Translation - you can’t get out until the protected folks do. They can’t keep their story straight as to whether pending orders were cancelled or not.
Could be!
Yeah if ya think about it a good way to do it.
Announce that trading is halted. then spread massiver amounts of FUD.
Then watch the orders stack up and before trading goes back online you make sure YOUR orders go in the que so as to maximize your profits or minimize your loses etc.