Pay heed to ‘The Target’: Jignesh Shah

Jignesh Shah, an exemplar of innovation and a flag bearer of the ‘Make in India’ campaign has created 18 unparalleled technological institutions that have put India in a solid position on the map of financial technologies.

Galt and Jignesh Shah fought against the system and both paid a heavy personal price – even suffered torture at the hands of the powerful – for prioritizing the interest of the collective mass. Neither ever strayed from their chosen paths, and strongly opposed the archaic ideas that revolved around some hackneyed beliefs that deny individual freedom. No wonder then, Galt and Shah became bywords for truly ‘free enterprise’, despite being pitted against some highly hostile environment.

As Shantanu Guha Ray, compares him to the controversial character of Ayn Rand’s book ‘Atlas Shrugged’ in his book ‘The Target’, he has become an idol in the stock trading world who has been defamed for personal gains by individuals as well as groups.

Few portals and institutions created by Jignesh Shah that have given without thought to the Indian populace are listed as follows:

ODIN:

Odin is considered to be one of the most significant trading technologies in India. It holds a million licenses across 2 lakh terminals in India. Odin is not only limited to India and is used abroad for exchanges developed under Financial Technologies.

Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX):

The Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) is the leading entity in silver and gold futures globally and 2^nd largest in copper and natural gas futures. MCX is acclaimed for its span across 30 futures contracts. It is the first listed exchange in India.

National Bulk Handling Corporation (NBHC):

Integrated warehousing services, bulk handling, collateral management, testing and certification, commodity care and pest management are some of the valuable services provided by the NHBC. It deals in more than 150 commodities across 19 states.

Jignesh Shah has given unconditionally to the Indian society, but has received curt criticism and false allegations for the NSEL case. It is time that the Indian public paid attention to the story one of the biggest entrepreneurial pioneers in India.

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Jignesh Shah’s story unveiled in ‘The Target’

Jignesh Shah knew one thing for fact that fortune favours the brave. With his bravery he built the world around him full of fortunes. He has been a visionary for 18 FinTech platforms which caused revolution in the world of financial technology. The FTIL was established in the year of 1995 where an unchartered area was available for him and he gave up multiple opportunities to work abroad. The technical innovations were used by him and his partner to create the first technology driven finance company.

Shantanu Guha Ray is the author of two major controversial books Fixed! Cash and corruption in cricket and Mahi: Story of the most successful captain of India. He has come up with his new book, The Target This book addresses the advent and fall of Jignesh Shah and the controversies associated with him. In his book, Mr. Guha Ray mentions some of his famous encounters where he was appreciated in foreign countries.

‘At the launch in November 2005, the Prime Minister of Dubai, a man of very few words, looked at Shah and remarked into the public address system, ‘You came, you promised and you delivered.’

Over the years Jignesh Shah has been showered with multiple accolades such as US-India Businessman of the year 2005-06 by senator Mrs. Hillary Clinton in Washington DC, USA. Shah was also awarded with the Indian Express Innovation Award from the then president Late Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam.

In his book, Guha also mentions about his quick rise to success.

“As per the Forbes rankings in 2008, Shah – for, it was when Shah had reached his peak – was the world’s 1,014th richest person with a net worth of $1.1 billion. In 2009, MCX overtook the London Metal Exchange (LME) to become the sixth most active commodities bourse in the world and saw more than $1 40 trillion in trades. This was not all. Shah, using the state-of-the-art technology solutions set up over a dozen other exchanges across the globe stretching from Botswana in South-Central Africa to Singapore in South-East Asia.”

The book talks about the relation between business and politics in India which completely shunted Shah.

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‘The Target’ deals with plunder of Jignesh Shah’s empire

Investigative agencies like Forwards Market Commission (FMC) are government bodies who are expected to give a fair chance to both the victim and the accused during their enquiry. Unfortunately for Jignesh Shah, the FMC played puppet in the hands of powerful politicians and bureaucrats to ruin the company most strategically.  The following excerpt from Shantanu Guha Ray’s ‘The Target’ will describe how the balance of justice shifts according to priorities.

The FMC had also stated in the same letter that there was a possibility that these defaulters may have diverted the funds, and have therefore violated the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). In fact, the defaulters were found to indulge in cheating, forgery, theft, breach of trust, bank stock hypothecation, investing the default amount in purchasing benami properties and making the recovery process extremely complicated. But the FMC took no action against them at all.

Most of these defaulters have reportedly invested the default money in prime properties or elsewhere. For instance, although the EOW of Mumbai Police had arrested a defaulter, Ramesh Nagpal, Proprietor of Shree Radhey Trading Co, Saharanpur on March 1, 2016 for his inability to pay up his dues of Rs 34 crore, he had already purchased and gifted his son Sunny Nagpal, a four- bedroom flat in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai’s prime property area. Despite this fact, no action has been taken against similar other defaulters. Neither have the defaulting companies been merged nor have their bank accounts been sealed. Their managements have not been changed either.

The FMC did not take any action at all against the defaulters, despite the fact that the EOW of the Mumbai Police had established a clear money trail to the 24 defaulters also stating that no money trail was found to NSEL, FTIL or its non-executive directors.

The perfect aim at ‘The Target’, Jignesh Shah.

