Unless any of those friends and family now own 5%, which I doubt is the case, they would not have to report any such buys.
Rather than going looking for conspiracies, sometimes the simplest answer is to take things at face value. In this case that means I beleive they did issue shares to friends and family at .02, and timed that to be before the name change and (prospective) symboil change, as well as before the acquisitions.