Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman UK Sinha has asserted that curbing black money or collecting revenue is not the primary responsibility of SEBI, there are agencies in the country who are being paid for this job. SEBI’s job is to protect the interest of investors and curb manipulation in the market. It has from time-to-time passed on information to the concerned authorities to clamp down on such illegal activities.
Sinha further said that there have been rising concerns over illegal fund flows in the system and there have been instances that came to the notice of SEBI where stock market was used to carry out illicit money transactions. He highlighted that SEBI started surveillance system on its own, pointing out an instance in the past there where change in the unique plan code was being used to manipulate and evade tax and said that the SEBI took action on frequent changes in the unique plan code and also passed on the information to tax authorities.
Talking about Participatory Notes (PNs) which are being misused, Sinha said the regulator has all the data about entities who are using PNs, who can issue it, who can subscribe to it, all that is very well documented. Furthermore, he noted that people are perhaps missing out that there is a huge difference in participatory notes system today from that of 3-4 years back.
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