AccountA has bought or owns the illiquid asset using clean money, in advance. AccountB has the ransom proceeds in the more liquid digital asset. AccountB eventually buys the illiquid asset and pumps it. All the blockchain detectives are still following AccountB across many more addresses and blockchains, hoping and praying and imagining that one of the touched accounts needs fiat so that a human identity can be assigned to the funds. But that never happens. AccountA has the 8,000% or other arbitrarily high gain and nobody can distinguish them from any other crypto trader, as these kinds of gains are commonplace. All the trading can (and should) occur onchain without any financial intermediary, as there would be no transaction size limits or issue moving the funds, compared to odd activity on a business' centralized custodial exchange.
AccountB connected accounts are saddled with the illiquid asset. Maybe organic growth has occurred from fear of missing out and AccountB can resell, but that is just an embellishment and icing on the cake.
AccountB connected accounts can also create the liquidity pool, or create the yield farming opportunities to incentivize others to join the liquidity pool. And if AccountB really never cares about the funds, they can also burn the bearer liquidity pool share, providing confidence to the market that they can always trade at high volumes onchain.