Unless the SEC requests the FBI and/or Interpol to track down the principals of Anviron for announcing that phony dividend.
I have a working theory of what happened and have discussed it with some people in the business who at first were in total disagreement with me, then relented it was possible.
In the US, shorting of penny stocks, let alone sub-penny stocks, is not encouraged, but in some foreign countries it is not regulated.
They kept telling me it cannot be done in the US as the costs associated with doing this are abhorrent.
But elsewhere, yes.