I think it's a simpler explanation to assume that they would have robbed it by taking their huge stashes of luna and exploiting their 'buying'... it would hold

I think it's a simpler explanation to assume that they would have robbed it by taking their huge stashes of luna and exploiting their 'buying'... it would hold up much better under scrutiny and they could still manage to transfer a significant fraction of the value into their pockets.