Publically traded entities, there are a lot of rules about not being fake. so the sec stepped in and more or less kicked them off the stock exchange. for a couple of them, they issued what is called a stop order, and they forcibly stopped them from selling any more public shares. and stop orders are a serious thing and a rare thing. and in the past 30 years, 35 companies total have gotten stop orders. of the 35, at least 3 them were run by the same group of guys in china, in shanghai, and now, this chinese firm in shanghai that appears to specialize in launching publically traded companies tha...