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  "title": "Market Manipulation: Chat group pumps enforcement actions",
  "home_page_url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/technique/chat-group-pumps/",
  "feed_url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/feeds/technique/chat-group-pumps.json",
  "description": "The 7 most recent enforcement records tagged chat group pumps in the Market Manipulation library, each linked to its primary source. Tags are our classification, not the charges.",
  "language": "en-US",
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sebi-99518-analyst-manipulation-2026/",
      "url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sebi-99518-analyst-manipulation-2026/",
      "external_url": "https://www.sebi.gov.in/enforcement/orders/feb-2026/final-order-in-the-matter-of-stock-recommendation-tips-in-the-scrip-of-unison-metals-ltd-_99518.html",
      "title": "SEBI v. Yayaati Hasmukhray Nada and others (Telegram stock tips, Unison Metals, 2026)",
      "summary": "In February 2026 SEBI confirmed, after an interim order, that a group of related traders profited from advance knowledge of buy tips posted on Telegram channels for Unison Metals shares, with operators and company insiders helping. It ordered disgorgement of about Rs 3.87 crore, penalties totalling Rs 3.65 crore and market restraints of one to three years.",
      "date_published": "2026-02-05T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "SEBI",
        "chat-group-pumps",
        "social-media-ramps"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/asic-25-315mr-chat-group-pumps-2025/",
      "url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/asic-25-315mr-chat-group-pumps-2025/",
      "external_url": "https://www.asic.gov.au/about-asic/news-centre/find-a-media-release/2025-releases/25-315mr-market-riggers-sentenced-in-asx-pump-and-dump-case",
      "title": "Market riggers sentenced in ASX ‘pump and dump’ case (ASIC, 2025)",
      "summary": "In December 2025 ASIC announced that Larissa Quinlan, Kurt Stuart, Emma Summer and Syed Yusuf had been convicted and sentenced in the Sydney District Court to intensive corrections orders of between 14 months and two years for the Telegram-organised ASX pump and dump, with fines on three of them and a pecuniary penalty order against Yusuf.",
      "date_published": "2025-12-22T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "ASIC",
        "chat-group-pumps",
        "pump-and-dump"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sebi-95706-social-media-ramps-2025/",
      "url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sebi-95706-social-media-ramps-2025/",
      "external_url": "https://www.sebi.gov.in/enforcement/orders/jul-2025/adjudication-order-in-the-matter-of-darshan-orna-limited_95706.html",
      "title": "SEBI v. Aakash Doshi and others (Telegram-promoted price manipulation, Darshan Orna, 2025)",
      "summary": "A SEBI adjudicating officer found that eleven connected people combined trades that pushed up Darshan Orna's price with stock tips on a Telegram channel, while seven of them made about Rs 2.51 crore by selling out. The order imposed penalties between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 1.2 crore, Rs 3.87 crore in total.",
      "date_published": "2025-07-30T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "SEBI",
        "chat-group-pumps",
        "price-manipulation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/asic-25-098mr-chat-group-pumps-2025/",
      "url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/asic-25-098mr-chat-group-pumps-2025/",
      "external_url": "https://www.asic.gov.au/about-asic/news-centre/find-a-media-release/2025-releases/25-098mr-asic-secures-guilty-pleas-in-telegram-pump-and-dump-action",
      "title": "ASIC secures guilty pleas in Telegram ‘pump and dump’ action (2025)",
      "summary": "In June 2025 ASIC announced that Larissa Quinlan, Kurt Stuart, Emma Summer and Syed Yusuf had pleaded guilty in the Downing Centre Local Court to conspiracy to commit market rigging and to dealing with proceeds of crime, arising from a Telegram group that promoted penny stocks to public channels in August and September 2021. Sentencing was still to come.",
      "date_published": "2025-06-10T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "ASIC",
        "chat-group-pumps",
        "pump-and-dump"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/asic-24-161mr-chat-group-pumps-2024/",
      "url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/asic-24-161mr-chat-group-pumps-2024/",
      "external_url": "https://www.asic.gov.au/about-asic/news-centre/find-a-media-release/2024-releases/24-161mr-charges-laid-in-alleged-telegram-pump-and-dump-conspiracy-following-asic-investigation",
      "title": "Charges laid in alleged Telegram ‘pump and dump’ conspiracy following ASIC investigation (ASIC, 2024)",
      "summary": "In July 2024 ASIC announced charges against Syed Yusuf, Larissa Quinlan, Emma Summer and Kurt Stuart over an alleged Telegram group that promoted penny stocks and sold into the buying. All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit market rigging and were sentenced in the Sydney District Court on December 19, 2025 to imprisonment served as intensive corrections orders of 14 months to 2 years, with fines or a pecuniary penalty order.",
      "date_published": "2024-07-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "ASIC",
        "chat-group-pumps",
        "pump-and-dump"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sebi-61466-market-abuse-2022/",
      "url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sebi-61466-market-abuse-2022/",
      "external_url": "https://www.sebi.gov.in/enforcement/orders/jul-2022/adjudication-order-in-respect-of-zodiac-solutions-in-the-matter-of-ejecta-marketing-limited_61466.html",
      "title": "SEBI v. Zodiac Solutions (bulk SMS stock tips, Ejecta Marketing, 2022)",
      "summary": "A SEBI adjudicating officer fined a Gujarat bulk-SMS business Rs 8 lakh in July 2022 for sending buy-recommendation text messages in Ejecta Marketing shares in May 2018 and for ignoring SEBI's information requests. The order was made without any reply or appearance from the noticee.",
      "date_published": "2022-07-29T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "SEBI",
        "chat-group-pumps"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sebi-56517-insider-trading-2022/",
      "url": "https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/sebi-56517-insider-trading-2022/",
      "external_url": "https://www.sebi.gov.in/enforcement/orders/feb-2022/settlement-order-in-respect-of-mr-samrat-dasgupta-in-the-matter-of-circulation-of-unpublished-price-sensitive-information-in-respect-of-hdfc-bank-limited_56517.html",
      "title": "SEBI v. Samrat Dasgupta (insider trading settlement, HDFC Bank WhatsApp leak, 2022)",
      "summary": "Samrat Dasgupta settled SEBI's allegation that, as a member of a WhatsApp trading group, he saw unpublished quarterly results of HDFC Bank circulated on 21 July 2017 and traded HDFC Bank shares before they were announced, without admitting or denying it. The February 2022 settlement order records a payment of Rs 23,90,625.",
      "date_published": "2022-02-28T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "SEBI",
        "insider-trading",
        "chat-group-pumps"
      ]
    }
  ]
}