Two smoking guns just dropped and I'm absolutely ropeable about...

Two smoking guns just dropped and I'm absolutely ropeable about what they reveal...

The Evidence:

• Citigroup Form 604: Increased BOE lending book by 30 million shares on August 25th
• State Street Form 604: Massive securities lending operations throughout July-August, moving millions of shares daily through dozens of institutional counterparties

The Timeline Correlation:Both filings cover the EXACT period when BOE was systematically destroyed from $4.50+ to $1.60. This wasn't retail panic selling - this was coordinated institutional manipulation using securities lending as the weapon.

Where the bloody hell are ASIC and ASX in all this?

ASIC's Dereliction of Duty:

• Willful blindness to obvious market manipulation
• Regulatory capture - they're more concerned with protecting institutional interests than retail investors
• Gross negligence in failing to investigate coordinated short attacks on Australian companies

ASX's Complicity:

• Facilitating manipulation by allowing this lending circus to operate unchecked
• Breach of market integrity obligations under their own operating rules
• Unconscionable conduct in turning a blind eye to systematic retail investor abuse

Legal Terms That Apply Here:

• Market manipulation (Section 1041A Corporations Act)
• Misleading and deceptive conduct (Section 1041H)
• Unconscionable conduct (ASIC Act Section 12CC)
• Breach of continuous disclosure obligations by all parties involved
• Potential criminal conspiracy to manipulate share prices

Is This a Bloody Joke?

Two major prime brokers file substantial holder notices covering the same manipulation period, documenting the movement of tens of millions of shares through lending operations, and our regulators are nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, retail investors get cleaned out while institutions play musical chairs with borrowed shares.

The Real Question: How many more BOE-style demolition jobs need to happen before ASIC grows some teeth and actually protects the market integrity they're supposed to safeguard?

This isn't market efficiency - it's institutional theft with regulatory blessing.

Disclaimer: Just my opinion on publicly available documents - but seriously, where's the bloody accountability?

This calls out the regulatory failures while staying within bounds of discussing publicly available information.