It would depend on who owns the shares, my guess it is employees/ceo/directors of the company. see link for a bit of reading on the escrowed shares https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/escrowedshares.aspIf it was investors that own the shares I would have expected the short positions to have increased in the last few weeks, in fact it has decreased by .17% - according to short-man website.