Vedanta has denied the allegations.Perring and Viceroy Research have earned a reputation for being taken seriously in the financial world, largely due to their role in exposing Wirecard, the German payment processor and financial services provider that was embroiled in one of the biggest financial scandals in post-war Germany. Edited Excerpts:Mint: Has Viceroy taken a short position on Vedanta Ltd or Vedanta Resources Ltd or Hindustan Zinc? Equity or Bonds?We’ve taken a short position personally here (Vedanta Resources Ltd or VRL). We opened short positions on the bonds of VRL about three to four months back. I can’t remember exactly.Mint: Can you share the size of these short positions?We never disclose the size of our short, but it’s a high-conviction short.Mint: Is it in the UK, in the US, or in Southeast Asia?It’s through prime brokers. I don’t know where the counterparty is.Mint: Do you have some investors with whom you share the reports before making them public? What is Viceroy’s business model?Not necessarily, we share the reports, but when we have a high-conviction idea that we may or may not publish, and we take a position that we’ve been short here on the bonds.Mint: How big is your team at Viceroy?Three key co-founders are generally idea-driven, and then we contract in or work with people who have a better skill set in certain areas, because it would be misleading to say that we all know everything.Mint: What made you look at Vedanta, the first Indian company you’ve researched from the 30 companies on which you’ve published reports in the last nine years?We conduct extensive on-the-ground research, examining what Vedanta has said over the last few months. So, timing-wise, the conception or thought process behind Vedanta was about nine months, give or take, from memory. It was September or October of last year. Yeah. What drew our attention was that key events were reported in local newspapers. Still, the company didn’t acknowledge this, as evidenced by court cases or by increasing the value of assets, even though they were either not operational or poorly performing. It prompted us to examine some of the assertions Vedanta had made about its projects and its commitment to them. We found that many of Vedanta’s promises were never actually fulfilled, such as its announcements about entering the semiconductor and nuclear industries. All of this never materialised. All it’s doing is refinancing debt or enabling the payment of dividends. It’s crazy.Mint: Why do you think companies do this? Is it to shore up their share price?Well, for Vedanta itself, it’s to raise cash, promote the share price and enrich the majority shareholders at the expense of the minority shareholders. 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