Gengulphus wrote: as though they had admitted to trying to report lower debt positions at reporting dates in the past.
They did however own up to an "accounting error" in their balance sheet statement of debt earlier this year.
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As observed at the time, the "error" was of a size about the same as the cost of the dividend.