all or almost all brokers naked short for profit in some measure or another bascally constantly. if you want to buy shares of company ABC - they will take your money, keep everything 'electronic' and 99 times out of 100 they will never hear from you again and never have to provide any real proof that they actually brokered/sold you a real bonafide set of shares from that company. they take your money, give you an electronic 'entry' and that be that. it's HOW THE STocK maRKET HAS WORKED IN THE USA FOR years.
most of these brokers do operate outside the law in these areas every business day. MOST OF THE TIME THEY DONT HAVE WHAT THEY SOLD YOU AND USUALLY IT NEVER EVER EVER COMES TO A REAL FIGHT.
They sold to you despite the lock so did so without DTCC involvement.
AS they did not have DTCC involvement they did not have access to the share certificates the DTCC hold to cover the trades so are obliged to hold actual physical certificates of their own to cover the trade. If they don't have those they have sold what they don't own.
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