Here's an example of the shuffling you refer to ImjinBridger.
In January Solomon Ali and his cronies received 42m shares for an outlay of less than $35k.
It would cost REVO $180k to buy-back and retire those shares, at the current pps.
Such a buy-back would guarantee those shareholders a £145k profit, IF REVO could get the money to fund it.
The recently released 10-Q says,
Offering to Raise Capital Funding Management of the Company has elected to do a secondary public or private offering to raise additional funding for the Company, for working capital, for its growth and expansion and retirement of equity.
So some of the cash generated from any private offering will be used to buy-back shares.
Remember, also, that Ali has already said he only wants to buy-back (retire) shares from those with substantial holdings (i.e his cronies).
Put this all together and, hey presto! REVO, magically, has the cash to buy-back shares from those selected shareholders holding millions of its shares.
It's worth noting that a Ponzi scheme is described as taking money from new investors to pay returns promised to earlier investors. Not magic, at all, really.