Criminal case filed over share buyback leak

MG News | August 07, 2025 at 05:43 PM GMT+05:00
August 07, 2025 (MLN): The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has filed a criminal complaint against the Company Secretary of a listed firm, four of his close relatives and a private limited company over alleged insider trading violations under the Securities Act, 2015.
The complaint, filed at the Special Court
(Offenses in Banks), Sindh at Karachi and admitted as Complaint No. 14 of 2025,
follows a detailed investigation by the SECP into suspicious trading activity
between August 22 and October 12, 2023.
According to the SECP, certain clients
accumulated shares of a listed company during this period while material
information regarding a planned share buy-back and delisting was not yet
public.
The Commission determined that the Company Secretary had access to this
price-sensitive information as early as August 11, 2023, through his official
role managing the delisting process.
The investigation found that the Company
Secretary shared this confidential information with his relatives and the CEO
of an associated firm and allegedly financed the purchase of shares using
insider knowledge.
The accused parties then sold the shares after the public disclosure of the
delisting, generating illicit gains of Rs338.085 million. None of the accused
had previously traded in the company’s shares.
Under
the Securities Act, 2015, insider trading is a criminal offense punishable by
up to three years in prison, or a fine not exceeding Rs200m, or up to three
times the amount of illicit gain.
SECP is committed to take effective supervision and enforcement actions to
ensure the integrity of the capital market and protect investors from
misconduct.
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