Real culprits were left free
After forced closure of trading at NSEL that led to the payment problem Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution vide its letter dated 6 th August 2013 instructed FMC to take all possible action against all the parties
FMC focused all its action only against NSEL FMC overextended its actions against even the parent company FTIL FTIL is in no way connected with the trading at NSEL
Investigating authorities confirmed that neither FTIL nor any of its promoters were recipient of any benefit from NSEL operations Adding to that FTIL has never received any dividend or bonus or financial benefit from NSEL
Every paisa of default amount of Rs 5600 crore has been traced to the 22 Defaulters Yet FMC has not followed up with any NSEL Defaulter It has turned a blind eye on the NSEL Defaulters
NSEL insisted FMC & others to initiate immediate action against the defaulters The NSEL Investor Forum has also written to the MoF stating that since the entire money has been traced to the defaulters action should be taken against them
It is not just a question of the FMC stopping operations of NSEL in an arbitrary manner that led to the payment problem Taking this as an excuse it declared FTIL “not fit and proper” to run various exchanges it had set up in several countries Convincing it to forcibly sell its stakes at distress values This led to severe loss to the investors of the FTIL Group
It is strange that FMC never investigated any broking house Broking Houses traded the contracts & acquired clients FMC also never investigated NSEL Defaulters, who owe the money This leaves a big question mark on its intent