The document summarizes the 2005 IPO scam in India. It describes how certain individuals opened thousands of fake demat accounts using aliases to manipulate share prices during initial public offerings. They would apply for IPO shares through these fake accounts, receive financing illegally, then transfer shares and profits to main accounts. The scam impacted over 50 IPOs and involved complicit brokers, banks, depository participants like Karvy, and over 1 lakh fake accounts. While SEBI initially cleared NSDL of any wrongdoing, it is reexamining NSDL's oversight failures that allowed the loopholes exploited by the scamsters.

1. Role of NSDL in the 2005 scam involving Initial Public Offerings BY- Rohit Deshmukh 2010185 Rohit Kumar Garg 2010186

2. Agenda- The Scam Masterminds How it was operated? Motive Detection of Scam Major IPOs affected Banks and DPs involved Role of NSDL Current Status References

3. The Scam- It started in August, 2004. It involved manipulation of the primary market by using fictitious or benami demat accounts. Manipulators were syndicate of investors, DPs and Banks. There were 53 IPOs 5 crore Shares, 1 Lac Bogus Demat a/c.

4. Masterminds behind Scam- Roopalben SugandhInvestments Zaveri’s Budhwani’s & Sakseria’s Along with the Broker-Investors, with support of Banker & DP run the ‘Show-Scam’ for 18 months.

5. The Game Plan- Opening of thousands of benami a/c by a single person. Applied for IPO’s through these accounts. Financing through illegal banks accounts. Off- Market transfer of shares to first holder account. Sold on first day of listing.

6. Motive- The motive was to make windfall gains from the price difference between the IPO price and the listing price. For eg. Himani Patel sold her shares of Suzlon for more than Rs. 839/- compared to the IPO price Rs. 510/-. Around Rs. 33,52,600/- were illegally earned by her.

7. How it was detected? First, The IPO scam came to light in 2005 during Yes Bank IPO (RoopalBen Case). Secondly, on October, 2005 when an Income Tax raid on Purshottam Bhudwani. It was found that he was controlling over 5,000 benami demat accounts.

8. Major IPO’s affected- Jet Airways Suzlon Energy JP Hydro Power NTPC PVR Cinemas Etc..

10. Indian Overseas Bank

11. Vijaya Bank

12. City Bank

13. HDFC Bank Ltd.

14. ICICI Bank Ltd.

15. Standard Chartered Bank

16. Karvy Registrar

18. Karvy, The Culprit- More than 95% bogus fictitious Demat accounts have been opened by Karvy DP. Karvy has accepted payment and also refunded the amount to the scamsters It is unearthed that Karvy was issuing single cheque to Panchals, Sugandh Investment for these benami, forged applications. The Syndicate of Karvy, Bharat Overseas Bank, investors, Panchals was transferring refunds belonging to thousands of bogus applicants with help of Electronic Clearing System directly in the bank accounts of Panchals & Others

19. Faults of NSDL- It overlooked the operations of Karvy. Fail to plug the loop holes related to the demat accounts. There was no concept of Know Your Customer policy. They were not up-to-date with their software.

20. Status of IPO Scam Case- Last year SEBI closed the case declaring “Null & Void” charges against NSDL. Now SEBI is revisiting the case afresh to find the faults in their own system and in NSDL. A committee had met on 30 June, 2011 to discuss the case.

21. References- http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ipo-scam-what-when-who-and-how/8980-7-single.html http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sebi-to-discuss-nsdls-role-in-ipo-scam/808891/