{"id":581558,"date":"2023-03-30T22:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T21:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/?p=581558"},"modified":"2023-03-30T22:31:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T21:31:11","slug":"justin-sun-lost-diplomatic-status-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/justin-sun-lost-diplomatic-status-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Tron Founder Justin Sun Lost His Diplomatic Status In 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Justin Sun reportedly had his diplomatic status revoked in June last year.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The Tron founder was stripped of his status as Grenada\u2019s ambassador to the World Trade Organisation.&nbsp;<\/li><li>A change in the ruling party of Grenada led to Sun losing his position as ambassador.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Justin Sun, the man behind the Tron blockchain, was reportedly stripped of his diplomatic status last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/justin-sun-stakes-150000-eth-lido-finance\/\">Sun<\/a>, who has described himself as His Excellency (H.E) in public forums including Twitter, was appointed as Grenada\u2019s permanent ambassador to the World Trade Organization by the country\u2019s government in 2021 to help promote trade, investment, and development opportunities for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Justin Sun still identifies as Grenada\u2019s ambassador to WTO<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/gbn.gd\/grenadas-former-wto-ambassador-charged\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a> from the Grenada Broadcasting Network, the 2022 general elections in Grenada resulted in the ousting of the ruling party, the New National Party. The New National Party\u2019s government had appointed Justin Sun as the country\u2019s permanent ambassador in 2021. As the ambassador, Sun was expected to support the development of human resources, infrastructure, and information and communication technology for Grenada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the National Democratic Congress came to power in June 2022, Sun was stripped of his ambassadorship.&nbsp; The National Democratic Congress government has reportedly recalled all ambassadors in the nine months that they have been in power.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-222.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-581563\" width=\"663\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-222.png 731w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-222-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-222-269x139.png 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Justin Sun has often publicly flexed his diplomatic status, including his self-styling as His Excellency. His Twitter bio reads \u201cHis Excellency Mr. Justin Sun, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Grenada to the WTO.\u201d Interestingly, the Tron founder did not update his bio after losing his diplomatic status and continues to refer to himself as the ambassador to the WTO.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GBN\u2019s report comes after days of speculation regarding Sun\u2019s diplomatic status. A number of rumors on social media claimed that the Tron founder no longer had his ambassadorship. Justin Sun was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2023-59\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">charged<\/a> by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with fraud, market manipulation, and violation of U.S. securities laws.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tron founder Justin Sun reportedly lost his diplomatic status as Grenada&#8217;s permanent ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in June 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":581566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,2,4657,27],"tags":[108871,1057,1255,108872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581567,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581558\/revisions\/581567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}