With Jignesh Shah on the aim of top politicians and bureaucrats because of his quick rise to the heights people seldom dream of, the beartrap made for him was inescapable. But what they didn’t notice was that they had left a trail of footprints to follow. Shantanu Guha Ray, a former tehelka journalist, stuck to his roots of investigative journalism and deduced the ultimate truth out of it.  Ripe with myriad anonymous conversations, Shantanu has managed to create the suspense yet veil the curtains off the facts.

Here is an example of such interesting excerpt from the book:

This one was narrated to me by a bureaucrat friend in Delhi, the person spoke on condition of total anonymity. Soon after the NSEL mess happened, a few civil servants – two from the MoF and one from the DCA – sat down together to ruminate and ponder over the problem. They even got an analyst who was an expert in markets, to specifically explain the minute details of the NSEL payment crisis.

So what did the brokers do in the NSEL crisis, asked one bureaucrat?

The expert crisply summed it up as the handiwork of dubious brokers. They did a lot of things that were fundamentally illegal. They created a structured product involving a contract for simultaneous buying and selling of commodities on the NSEL platform, thereby ignoring NSEL’s dictum to inform the clients of the risks involved in such simultaneous buying and selling of commodities. Worse, there was aggressive marketing and mis- selling apparently promising assured returns in violation of NSEL’s circulars. There were various instances of funding clients that should not have been done. Yet, for such dubious deals, to avoid income-tax, business income was illegally offset with questionable losses and expenses incurred on dubious deals.

A lot of tools were used to fire the guns, bureaucratic power, political clout, police and even internal commotion, but throughout the whole scenario the target remained unchanged, Jignesh Shah.

Jignesh Shah: The other side of the Target

A common bollywood story has a hero and a villain. A drama has long been playing in the backdrop of politics and stock exchange market. This drama too had a protagonist and an antagonist, but the viewers are still confused about who is who. The curtain unveiled a few days back with a well investigated script ‘The Target’.

The story of Jignesh Shah has been on a road full of ups and downs. It seems he was too focussed on reaching the horizon, but again, the road of business never comes with the  sign ‘Bumps Ahead’. Shah was awarded US-India businessman of the year in 2006, little did he know that in the coming years life was about to take a U turn. In ‘The Target’ Shantanu Guha Ray mentions:

In less than a decade, DGCX had positioned itself as a global financial hub, adjudged ‘Exchange of the Year 2013’, trading in bullion, currency and metals in Dubai (historically an important centre for trading in gold and other commodities).

This was a historical milestone for India, but in Delhi no reactions were forthcoming from the government, even the bureaucrats did not talk about the ground-breaking move. On the contrary, the government sent out feelers through the Mumbai-based Reserve Bank of India (RBI), wanting to know what was happening in Dubai, and whether or not Shah and his men were flouting the rules.

On one side where Jignesh Shah and his company were trying to restore the glory of Indian economy, everything else back home  was going wrong. Ray further clarifies this:

That was strange, if not absurd. A country that awards instant stardom to an Indian, who becomes the CEO of a global company, had no words of appreciation for an innovator and entrepreneur, who had achieved global recognition for excellence in building world-class financial institutions and services through lucid, well-regulated and well-audited processes.

However ‘cinematic’ the story may seem, all the events and characters in it are real. A lot of it has remained untold for years, but new facts have been brought in light which help us know more about the other side of the coin.

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Jignesh Shah Pegged Back, Framed?

Jignesh Shah’s life is no less than a Bollywood script. His rise as ‘The Exchange Man of India’ empowered millions to lead a proud life. He proved his mettle by creating beacons of growth for the Indian economy such as MCX. The way NSEL case has panned out shows forces going out of the way to frame him on flimsy grounds.

From the time he started to show his growth and formed a grip over the exchange market, efforts were made to pull him down and hamper his growth. All his efforts were seemingly going in vain due to multiple incidents, canards and rumours that targeted him.

i.    There was immense pressure on Shah to sell his share to a certain bank, keeping in mind the loans that had been taken. On the contrary, repayment was done in time.

ii.    MCX had to undergo an income tax raid. Even after not finding anything against Shah or MCX, this raid was used as an alibi to disallow him to set up other exchanges.

iii.    FTIL was blacklisted on the basis of a complaint that dates back to almost 10 years and was sorted out too.

iv.    Traders working with FTIL had to undergo a hard time. Approvals for trading to those brokers who preferred Jignesh Shah’s exchange products had to face the brunt of delay, indirect threats and fear of penalties.

v.    There were umpteen efforts to stall MCX public issue by pushing detractors to file frivolous complaints.

vi.    Shah was refused for MCX SX license for equity market segment which was won only through Supreme Court’s intervention.

vii.    MCX proposed several times for a unified regulatory agency for spot, futures and warehousing segments in Indian commodity market system which was never taken in consideration. However, when NSEL case created a spur, it was made to look like MCX was avoiding regulations!

A man who went on to take India’s exchange platform to a different level, regarded as one of India’s greatest visionary, credited with projects that offered employment to millions caught in a web of inexplicable investigative moves springs up multiple questions–is there a plot to this, is it a conspiracy which if decoded may stun the nation as those behind it are bared?