broker was dipping illegally into the bank

ing system to finance his buying. The amount that was involved in this scam wasapprox. to Rs. 5000 crs.

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Rs. 5000 crs

How Harshad Mehta financed his deals?

Harshad Mehta worked on the mechanism of READY FORWARD (RF) DEALS. It's a secured short-term (typically 15-day) loan

from one bank to another. The bank lends against government securities. The borrowing bank actually sells the securities to the lending bank and buys them backat the end of the period of the loan, typically at a slightly higher price. Thedeal was done between the banks through brokers for commissions. In this settlement process, deliveries of securities and payments were

made through the broker. That is, the seller handed over the securities to the broker, who passed them to the buyer, while the buyer gave the cheque to the broker, who then made the payment to the seller. Thus , both the parties may not know each

other. It was this idea that made the mind of Harshad to involve into the modusoperandi. Harshad in his scam took the help of Bank Receipts. In a ready forward

deal, securities were not moved back and forth in actuality. Instead, the borrower, i.e. the

seller of securities, gave the buyer of the securities a BR. A BR âconfirms the saleof securities. It acts as a receipt for the money received by the selling bank.Hence the name - bank receipt promises to deliver the securities to the buyer and the seller holds the securities in trust of the buyer.

Having figured this out, Mehta needed banks, which issue fake BRs, or BRs not backed by any government securities. âTwo

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small and little known banks - the Bank of Karad (BOK) and the Metropolitan Co-operative Bank (MCB) - came in handy for this purpose. These banks were willing to issue BRs as and when required, for a feeâ. Once these fake BRs were issued, theywere passed on to other banks and the banks in turn gave money to Mehta, obviously assuming that they were lending against

government securities when this was not really the case. This money was used todrive up the prices of stocks in the stock

market. When time came to return the money, the shares were sold for a profit and the BR was retired. The money due to the

bank was returned. The game went on as long as the stock prices kept going up, and no one had a clue about Mehta's modus

operandi. Once the scam was exposed though, a lot of banks were left holding BRswhich did not have any value - the banking system had been swindled of a whopping Rs 4,000 crore.

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SCAMS2001KETAN PAREKH SCAM

Ketan Parekh is a former stock broker from Mumbai, India, who was convicted in 2008, for involvement

in the Indian stock market manipulation scam in late 1999-2001. He was involvedin rigging up the stock prices. A chartered accountant by training, Parekh camefrom a family of brokers, which helped him create a trading ring of his own. Between 1999 and 2000, when technology bubble was seen in the

world, the Indian Markets at that time were also flourishing, he started riggingup stock prices. He rigged up the prices by borrowing from big banks and Investment firms. By the time he became famous to rig the prices everyone be it investment firms, promoters of listed companies, overseas corporate bodies etc , all were ready to hand the money to him. Scrips like Visualsoft rose from Rs 625 to Rs 8,448 per

share and Sonata Software from Rs 90 to Rs 2,150. The inflated stocks had to bedumped to someone in the end, and Parekh

used the financial institutions like the UTI to control the situations. A bear cartel started disrupting Parekh's party by hammering prices of the K-10 stocks,

it was this that led to the collapse of the market and the scam discovered.


Rs. 1250 crs

2001UTI SCAM

Rs. 4800 crs

The Unit Trust of India is the largest mutual fund in the country created in 196

4. The UTI (of which the US-64 scheme is the largest) was set-up specifically tochannel small savings of citizens into

investments giving relatively large returns/interest. The investments of the individuals were basically done in debt, but after the liberalization of the economy more allocation was made to equity investments. The US-64 did not came under SEBI regulations, its investment details were kept secret and the chairman has arbitrary powers to personally

decide its investment. This led Mr. P Subramanyam the chairman to involve himself in the fraud. Small investor's funds were .S. used to promote big business houses, shower favours to politicians, and invest huge amounts in junk bonds all for a fat

commission. He was a key player in the Ketan Parekh scam. Huge amount of UTI funds were channelled into the infamous K-10 list of Keten Parekh stock, such as Himachal Futuristic, Zee Telefilims, Global Tele, DSQ, etc. The UTI continued to buy these shares even when their market value began to crash in mid-2000, in order to prop up the share values of these stocks. This whole story led to the ultimate decline of the fund.

