New Delhi: In a severe indictment, commodity market regulator FMC has said Jignesh Shah and his firm FTIL are not ‘fit and proper' to run any exchange in the country and charged him of being the “highest beneficiary” in the NSEL scam.
Shah founded Multi-Commodity Exchange or MCX in November 2003 and then went on to set up a stock exchange this year. He is currently the Chairman of Financial Technologies India Ltd (FTIL) which owns and runs National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) where a Rs 5,500 crore payment crisis is being probed by multiple agencies.
In an 80-page order, the Forward Markets Commission (FMC), which went into the running of NSEL following payment defaults, held that FTIL is not a ‘fit and proper person' to hold anything more than 2 per cent shareholding in the MCX. FTIL currently has 26 per cent stake in MCX, the country's largest commodity exchange and will need to cut its stake following the FMC order.
Shah on October 9 quit as Vice-Chairman and Shareholder Director of MCX-SX, the third major stock exchange in the country. Few weeks later, he also resigned as Vice Chairman of MCX.
