The "real culprit" here seems to be OTCMarkets who moved the companies to Pink without compliance with 15c2-11.
I suggest that anyone who purchased shares based on that action file a formal complaint with both the SEC and FINRA, which may spur those actual regulators to investigate OTCMarkets and how this occurred.
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