She tried to close it down, he says, but the dark forces wouldn't let her. The US Department of Prosecutions has charged Ignatova with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud. Founded and led by Dr Ruja Ignatova, a Bulgarian law PHD graduate and businesswoman, it grew quickly, often driven by hyperbolic public events. Then we started looking at some old photos of Ruja, and spotted one friend who appeared with her all the way back to 2011. In her downtime she would throw parties on her luxurious yacht The Davina. "We are concerned about the potential risk this poses to UK consumers.". By March 2017, more than 3.5 billion had been invested in the OneCoin system. But this is the first principle to grasp: money is only valuable because other people think it's valuable. Prof Eileen Barker of the London School of Economics, who has spent years studying groups like the Moonies and Scientologists, says there are similarities between OneCoin and messianic millennium cults, where people believe they are part of something big that is going to change the world - and no matter what the evidence, once they've signed up, it's very hard for them to admit they are wrong. OneCoin was a familiar scam with a digital twist - a new and hugely successful take on the old pyramid scheme. "I thought, 'What???' ", "Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Leaders Of "OneCoin," A Multibillion-Dollar Pyramid Scheme Involving The Sale Of A Fraudulent Cryptocurrency", "BKA - Fahndung nach Personen - Ruja IGNATOVA", https://moneyweek.com/economy/people/605142/ruja-ignatova-profile-crooked-cryptoqueen, "The Outrageous Case of OneCoin, the Billion Dollar Scam Sold as a "Bitcoin Killer", "Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished", "OneCoin Took In Billions. Ms Ignatova, a 42-year-old Bulgaria-born German national, disappeared on 25 October 2017 after being tipped-off about intensifying police investigations into her Sofia-based scam. By the time the webinar had finished she had decided to invest 1,000. Nobody knew why she wasn't there," recalls one delegate. "I can't discuss that. They, like almost everyone else involved, were convinced they were earning a fortune. "Look, nothing has happened. One Property was owned by another company called Risk Ltd. Risk Ltd was owned by Ruja, but was then transferred to some unnamed Panamanians, but it was still managed by another company called Peragon. It is believed that more than a million investors from 175 countries were defrauded into investing in OneCoin. [20], Afterward, the North Rhine-Westphalia Police and German Federal Criminal Police Office announced that Ignatova is sought for fraud charges. Together with Daniel, Georgia and I travel south to meet his mother. OneCoin was not a cryptocurrency and it did not have blockchain technology. "So we need you to build a blockchain," he went on. The FBI launched their most wanted list in 1950 and of the 529 fugitives that have earned an honorable mention, shes one of just 11 women. Just as he was boarding his flight home, he was pounced on by FBI agents, arrested, and charged with fraud in connection with OneCoin. In 2012, she was convicted of fraud in Germany in connection with the acquisition of a steel company obtained by Ruja and her father. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. It was easy: you purchased OneCoin tokens, and these then generated coins, which went into your account. "I've never told her directly that it's not going to work - that there is no more money, there's no more hope," he tells me. Ignatovas brother, Konstantin Ignatova, took over the operation after she fled. The daughter, we were informed, might be in Frankfurt. One week later McAdam bought a "tycoon" package, for 5,000. I am simply a concerned person who cannot tolerate injustice in any form. Here's an example: Ruja bought a very large property in central Sofia. Bulgarian-born German citizen Ruja Ignatova, 42, and a business partner called Sebastian Greenwood conned crypto enthusiasts by claiming their crypto token, OneCoin, would be a Bitcoin killer. For several months, a French journalist called Maxime Grimbert tried to unpick OneCoin's corporate workings, collecting as many company names and bank account details as he could. It starts to get very very very scary, very very very fast." It's a green light for the OneCoin scammers to continue and extort more money from innocent people in the UK and nothing has been done about it. The FBI added Dr. Ruja Ignatova, the so-called 'Cryptoqueen,' to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives. The reason so many people are excited by Bitcoin is that it solves that problem. Ruja's brother Constantin Ignatov, whom she placed in charge of the company after leaving in 2017, was arrested in March 2019. On 6 March 2019 Konstantin Ignatov was at Los Angeles International airport, waiting to fly back to Bulgaria after some OneCoin meetings in the US. She would urge and convince simple people to invest in OneCoin and not be left out of the huge potential profits. It added that the allegations made about it around the world were being challenged, stating: "Our partners, our customers and our lawyers are fighting successfully against this action around the globe and we are sure