MUMBAI: The government and the regulators continue to tighten their oversight on investments coming from China. Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) sent its fourth letter to custodians on Sunday to plug loopholes that investors from the neighbouring country could have used to invest, directly or indirecty, in companies here without much scrutiny.
Mint has reviewed the communication sent by the capital markets regulator. In the email, Sebi has sought details of investments from China, Hong Kong and 11 other Asian countries in terms of whether the fund is controlled by a Chinese investor, or the fund manager is operating out of any of these 13 jurisdictions and finally whether the investors from these countries have controlling