SEC Files Charges Against Former Broker-Dealer Owner Over Fraudulent Stock Sales

The Securities and Exchange Commission is charging Vinay Kumar Nevatia with making fraudulent stock sales. According to the regulator, Kumar sold about $900,000 of stock in CSS Corp. Technologies Limited. The stock in the privately held data technology company supposedly belonged to him even though these were shares that he had already bought for other people a few years back.

The SEC claims Kumar conducted the sales via secret wire transfers, got the stock transfer agent to record the bogus transactions, and stole investors’ money to use as his own. He also purportedly gave the earlier share owners bogus updates about their investments even after he sold their stock off to others so that they would think that the shares still belonged to them.

Kumar is not registered with the Commission and he does not have a license to trade securities. He also is accused of using numerous aliases while residing in Palo Alto, Ca. The SEC is charging him with violating the antifraud provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. It wants Kumar to pay a financial penalty and give back ill-gotten gains. The regulator is also looking to get permanent injunctions.

Kumar used to own KBR Capital Markets, a now defunct brokerage firm that dealt in wholesale illiquid alternative investments. From ’07-’13, Kumar solicited securities and real estate investments via the different entities he controlled and owned.

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Read the SEC Complaint (PDF)

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