ED arrests MD of OPG Securities Gupta in NSE scam

The CBI on Wednesday said it has arrested Delhi-based broker and Managing Director of OPG Securities Sanjay Gupta in the NSE scam, four years after the agency registered an FIR against him for alleged preferential access of the market through multiple IDs and secondary servers called co-location facility.

The CBI has alleged that it received information that Gupta along with some people attempted to destroy some evidence and also tried to influence SEBI officials which were probing the NSE co-location scam case.

The agency had summoned Gupta to its headquarters and during the questioning, Gupta was “evasive” and tried to “mislead the investigation” resulting in his arrest on Tuesday night, they said.