Economic Offences Wing

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Connected personA person whose association with a company in the six months before the act put them, or could reasonably be expected to put them, in a position to access unpublished price sensitive information.
• FATFThe intergovernmental body founded in 1989 that writes the global AML/CFT standards — the 40 Recommendations plus IX Special Recommendations — and grey-lists or black-lists countries that fail them.
• FIU-INDIndia's central national agency for receiving, processing, analysing and disseminating information on suspect financial transactions, set up in November 2004 and reporting to the Economic Intelligence Council.
• IFSCAThe unified regulator of India's International Financial Services Centre, established in April 2020, holding inside the IFSC the powers that RBI, SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDAI hold outside it.
• Securities Appellate TribunalThe statutory tribunal established under the SEBI Act that hears appeals from orders of SEBI and of its adjudicating officers, which must be filed within 45 days of receipt of the order.
• Securities Transaction TaxA central government tax collected by the exchange on the sell side of every futures and option trade — 0.05% of futures traded value, 0.15% of option premium, and 0.15% of settlement price on exercise.