Thanks for the persistent interest in my case, JollyGood. If it wasn't the amount in question this would be solved many years ago. But their greediness is digging their hole.

A second motive that is delaying their second round of scam is the crypto crash. A crowdfunding on this context would be much harder to be successful.

I wonder how much their customers lost dumping their orders on their fake orderbooks. Since they don't seem to hold crypto (or they wouldn't need to scam to pay for their retirement) they probably didn't lost much and might have earn from their customers dumps. But it's impossible to know. But soon they will need to pay dividends on fake profits. They will have to use money from the crowdfunding to pay them, they don't have profits for that. A few more inches on their hole.