The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is investigating all public issues in the past three months after it found in the offering of Nissan Copper that allotments and subsequent sale of shares to some foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were actually structured deals. It has been discovered that at least three portfolio investors have sold all the shares they purchased in the IPO on the first day of their listing. SEBI was also looking at the role of merchant bankers in these issues. SEBI investigators have also asked stock exchanges for details of public offers and first few days’ trading of Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision, Minar International, and Cairn India. The regulator is probing whether merchant bankers or the companies themselves helped some investors to use the FII route to corner shares without directly participating in the IPO process.
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