LOL!!! When separate companies on paper share the same executives they are, by very definition, related.
You are correct in that we don't know who the shareholders are, but by the same token an assertion that they cannot be funded by freely given cmkx shares would also be incorrect.
"’cause ev’ry stock's a winner and ev’ry stock's a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to dump them on some sheep. - chisox pat, The (Urban) Gambler