Who could have done it? Anyone with the motive and the means. This wasn't an expensive play. Any group with $40 million could have done it.
As to literally who? It doesn't matter, for the most part. See, when I saw the actions playing out as I did, I don't have to know who is doing it - I just have to see that it is being done. It lets me know which way to play my hand. Almost all of my money has been made by watching how groups of people act and then deciding if it is more beneficial to act with or in opposition to them. That being said, the majority of my decisions when investing is investing in a person. Everyone has ideas, but it takes the right person to make them come to fruition. I also look at the great motivators - fear and greed. When I combined who I see Nasrat as ( an intensely shrewd leader who takes great lengths to not put himself in harm's way) with the number of shares he has at stake, I decided it was in his best interest, due to greed, to make his 300 million shares worth as much as possible. After that assessment, I get to walk behind him as he wakes up every morning attempting to plow through brick walls for his investment, all the while, my investment grows with his.
I do acknowledge, there is a slight possibility that he could have been playing both sides and setting up a family member or friend in another country to accumulate shares through multiple entities to avoid detection while they dropped the price and reaped the benefits afterwards. I'd be a fool not to consider the possibility, and my worry of that increased as we cycled through CFO's ( were they seeing something I wasn't), had conflicting stances on Mikah being open or closed etc. Those concerns were assuaged after Carter came back, as he would be a fool to say he saw something and then step back in to the viper's den. The Mikah concerns were short lived as, I saw the move as the only possible out that benefited ELTP. Yes, the adderall split greatly benefited him personally as well, but that move made 100% sense to me as a business owner. If I make a move in a partnership for the benefit of a shared LLC, I expect to be compensated commensurately using the replacement principle.
One last note on the "who". There is one person, and/or group, that I specifically know helped perpetuate a campaign to hurt this stock for the financial gain of another, and, technically, by default themselves as well. They were paid handsomely for it, and, while this person's identity might not shock anyone (they were kind of obvious in their arrogance), the group that paid for the work would probably shock this group as to how deep this thing went. What I do not know, as of right now, is if those actions were in coordination with the (clearly foreign) actors at play here.
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