Tron Founder Justin Sun Sued by U.S. SEC on Securities, Market Manipulation Charges
Sun, who was named Grenada’s ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO) last year, tried to artificially inflate TRX’s trading volume through the wash trading scheme, the SEC alleged, by having his own employees “engage in more than 600,000 wash trades of TRX between two crypto asset trading platform accounts he controlled.”
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