Tuesday 19 November 2019

Jignesh Shah: Discerning Propaganda From Reality

Ace innovator Jignesh Shah, the entrepreneur who founded the iconic Fntech FTIL, had effortlessly torn apart monopolistic regimes and established a democratic market for all investors by way of his innovative exchanges and IP-driven products, is in the news again. 

After the payment default crisis at his subsidiary, the National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) payment default crisis surfaced in 2013, which he says was a conspiracy by then finance minister, P Chidambaram to favour his pet rival exchange, the NSE, Jignesh Shah is, for the first time, talking about 'what next' since all the lies spread about him and his companies are being nailed in the courts.

It is now emerging clearly that Jignesh Shah and his FTIL group was caught in a web of conspiracy with the intent of causing his downfall. As a result, the premediated NSEL crisis was blown out of proportion and it was alleged that 13,000 traders, who masqueraded as investors, had lost Rs 5,600 crore on NSEL.

Consequently,  unprecedented decisions were taken in haste, without any validated evidence against FTIL, which eventually brought down his exchange empire and destroyed FTIL and Shah’s innovations.  

But as said earlier, after a long wait, facts are coming out in public domain in the form of judicial vindications. Shah who has been besieged in several legal hurdles, is now, finally, gearing up gradually as court orders are quashing actions like the forced merger of his FTIL with NSEL. It is quite evident now that NSEL was not an investment vehicle, but a trading platform for buying and selling plantation and farm commodities and their products. The real culprits behind the crisis are defaulters, brokers and their clients, who masqueraded as investors. However, the law is yet to catch up with them. Only Shah and NSEL have been helping government machinery in the recovery efforts but only time can tell when the genuine victims of the NSEL crisis will get justice.

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