Sebi suspends another company in money laundering crackdown

Sebi suspends another company in money laundering crackdown

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday suspended trading in Kamalakshi Finance Corp (KFCL), widening the crackdown against shell companies used to allegedly launder money through the stock exchange route.

In an interim order, the regulator barred a little more than 30 entities, including the promoters of Kamalakshi, from accessing the capital market. This is the fourth order by Sebi in its probe in this regard, where unscrupulous entities apparently attempted to launder up to Rs 20,000 crore. Sebi has so far suspended 27 listed companies and a little over 400 entities for manipulating the securities market to evade tax.