"does not say they got restricted shares but if they were could they have been restricted for limited time"
If this is the case then they are not shares that can be retired. Only restricted shares can be retired at no cost. As stated previously, there are 417 million total restricted shares listed on otcmarket
Even if quianda wanted to just give those shares up for free and send them back to aabb, they are still public float shares, and aabb would have to purchase them in order to retire them. So my question was not in anyway answered by anyones previous post...but thank you however for taking the time to attempt to answer my question..its amazing how far a little courtesy can go these days