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Motilal Oswal Financial Services was set up by Motilal Oswal and Raamdeo Agrawal as a broking house in 1987. [5] The company entered into investment banking in 2005, followed by private equity fund in 2006. [6] In February 2006, the company acquired Peninsular Capital Markets, a Cochin, Kerala based broking company for Rs. 35 crore. [7]
[25] [26] The EOW-Mumbai in its supplementary charge sheet has also accused the three brokerages IIFL, Motilal Oswal & Anand Rathi of cheating clients. [27] [28] In February 2019, SEBI declared IIFL and Motilal Oswal ‘not fit and proper’ as commodity derivative brokers based on the recommendations of SFIO & EOW's report. [29] [30] [31] [32]
However, instead of joining the family trade, Oswal decided to pursue formal education. He studied at the SPU Jain College in Falna before moving to Mumbai to study CA. In 1987, during his stay at a Mumbai hostel, the Rajasthan Vidyarthi grih Oswal met Raamdeo Agarwal, his friend with whom he later founded Motilal Oswal Financial Services. [2]
Raamdeo Agrawal is an Indian businessman, stock market investor and Chairman of Motilal Oswal Group [1] which he co-founded with Motilal Oswal in 1987. According to Forbes , he has a net worth of $1.7 billion as of April 2024.
NSE was set up at the behest of the Government of India, based on the recommendations laid out by the Pherwani committee in 1991 [21] and the blueprint was prepared by a team of five members (Ravi Narain, Raghavan Puthran, K Kumar, Chitra Sankaran and Ashishkumar Chauhan) along with R H Patil and SS Nadkarni who were deputed by IDBI in 1992.
Several key brokers including Motilal Oswal undertook Power of Attorney to buy/sell/receive/deliver NSEL commodities on behalf of the investors and also opened DMAT (dematerialized) accounts to handle warehouse receipts of commodities in electronic form.
Mehta and his brothers were arrested by the CBI on 9 November 1992 for allegedly misappropriating more than 2.8 million shares of about 90 companies through forged share transfer forms. The total value of the shares misappropriation was placed at ₹ 250 crore (equivalent to ₹ 19 billion or US$220 million in 2023). [16]
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