He answered it in a way that leaves it open for interpretation. A lot of times a company will work through a 3rd party to give shares to promoters and not do it directly.
He never said "I was not given shares by anyone at BDPT or a 3rd party affiliate of BDPT to promote BDPT stock".
As I said, it is impossible to have 43 M shares in an account without a cost basis unless you never bought the shares to begin with. A cost basis is the average cost per share that you bought those 43 M shares at. For example if I bought 1000 shares of xxx stock for $1000 total? My cost basis is exactly $1.
To not have a cost basis? Means the shares were given to you. Deposited into your account with no open market buying.
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