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Zetrix Bhd: Is the Crash Over?

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Zetrix AI is the company Malaysians still call MYEG. From RM0.75 in early August it fell to RM0.17within a month. Its founder’s Bursa filings show 200 million shares sold, starting ten days before the crash. Here is what the filings and the tape say.

−77%
August high to the 1 Sep low
RM0.75 to RM0.17
RM3.46b
market value lost in 4 days
RM1.77b left
200.5m
founder shares sold, 11 to 28 Aug
RM88.8m, five filings

How bad is the crash?

ZETRIX 0138 · KLSE · daily · RM0.220 ▼ Aug high 0.750 → 1 Sep low 0.170 = −77.3%O 0.260 H 0.260 L 0.210 C 0.2202 Sep 2026 · Vol 825.1m0.3000.4000.5000.6000.7000.8000.900Aug high 0.750 · 4 Aug1 Sep low 0.170 · 52-week low11 & 17 Aug: 44m founder shares crossed under a financing arrangement @ 0.710 ▼18 Aug −11% gap28 Aug limit down0.595 → 0.295, exactly −30 sen0.220Volume, shares500m1.0b1.5b1.73b1.05b3 Jun16 Jun1 Jul15 Jul3 Aug17 Aug27 Aug2 SepYahoo Finance · cross-checked vs KLSE Screener, The Edge, FMT
Daily candles, three months, in RM. Amber markers: the two financing crossings. Blue line: the August high. Red line: the 1 September low.
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  • 28 August was a limit down. RM0.595 to RM0.295, exactly 30 sen, the most Bursa allows in a day. RM2.4b gone by lunch.
  • The company's reply changed nothing. It told Bursa it is “not implicated in any way” in the Saravanan case. The stock still opened at RM0.18 on 1 Sep.
  • The volume was extreme. 1.05 billion shares on 28 Aug, 1.73 billion on 1 Sep. Normal is about 41 million a day.

Who was selling?

The founder’s filings, oldest first. Each block sold lower than the last.11 Aug · crossed under a financing arrangementRM0.7108.0m sh · via AIH17 Aug · crossed under a financing arrangementRM0.71036.0m sh · 16m direct + 20m via AIH27 Aug · disposalRM0.6064.29m sh · via AIH28 Aug · disposalRM0.48052.35m sh · via AIH28 Aug · disposalRM0.29999.82m sh · direct · RM29.8mTotal, 11–28 AugRM88.8m200.5m sh · stake ≈30.0% → 27.5%AIH = Asia Internet Holdings Sdn Bhd, Wong’s private vehicle. Bursa filings via KLSE Screener #11646219, #11649211,#11659657 (all linked in Sources). Stake after: 13.92% direct + 13.58% indirect (The Edge, 3 Sep).Wong told analysts he “needed time to resolve the forced sale” (The Edge).
Every founder sale on the Bursa filings, oldest first. Each block went at a lower price than the one before.
  • The first sign came ten days early. On 11 and 17 Aug, 44m shareswere crossed “pursuant to a financing arrangement” at RM0.71. The stock gapped down 11% the next day.
  • The margin call is on the record. TS Wong told analysts he needed time to resolve the forced sale, The Edge reported.
  • He still holds 27.5%. More forced selling remains possible. MBSB had flagged higher gearing two days before the crash.
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Forced selling has a signature: huge volume, falling block prices, and filings that arrive after the damage. · Photo: Unsplash

What is in the order book?

  • There is no order book number. The base business is the e-government concession held since 2000: renewals, immigration, foreign worker processing.
  • The growth is blockchain. 2Q profit rose 35% to RM269.3m, helped by sales of Zetrix nodes and tokens.
  • The pipeline is mostly early stage. On 2 Sep it agreed to buy the other half of MYEG Ventures in the Philippines, paid partly in new shares. Deals like this are not cash.

Was MYEG really Bursa’s darling?

Same company, two crashes. Peak to trough, one scale.73%May–Jun 2018RM1.21 (8 May) → RM0.323 (4 Jun)GE14: its e-gov concessions looked at risk77%Aug–Sep 2026RM0.750 (4 Aug) → RM0.170 (1 Sep)financing crossings, gearing flag, margin calls2018 per The Edge’s GE14 coverage (RM5b+ of market cap lost in a week); 2026 per Yahoo Finance and KLSE Screener.
The Edge called it 'a darling among investors' in 2018, just before the first crash.
  • 2018 was the first crash. After GE14, RM5b of market value vanished in a week. The stock fell from RM1.21 to 32.3 sen.
  • It recovered then. That is history, not a forecast. The concessions survived. Whether token-driven profits earn the same trust is the open question.

Is the crash over?

Nobody can honestly say. These are the things worth watching.

  • Any dayNew filings. Wong holds 27.5%. Each new disposal means the margin position is not settled.
  • This monthA statement that the margin loan is settled. That is the clearest sign forced selling has ended.
  • Next Lion dealThe price of the new shares issued for MYEG Ventures. New shares at crash prices dilute existing holders.
  • NovemberThe next results. How much profit is token sales, and how much is concession cash.
Not financial advice. This article does not call a bottom. Stocks in margin call spirals can fall further than fundamentals suggest. Every price here was checked against two of Yahoo Finance, KLSE Screener, The Edge and FMT. Every share sale comes from the Bursa filing, linked below. Rates.my holds no CMSA licence. This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold.

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Sources

Bursa filings (via KLSE Screener)

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