Resignation of 2 Independent Director - Sunil Kumar and Neharika Vohra in Nov’19 on misappropriation of FD of Zee by Yes Bank for squaring off loan of other Essel grp entities
Mr Subash Chandra, then chairman of Zeel/Essel grp provided LoC to yes bank on 200 Cr Loan o/s in Essel Green Mobility Limited. as per LoC, he accepted that Essel group companies incl Zee will have FD of 200 Cr that can be used in event of default
Now, this LoC is known to only few person in mgt and even Board of zee.
Post that, Yes Bank adjusted the FD of Zee and then from these following 7 entities - Zee recovered, which is also mentioned as associate in Annual report of Zee
Now when Zee FD of 200 Cr appropriated by Yes Bank.
Zee submitted SEBI that funds of Zee FD returned by associate in full as detailed below 👇
When SEBI investigated abt this 200 Cr, found 200 Cr followed circuitous route where money originated from Zee or other listed Essel grp entity and tiff to Zee via multiple layered transaction.
Example of one of these -
Noted that Subhash Chandra and Punit Goenka were direct beneficiaries of Fund diversion.
Post that Promoter shareholding also dropped from 41.62% to 3.99% over the period.
This is just “INTERIM Order”,Investigation is still underway.
Final Direction by SEBI
- Cease to hold position of Director or KMP in any listed Co or it’s subsidiary untill further order
- Place order before board within 7 d from receipt
Order shall take effect IMMEDIATELY
Zee NCLT case Proceeding-
Hearing on 16-Jun
Previous Hearing - NCLT asked exchanges to review NOC given to Sony Merger after Shirpur Order
which Zee appealed in NCLAT
NCLAT set aside order and asked NCLT to hear Zee Opinion on shirpur Gold.
SEBI order against ZEE Entertainment has jolted the impending Merger between ZEE & Sony
A thread 🧵 on case Shirpur Gold Refinery - Fund Diversion
About Narmada Gelatine - A 200 crore market cap co-manufactures gelatine with decent fundamentals
Now, Pioneer Jellice India (one of the largest manufacturers of Gelatine in India) bought 75% stake in the company at INR 229 per share. Triggering Open offer at INR 303 per share
Power Ministry has directed CERC to undertake the process of market coupling in a timely manner.
BIG Negative for IEX - this will potentially take away IEX’s moat of being the most dependable platform price discovery. #IEX
Market Coupling means a uniform market clearing price for buyers and sellers in all exchanges operating in an area.
Market coupling is the process where the collected orders from all the power exchanges are aggregated together and then matched to discover a uniform market clearing price.
Preface SEBI order covers 1. Misleading Promoter SHP 2. Undisclosed & Non - audited subsidiaries FS 3. DAUM Settlement 4. Misleading Disclosures 5. Statutory Auditor & Indep Director - inelligible 6. Accounting irregularities
This order is one of the best, give it a read
1. Misleading Promoter Shareholding - comparing promoter shareholding disclosed to the exchanges & available with RTA, Sebi found promoters inflated shareholding by 10% to 29% since 2016🧐😯 (see table below), we wrote this about in our previous thread
Most of stakeholders get flown away with big order intake or order book size which is XX times of TTM revenue. This is ❌️ approach
Always see the timelines of revenue realization of order book which will give you clear picture of potential future annual revenue from order book
Here is one example
Data Patterns which is having order book of INR 880 crores will be realized & executed in next two years thereby generating revenue of INR 440 crores which is in-line with current TTM revenue of INR 449 crores.