Is there a difference? It's like we were to say that it's not USA that sold but Alaska. Does Saxony have it's own army, does it have borders, do they elect their own president, or chancellor?
If the answer is no, there's no need to differentiate.
The real problem is someone in that independent state is manipulating the market by moving bitcoin to exchanges and back to spook investors instead of selling it since they apparently want to do that. Why not sell OTC if they had such offers and this would be more profitable to them? Or maybe the deal is that they want to lower the price because they have short positions open?
The longer it takes before they actually sell their coins the more you can be sure it's a manipulation.