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They were targeting companies that performed market manipulation as a service for creators of crypto coins.

So they created a coin to pose as a customer of this service.

It’s just not entrapment at all, it’s not similar or close to entrapment either. It’s analogous to posing as a drug dealer to bust money laundering services, or posing as a car thief to bust a fencing operation.



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