2008SATYAM SCAM

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Rs. 10,000 crs

Ramalinga Raju founded Satyam Computers in 1987 and was its Chairman until January 7, 2009 when he resigned from the Satyam. In January 2009, the founder indicated that Satyam's accounts had been

falsified over a number of years. He admitted to an âaccounting fraudâ to the tune 00 crore. In order to hide the company's poor performance during the quarters heindulged in falsifying accounts. Also, he had also used dummy accounts to tradein Satyam's shares, violating the insider trading norm. The amount of the scandal than grew bigger than the Rs. 7000 crore highlighted earlier.


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SCAMS2008THE 2-G SPECTRUM SWINDLE

The 2G spectrum scam involved officials in the government of India illegally undercharging mobile telephony companies for frequency allocation licenses, which they would use to create for 2G

subscriptions for cell phones. It is alleged that A. Raja arranged the sale of the 2G spectrum licenses

below their market value. Swan Telecom, a new company with few assets, bought alicense for Rs. 1537 crore. Shortly thereafter, the board sold 45% of the company to Etisalat for Rs. 4200 crore. Similarly, a

company formerly invested in real estate and not telecom, the Unitech Group, purchased a license for Rs. 1661 crore and the company board soon after sold a 60%stake in their wireless division for Rs.

6200 crore to Telenor. The nature of the selling of the licenses was that licenses were to be sold at market value, and the fact

that the licenses were quickly resold at a huge profit indicates that the selling agents issued the licenses below market value.

The 2-G Spectrum case is still on and the approximate figures that this scam involves is Rs. 60000 crs which the street knows.


Rs. 60,000 crs

2009MADHU KODA SCAM

Rs. 4000 crs

Madhu Koda (born January 6, 1971) is an Indian politician who was Chief Ministerof Jharkhand from 2006 to 2008. He was sworn in as the fifth Chief Minister ofJharkhand on September 18, 2006 and remained in office until he resigned on 23 August 2008. He is alleged to have involved in Money-

laundering and mining scam. He was charged with laundering money worth over Rs.4000 crores.

In nationwide raids by the Enforcement Directorate, assets allegedly worth Rs. 4000 crore â almost a fifth of the annual budget of the state he once ruled â were uhed. Among others, these assets were reported to include hotels and three companies in Mumbai, property in Kolkata, a hotel in Thailand, and a coal mine in Libe

ria.

OTHER SCAMS DIRECTORY

These are some of the big scams that we have highlighted above. The practice offraud, money laundering, politics, bribery, dirty money is seen in abundance inother cases too. We are highlighting the scams and the money involved in the same.

Year 1992 1994 1995

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Scam Name Harshad Mehta Securities Scam Sugar Import Scam Preferential AllotmentScam Meghalaya Forest scam Yugoslav Dinar Scam

Approx. Amt. Involved ( Rs. Crs) 4,000 650

5,000 300 400


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SCAMSOTHER SCAMS DIRECTORYYear 1996 Scam Name Fertiliser Import Scam Urea Scam Bihar Fodder Scam 1996 SukhRam Telecom Scam SNC Lavalin Power Project Scam Bihar Land Scandal C.R. Bhansali Stock Scam 1998 2001 Teak Plantation Swindle UTI Scam Dinesh Dalmia Stock ScamKetan Parekh Securities Scam 2002 2003 2005 Sanjay Agarwal Home Trade Scam Telgi Stamp Paper Scam IPO-Demat Scam Bihar Flood Relief Scam Scorpene Submarine Scam 2006 Punjab's City Centre Project Scam Taj Corridor Scam 2008 Pune BillionaireHassan Ali Khan Tax Default The Satyam Scam Army Ration Pilferage Scam 2G Spectrum Swindle State Bank of Saurashtra Scam Illegal Monies In Swiss Banks 2009 TheJharkhand Medical Equipment Scam Rice Export Scam Orissa Mine Scam Madhu Koda Mining Scam

Approx. Amt. Involved ( Rs. Crs) 1,300


133

950

1,500 374

400

1,200 8,000 4,800

595

1,250 600

172

146

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18,978 1,500

175

50,000 10,000 5,000

60,000

95

71,00,000 130

2,500 7,000 4,000


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The frauds in the financial markets have been known since years. The greed of the scamsters leads

to involvement in unhealthy practices and corruption. It's the common man who has always been at stake. The poorer become poorer and the richer the richest. It's not that these scams are coming to the highlight these days it's a sin that ispresent since years. Bribery, dirty money, greed, politics

have all helped the scamsters to survive. And when they are actually caught in the trap it's too late and the Common Man already suffers. So, always be carefulwith your investments everywhere.

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