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Kimbal Musk, the youngest brother of Tesla’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk had sold over 30,000 shares of the electric car manufacturer this month. According to a securities filing, the shares deal is estimated to be $25.6 million. Meanwhile, Antonio Gracias, another director of the board had also sold over 150,000 shares of Tesla earlier this month.

Elon Musk’s youngest brother is a member of the Tesla board. He is also the co-founder of the Kitchen Restaurant Group that he currently owns. Additionally, Kimbal is a board member of SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company. 

Kimbal sold his Tesla stocks at $850 per share

Tesla's stock price surged more than 400% in the past 12 months. Consequently, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla replaced Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world. Meanwhile, Kimbal sold Tesla’s stocks at $850 per share, while the company’s stock closed at under $805 per share on Wednesday. The sale represents 5% of Kimbal’s stake in the electric car manufacturer. 

According to FactSet, Kimbal held 600,000 shares as of last October, making Elon’s little brother the 5th largest insider stockholder. However, Kimbal had sold a lot of his stocks last September.

Meanwhile, Tesla (TSLA) the largest electric car manufacturer in the world had bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC). The company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday — making the company one of the largest investors in the cryptocurrency. Tesla said it bought BTC for “more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash”. The company added in a statement that it might accept BTC as payment in the future.

Nevertheless, the sale generated angry reactions from economists. Nouriel Roubini aka “Dr.Doom” an economist famous for pessimistic market views said that Elon Musk’s tweets about Bitcoin prior to announcing Tesla’s deal is a “market manipulation”. Roubini asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate.

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In an interview with CoinDesk on Wednesday, Roubini said, "First take an individual position in bitcoin, pump the price up, and then say that Tesla has invested. It's also irresponsible and it's market manipulation. The SEC should be looking into people that have a market impact that manipulate the price of assets. That's also criminal behavior."