Recently, Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, and Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance, were both sued by the United States. Is the cryptocurrency world about to face another big explosion?
However, compared to Zhao Changpeng, we may be more familiar with Sun Yuchen. Because even if you are not in the cryptocurrency circle, you know that he spent about 31 million yuan to bid for lunch with Buffett in 2019, but broke the appointment, which made the old man very angry.
In addition, in 2021, he created a wealth myth in the cryptocurrency circle by making 300 million US dollars in one night. This young man born in the 1990s is even more charming.
This time, the United States accused Sun Yuchen and his company of planning a TRX sales scam that artificially inflated the trading volume and arbitraged more than 30 million US dollars. And there is evidence that Sun Yuchen hired a group of celebrities with a large fan base on the Internet platform to help him sell privately without registering the encrypted asset securities TRX (virtual currency similar to Bitcoin) on the US securities trading platform, deceiving the public to conduct false transactions up to 600,000 times.
It seems that if the situation is true, Xiao Sun will be convicted of two serious crimes: manipulating the market and defrauding investors.
But just when the United States was cursing and trying to arrest him, Xiao Sun disappeared.
Because Xiao Sun is very experienced in dealing with such incidents. Before he was targeted by the CSRC, he had offended the US Internal Revenue Service and the FBI, and the crimes he was suspected of were all related to fraud, which he could not count on his ten fingers.
Of course, as a "habitual offender", his escape technique is also very sophisticated. With his citizenship of multiple countries and full buffs, he is not so easy to be caught.
Xiao Sun had many passports, so he had already developed his own escape method, which he had been using for 5 years and had been successful every time.
In 2018, he was controlled by relevant regulatory authorities for suspected "money laundering" and "illegal fundraising". But the law enforcement officers were too slow, and he had already fled abroad. As if he had foreseen this situation, there was news at the time that he met with the President and Minister of Economy and Industry of Malta in 2018 and spent $1 million to obtain Maltese citizenship.
Later, the young man obtained the citizenship of the Caribbean island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. In other words, Zhang Lan obtained the citizenship of this country.
Moreover, in June 2022, Sun also appeared at the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) held in Geneva as Grenada's permanent representative to the WTO and ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. His identity in Grenada is obvious.
At that time, some media speculated that he was seeking the ambassadorial status in order to gain diplomatic immunity, because when he faced the charges on March 10, he emphasized his ambassadorial status and said that he did not live in the United States and did not have a green card, so he was not involved in any tax issues in the United States.
However, as the saying goes, the net of heaven is vast and long, and nothing can escape it. It is reported that the country where Xiao Sun lives has an extradition agreement with the United States. If he is really convicted, can these passports still help Xiao Sun get through this time?