After many tight regulations he took to curb investors and brokers from so called manipulations since his appointment in 2010; Sri Lanka’s buckle tight regulator Malik Cader had been asked to leave from his position of Director General (DG) at the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka; CSE Leaks learns.
'Accordingly by a special Cabinet paper decision he had been asked to leave his office', reports reveal. “He had asked for more time till 31 December 2011 but he will be removed early as 31 October 2011” a source close to SEC told CSE Leaks.
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| SEC Director Malik Cader at Aquaventure Dubai Water Park at Atlantis Hotel at Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Search for Malik Cader in facebook and investigate his investing friends in CSE go to link: http://www.facebook.com/malik.cader?sk=friends |
Since the time when Cader took the DG seat he had been implementing so many rules in terms of regulation to CSE in what called to be the ‘Moves that are taken to develop a disciplined capital market in the country’. However it is now learnt from various stock market sources that although Malik Cader was acting as a highly disciplined regulator he had a circle of friends who had pushed up illiquid shares that has no value in the CSE; and those friends never got caught to Cader’s Rules.
“There’s an to head of a stock brokering firm who is called to be the Cashier of Malik” many other sources from Colombo Stock Exchange told CSE Leaks adding that industry officials are aware that particular top official charged money from ‘SEC caught investors and brokers’ telling them that he can sort the matter with Director General of SEC at several occassions.
At a time when Sri Lanka’s tourism is booming, in another development Sri Lankan stock market investors had been surprised by a new Hotel Development project coming up in tourism booming Pasikudah beach valued at an investment of nearly Rs.220 million or US $ 2 million that is yet to be constructed which is called to be a project jointly owned by a regulatory official at SEC and a head of a stock broking company with couple of Investors. “It is said this Leisure project coming up at Pasikudah is constructed by a capital market watchdog official’s father in law who runs a construction firm and who is a top architect in the island nation"Sources added. Now it is also learn from sources the Hotel is nearing completion.
Since Sri Lanka’s capital market watchdog got a new official, Malik Cader as the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission with effect from 2 November 2010, Sri Lanka’s Browns fame led subsidiaries and associates including Hydro Power Free Lanka (HPFL), Free Lanka Capital Holdings (FLCH), Browns Investments (BIL) had already been listed whilst Agstar Fertilizers, Sierra Constructions is yet to be listed in Colombo Bourse after an IPO or through ‘Introduction’ after a Private Placement. It is also learnt that several Browns fame investors made ‘Big Deals’ at a time when Malik Cader head the seat as DG in the capital market watchdog’s house in the island.
On the contrary ever since Securities and Exchange Commission Director General Malik Cader was appointed to DG seat Colombo Stock Market performance had been gradually dipping whilst retail investors had left market time to time since early January 2011.
Surprisingly when a published article in Sri Lanka’s Pink Paper; Daily FT on 21 October 2011 questioned whether SEC DG ‘Malik Cader Out or In?’ the market indices shot up whilst stock prices soar with investors flocking up to CSE about the Good News that outlined the future of Malik Cader in Sri Lanka at the capital market watchdog’s house.
Joined as a Press Officer to SEC in mid 1980’s Malik Cader was the Director-Legal and Enforcement prior to being DG at the capital market watchdog’s house in Sri Lanka.
