SC panel puts six entities under lens for alleged trading in Adani shares
Hindustan TimesSix entities including four foreign portfolio investors are under lens for suspicious trading in Adani group shares prior to the release of the damning Hindenburg report, the Supreme Court-appointed expert committee has said. There was a build up of short positions in the Adani scips prior to the January 24 release of the Hindenburg report, and substantial profits were booked thereafter as stocks crashed, the 178-page report said. "The trading pattern here is suspicious because of the build up of short positions by these entities in the Adani scrips prior to the Hindenburg report, and substantial profits earned by them by squaring off their short positions after publication of the Hindenburg report on January 24, 2023," the expert committee said. The report said an analysis in trading of apples-to-port group's flagship firm, Adani Enterprises Ltd shares in four patches between March 1, 2020 and December 31,2022, a month before publication of the Hindenburg report and meltdown of Adani shares, showed the state-owned LIC was the biggest loser as it sold offs 50 lakh shares of the company when prices hovered around ₹300 and bought 4.8 crore shares when the prices ranged between ₹1,031 and ₹3,859.