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Certainly my guess. No way he was actually dumb enough to pay over £600,000 just for an image someone could "steal" 1:1 just by copying and pasting.
It was almost certainly a way to move money somewhere while retaining plausible deniability, just like with all the other ~~scams~~ projects he's been part of over the years
Let me stop you right there...
... Have you seen this guy talk? He's pretty fuckin dumb.
I think it's the exact opposite - no money actually changed hands. They just sell worthless crap to each other to make it look valuable to suckers.
I mean, this is the same guy who bought a pokemon card for 5 million... but he just turned an 11MM profit on that