Given their comment regarding the SEC, my guess would be that they sought out council from the SEC and the SEC informed them of Pino's involvement with PYCT and they thought it might be worth a shot.
In his answer Pillay made it clear that Pino (and no one else) had a majority ownership in the company therefore making their attempts at collecting very unlikely IMO.
What's funny is that they ended up forcing Pillay's hand at divulging the ownership issue which of course should be of great interest to shareholders.