Bangkok, 13 November 2017 ? In response to the Ministry of Finance's request, the SEC is conducting another public hearing on the draft amendment to the Securities and Exchange Act B.E. 2535 (1992) concerning the establishment of the Capital Market Development Fund (CMDF). This second consultation focuses on revising the CMDF's objectives to include necessary financial support for the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). The first hearing conducted earlier in the month of June attracted various,...
Bangkok, February 1, 2013 ? According to the news coverage, the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) on January 2, 2013 announced that the Special Investigation Working Team resolved to press charges against officials of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and the two companies - Krungthep Thanakom Co., Ltd. (KT), Bangkok Mass Transit System PLC (BTSC) ? including their executives for involvement in the skytrain contract that they have allegedly operate railway systems or obtainin...
. 171/2018 headlined “SEC imposes civil sanction against 40 offenders in AJD price manipulation case” issued on 27 December 2018SEC News No. 31/2019 headlined: “SEC requests the public prosecutor to bring
Bangkok, April 9, 2014 ? At the Economic Crime Division of the Royal Thai Police (ECD Police) today, the SEC filed a criminal complaint against unlicensed derivatives and securities business operators and related persons as follows: (1) Seandar Inc. (or Seandar, Seandar Limited, Seandar Inc. Limited, Seandar (Asia) Ltd., Seandar Europe, Seandarfx) and Matthew Christensen for operating unlicensed derivatives business; and (2) S D Global, Seandar Inc. (or Seandar), Huang Young Lin, Tang Tia Julien...
Earlier, the Civil Sanction Committee (CSC) resolved to impose civil sanctions on six offenders* in the case of manipulating the BM share price, requiring them to make the total payment of 8,001,949 baht (consisting of civil monetary penalties, compensations for the benefits received or would have been received, and the reimbursements of investigative expenses incurred by the SEC) and prohibiting them from trading securities or derivatives for a period of six months or 11 months each (as the cas...
Earlier, the Civil Sanction Committee resolved to impose civil sanctions on Mr. Thanawat, who was IFEC director and executive at the time of the offence. He was ordered to pay a civil fine and return any gains from the wrongdoings.* Mr. Thanawat came in to acknowledge the civil sanctions, but did not consent to comply with the punishment terms within the specified time. The SEC has therefore requested the public prosecutor in writing to file a lawsuit against Mr. Thanawat in the Civil C...
Bangkok, September 9, 2014 - The SEC today filed a criminal complaint with the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) against {A} and {B}, former executives of United Securities Plc., {C} {D} {E} and an unknown person, for manipulating share price of Union Petrochemical Plc. (UKEM).With the referral from the Stock Exchange of Thailand on irregular trading in UKEM shares by a group of persons during July 21st August 20, 2008, the SEC probed into the case and found that {A} {B} {C} five other a...
Bangkok, 6 September 2016 ? The SEC has filed complaints against Marnfah Group Co., Ltd. and Lederer (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and their respective authorized directors with the Economic Crime Suppression Division of the Royal Thai Police on account of offering securities for sale to the public without approval.According to the received information and the SEC?s further inspection on public solicitation for high yield investment via social media, it was found that Marnfah Group and its authorized dir...
Bangkok, 14 September 2016 ? The SEC has filed a criminal complaint with the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) against (1) Mr. Siwasit Sainumphung (2) Ms. Noppawan Suwan, and (3) Mr. Viroj Arnokkaeo for manipulating the share price of Yong Thai Public Company Limited (YCI).Following the referral from the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), the SEC?s further investigation revealed that Siwasit had agreed to or colluded with five other persons to use several trading accounts to trade YCI sha...
Bangkok, August 27, 2010 ? The SEC today filed a criminal complaint with the Department of Special Investigation against two former executives of International Engineering Plc. (IEC) for misappropriating the company?s assets in contravention of Section 307, 308, 311, 313 and 315 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1992 (SEA). A referral from the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and the SEC?s subsequent probe showed reasonable evidence that in 2009 Bee Taechaubol, then IEC director respo...