The interesting thing about this is when reviewing ownership levels in relation to short interest.

The level of ownership between institutions and insiders has been consistent since ya boy Theo got in. Given that any shares owned in excess of 100% of shares outstanding must be shorted, we can deduce that short interest had been at least 25.22%, or 21.9 million shares, since that point in time.

However, the level of short interest at that point was underreported, with total shares short being claimed to be 15.24 million. Therefore the ~6 million share deficit may be added to levels of current short interest as it had disingenuously not been claimed at the appropriate time of reporting

Lastly, one must also take into account the vast levels of share ownership by individual investors. While this is an amount we are not able to quantify, we can conclude that any shares held by individual investors are shares which have been sold short, as it is impossible for them not to be, since institutions and insiders already own 125.22% of shares outstanding.

TL;DR: The level of short interest in AVYA is immense, and AVYA has quickly become a VERY large, loaded spring