"Shore Cap and Winterflood were both buying their shares from Evolution (or so they claimed) but EBG did not have the shares to deliver to them either."
You appear at last to be acknowledging that Shore Capital and Winterflood were only dragged into this affair as a consequence
So Jacko. If you go out with some friends and they decide to rob a bank whilst you are with them, and they throw you a sack of cash which you catch and run off down the street with it, then in your eyes you are not guilty - you have just been "dragged into it".
Presumably, in this scenario, in your eyes you are as guiltless as Shore and Winterfloods.
Ho ho ho
Happy Christmas to you in your private world.
PS I had to copy and paste your posting because I cant be certain that you wont go back and edit it when you realise what a stupid comment that was.