Attack on Sebi’s integrity, bid to malign me: Buch junks charge

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Dismissing allegations made by US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research, Madhabi Puri Buch, Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), on Sunday denied any wrongdoing...

Hindenburg had, in a report released on Saturday, made serious allegations regarding the involvement of Buch and her husband Dhaval Buch, a senior adviser with Blackstone, in a Mauritius-based offshore fund, IPE Plus Fund 1, which allegedly received investments from a Bermuda-based fund tied to Vinod Adani, the elder brother of billionaire Gautam Adani...

In its first comments following the new report by Hindenburg, Sebi said allegations against the Adani Group had been duly investigated and Chairperson Buch disclosed and recused herself from time to time when dealing with matters...

The couple clarified that their investment in the fund mentioned (IPE Plus Fund 1) by Hindenburg was made in 2015 when they both were private citizens residing in Singapore, nearly two years before Madhabi joined Sebi...

Throughout the funds tenure, it made zero investment in any shares of the Adani Group either directly or indirectly through any fund, it said.. No investor had any involvement in the funds operations or investment decisions and Madhabi Buch and Dhaval Buchs holdings in the fund were less than 1.5 per cent of the total inflow, it added...

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