India's markets regulator says a listed textile company with almost no textile sales somehow climbed 842 percent in a year. The looms were empty. The order book was in the trading terminal.
A ₹143.79 crore ($17M USD) stock manipulation ring in India ran on text messages that looked like they came from Zerodha and ICICI. SEBI's 394-page final order names Hanif Shekh at the center and penalizes 225 others around him.
A former Daishin Securities department head, an influencer's husband, and a man who reportedly compared himself to the lead of a Korean heist film were indicted this week in Seoul. The prosecution says the scheme used cash in a bag, burner phones, and dozens of borrowed-name accounts to move a single KOSDAQ stock.
On April 22 and 23, 2026, India's market regulator walked into the offices and homes of promoter-directors at two small company stocks and started opening drawers. The companies looked like success stories. The filings told a different story about who the success was for.