The obvious answer is that the debt level doesn't go down if the lender doesn't sell the shares. I did some more calculations for Loan1+2 and this is the result. Not sure if these numbers are correct. [pre] Price Coll shares 2.31 2.23M as of June, 30 1.37 3.76M recent low 1.00 5.15M potentially[/pre] Which doesn't instill confidence. But we have to keep in mind that there are only 3 possibilities A) The collateral shares are being sold. Then as I said, there should be hardly any debt left. And we should be clear. B) They are lending out the shares Then we have quite a battle on our hands. The shorts are playing with fire. As is management! c) Neither. Then we still have the shorts. A lot of manipulation etc. And the same applies as B) None of these 3 options makes sense to me. I simply can't figure this out.