Those accounts had a promise to the community to provide infrastructure, development, marketing, and onboarding. There were gained illegally by using tricks and deception to give Steemit Inc an unfair advantage and to bypass Security laws and should never have been sold. It was also a temporary measure to maintain the status quo until we could enter discussions, something that Justin Sun avoided for weeks before that was executed. Will see how prudent it was when Steem gets delisted for being a security token.