After finding Brightcom Group Ltd (BGL), its promoter, chairman and managing director (CMD) M Suresh Kumar Reddy and chief financial officer (CFO) Narayan Raju were involved in round-tripping of BGL's own funds in a circular fashion to falsely portray receipt of consideration from allottees of preferential allotments and siphoning off of proceeds of preferential allotments, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) barred top executives of the company as well as investor Shankar Sharma from offloading or disposing of their shareholding in the company.