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Anil Ambani's flagship firm, Reliance Infrastructure Ltd is set to receive Rs 1,100 crore equity infusion from the promoters and another Rs 1,910 crore from two Mumbai-based investment firms, according to a filing by the company. The board of the company had on Thursday approved Rs 6,000 crore fund raise plan, of which Rs 3,014 crore was to be raised through preferential allotment of shares and Rs 3,000 crore share issue to institutional buyers. In the first phase, the company is launching Rs 3,014 crore preferential placement under which 12.56 crore equity shares or convertible warrants will be issued at an issue price of Rs 240 per share, according to the company's postal ballot seeking shareholder nod for share issue. Out of this, Rs 1,104 crore will be invested by promoters of Reliance Infrastructure through promoter company Risee Infinity Private Limited. Risee will subscribe to 4.60 crore shares. The two other investors participating in the preferential issue are Mumbai-based
Markets regulator Sebi has debarred 14 entities including, Rana Sugars promoters' and other related entities from the securities markets for two years and slapped a Rs 63-crore fine on them on charges of diversion of funds. The regulator also prohibited Inder Pratap Singh Rana (promoter), Ranjit Singh Rana (Chairman), Veer Pratap Singh Rana (MD), Gurjeet Singh Rana, Karan Pratap Singh Rana, Rajbans Kaur, Preet Inder Singh Rana and Sukhjinder Kaur (promoter) from holding any position as director or key managerial person of any other listed company for two years. Ranjit Singh, Veer Pratap and Sukhjinder Kaur were also the promoters of Rana Sugars Ltd, as per the exchange data. Individually, Sebi imposed penalties in the range of Rs 3 crore to 7 crore on Rana Sugars, its promoters, and other related entities. "I find that noticee No 1 to 9, who are promoters of RSL and beneficiaries of such diversion of funds from RSL, have violated PFUTP (Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade ..
Vinod Adani, the little known elder brother of Adani group founder Gautam Adani, is part of the promoter group, the conglomerate has said after questions were raised about his status following short seller Hindenburg Research naming him prominently in its scathing report on the Adani group. "We would like to submit that Gautam Adani and Rajesh Adani are individual promoters of various listed entities within the Adani group and Vinod Adani is an immediate relative of the individual promoters," the group's flagship Adani Enterprises said in a stock exchange filing on Thursday. Accordingly, as per the applicable Indian regulations, "Vinod Adani is part of the 'promoter group' of various listed entities within the Adani group." In response to Hindenburg questioning the role of Vinod Adani, 74, in the Adani group where it alleged "brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud" and use of offshore shell companies to inflate stock prices, the apples-to-airport conglomerate had in January