Actress Lindsay Lohan, Youtube influencer Jake Paul and several other celebrities have been charged with illegally promoting the cryptocurrencies of a Chinese entrepreneur accused of fraud.The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Wednesday it had charged Justin Sun with artificially inflating the trading volume of Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) and concealing payments made to celebrities to promote the tokens.In its complaint filed in court, the SEC said Sun, who owns the companies Tron Foundation, BitTorrent Foundation and Rainberry, directed employees to conduct hundreds of thousands of simultaneous or near-simultaneous purchases and sales of TRX and BTT with no real change in ownership.
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