Nothing in that article states that the coins were sold above market price. The only publicly known data points were some significantly below-market bids (<$500 when the market price was ~$600) that did not win.
There were some public statements by executives at several bitcoin exchanges who revealed their losing bids, and they were close to (but below) market price, so it's not unthinkable that the winning bids were for market price or above.
pcthrowaway|11 years ago