Sebi to auction 20 assets of Pancard; reserve price at Rs 1,700 crore

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NEW DELHI: Looking to recover over Rs 7,000 crore of investors' money, markets regulator Sebi will next month auction 20 properties of
Pancard Clubs and its late chairman and managing director at a total reserve price of over Rs 1,700 crore. This is in addition to at least
57 properties which were auctioned between December and May with combined reserve price of more than Rs 3,000 crore. In a notice issued
today, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said SBI Capital Markets will auction 17 properties of Pancard Clubs and three
properties of its late CMD Sudhir Moravekar on June 27 at a reserve price of about Rs 1,733 crore. The properties listed for the sale
include a four-star hotel, resorts, land parcels and office spaces in Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and
Kerala
The interested bidders can inspect these properties on June 12. Sebi said the bidders should make their own independent enquiries regarding
the nature, type, classifications, encumbrances, litigations, attachments, acquisition liabilities of the properties put under auction
before submitting their bids. The company had failed to comply with Sebi's direction in February 2016 ordering it to refund investors over
Rs 7,000 crore, raised through illegal collective investment schemes (CIS). Pancard Clubs had mobilised Rs 7,035 crore from 51,55,516
investors from 2002-03 to 2013-14 through its various holiday schemes.