I have one real problem with this short figure that I have mentioned in the past. As these are for the American AUREF I know that as a retail stock owner in the USA you are not allowed to short a FOREIGN Stock in the USA by almost all brokerage firms unless the Stocks are listed on one of the exchanges like the NYSE, AMEX or Nasdaq ( not pink sheets) and NAKED short selling is supposedly illegal in the USA also.

These shares were shorted long before Kinross bought the 15 million shares in the private placement in late July.

The question of who did it is therefore a tough one.....finding out who did it is even tougher.