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Chat group pumps enforcement actions

This library records 7 enforcement actions tagged chat group pumps. A chat group pump is a coordinated buying campaign organised inside a messaging group, where organisers accumulate before announcing a target and sell into the buying their announcement produces.

Actions are listed newest first. Each row links to a case page carrying the regulator's own release and, where one was published, the complaint. For how this technique works and what statute it engages, read the chat group pumps technique page.

Actions
7
Total penalties
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Median penalty
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Largest
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Criminal parallel
43%
Action Agency Filed Penalty Status
SEBI v. Yayaati Hasmukhray Nada and others (Telegram stock tips, Unison Metals, 2026) SEBI (India) 2026-02-05 — judgment
Market riggers sentenced in ASX ‘pump and dump’ case (ASIC, 2025) ASIC 2025-12-22 — judgment
SEBI v. Aakash Doshi and others (Telegram-promoted price manipulation, Darshan Orna, 2025) SEBI (India) 2025-07-30 — judgment
ASIC secures guilty pleas in Telegram ‘pump and dump’ action (2025) ASIC 2025-06-10 — judgment
Charges laid in alleged Telegram ‘pump and dump’ conspiracy following ASIC investigation (ASIC, 2024) ASIC 2024-07-23 — judgment
SEBI v. Zodiac Solutions (bulk SMS stock tips, Ejecta Marketing, 2022) SEBI (India) 2022-07-29 — judgment
SEBI v. Samrat Dasgupta (insider trading settlement, HDFC Bank WhatsApp leak, 2022) SEBI (India) 2022-02-28 — settled