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In this video of Josh Money, we are going to discuss the infamous Sahara India Scam. Sahara India was a privately held company founded in 1978. Sahara Scam is mainly associated with the two companies of Sahara Group that is Sahara India Real Estate Corporation Ltd. (SIRECL) and Sahara Housing Investment Corporation Ltd. (SHICL).

Sahara India vs SEBI

On 30th September 2009, Sahara Prime City (A company of Sahara Group) filed a DRHP with SEBI for its IPO. While analysing the DRHP, SEBI detected some errors in the fund-raising process of the two companies of Sahara Group (Sahara India Real Estate Corporation and Sahara Housing Investment Corporation). During that exact period, SEBI received complaints on 25th December 2009 and 4th January 2010 that SIRECL and SHICL are issuing Optionally Fully Convertible Debentures (OFCDs) and raising funds in the wrong way. Because of these complaints, SEBI’s doubts were proven right.

Consequently, SEBI started investigating these two companies and asked Sahara India Group for clarification regarding their method of fundraising. That’s when SEBI learnt that SIRECL and SHICL have raised around Rs. 24000 Crores from 2-2.5 Crores investors via OFCD. SEBI claimed its jurisdiction and objected to why Sahara has not taken permission from it. Sahara claimed that the said bonds are hybrid product, thus does not come under the jurisdiction of SEBI, instead is governed by the Registrar of Companies (ROC) under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, from which the two companies of Sahara has already taken permission and submitted the DRHP with ROC before issuing the bonds. SEBI in return ordered Sahara’s two companies to stop raising money via OFCD and return the money to investors with 15% interest. Sahara approached Allahabad High Court challenging the SEBI’s order. In December 2010, Allahabad High Court restricted SEBI’s order. In April 2011, Allahabad High Court cancelled the mentioned restriction and the case eventually came to the Supreme Court of India.

Reports also suggested that between the time that SEBI first initiated the inquiry and Roy’s eventual detention, there has not been a single instance of an investor in either of the two Sahara firms actually filing a police complaint or going to court. However, this also points out the possibility of large-scale money laundering by the Sahara Group to hide black money. The Group has failed to satisfy the Supreme Court’s order to provide evidence of the source of funds used to make the claimed return payments.

Final Court Order on Sahara Scam:

On 26th February 2014, the Chairman of Sahara Group, Subrata Roy was arrested upon the orders of the Supreme Court. In November 2017, Enforcement Directorate charged Sahara Group with a case of money laundering. Sahara Group has had a shady business for a long time. But this time, they’ve finally been caught in sight.

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