that the vision of a new system on the basis of a 'financial revolution' will be established. He claims metadata on the files suggests she obtained the information via her own contacts in Bulgaria. Daniel took me and Georgia to meet Prudence, who first introduced him to OneCoin. She started planning holidays and shopping trips. The manager of the database could go in and change it at will. The documents include details of US authorities having a "high-placed confidential informant", OneCoin bank accounts receiving investor funds, and unsuccessful efforts by the UK's City of London Police to interview Ms Ignatova. Jennifer McAdam, a 52-year-old Scottish single parent and businesswoman who fell victim to OneCoin fraud commented that she was pleased the FBI had added Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The family had saved about 3,000 to buy a maize store so that Daniel's mother could stop spending every day in the fields. She asks what news we have about OneCoin. Blame is not easy to apportion. A small beaten down van parked in front and was filled with various office equipment and supplies. Ruja Ignatova and her business partner Sebastian Greenwood conned their clients out of $4 Billion. And his targets were public libraries in America where he would masquerade as a "jolly," well-educated professor and ultimately pillage rare books to the tune of more than half a million dollars. ", I ask him why not. Far from putting an end to their financial worries, she and her friends and family had thrown a quarter of a million euros away. The police files contain presentations made at an "Operation Satellite" Europol meeting in The Hague on 15 March 2017. US authorities have warned that Ruja Ignatova may have changed her appearance since going missing in 2017, FBI agents believe Ms Ignatova travels with armed guards or associates, Mr Schneider was interviewed by the BBC's Jamie Bartlett, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Finding people is his speciality, and there is one thing above all he says we should focus on. Money can buy a lot of friends, and I would imagine shes taking advantage of that.. Except now with plastic surgery, and so harder to spot. Ignatova founded Onecoin in concert with Sebastian Greenwood and her brother, Konstantin Ignatov. Ruja Ignatova, also known as the "missing Cryptoqueen", received police information about investigations into her $4bn (3.5bn) cryptocurrency fraud before she disappeared, it is claimed. "We made in our first month almost 90,000 out of nothing. In 2012, she was convicted of fraud in Germany in connection to the acquisition of a steel company that she and her father acquired. Reluctantly, she agreed to a conversation on Skype. If anyone asks Prudence when the investment is going to deliver the promised riches, she tells them to wait. The crypto queen possibly traveled on a German passport from Athens, possibly to the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Russia, Eastern Europe or even back to Bulgaria, the FBI has said. He was arrested in March 2019 at LA Airport as he was about to board a flight to Bulgaria. In 2020, it was announced that Jennifer McAdam will be portrayed by Kate Winslet in an upcoming Hollywood film about the OneCoin fraud. They are still friends, even though both now realise it's a scam. A few weeks after our meeting Alan gets back in touch, with some amazing information. The 42-year-old Bulgarian-born woman is wanted for her alleged role in running a cryptocurrency scam known as OneCoin. He said he could prove it, too. A reward of $100,000 is offered by the FBI for information leading to her arrest. Listen to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast on BBC Sounds - the search for Dr Ruja Ignatova continues, with a new episode about the police leak out on 19 October. BBC News Ruja Ignatova, also known as the "missing Cryptoqueen", has been placed on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list. When there is nothing of value to sell, though, and all the money is made by recruiting other people, it is illegal and goes by another name: a pyramid scheme. The smallest package cost 140, but they went all the way up to 118,000. Ruja Ignatova, the self-described "Cryptoqueen.". He takes the first one on the list and looks it up on the Companies House website. Until this week, however, the OneCoin head office remained open for business - and people were continuing to promote the currency. The promoters said it was the larger packages that were really life-changing. VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip, Ukraine war casts shadow over India's G20 ambitions, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. That's illegal That is an anonymous shell company, as anonymous as anything that you can buy anywhere in the Seychelles or Nevis or the Marshall Islands or Vanuatu.". VIA HACHETTE BOOKS. The BBC asked the ministry whether its staff could be responsible for the leak, but it did not comment. If it's true she was in these countries earlier this year, she probably has a fake identity. After Jennifer lost her money, she pursued Ignatova for six years and she was disappointed when the City of London police closed their investigation in 2019, saying they could not locate any assets of OneCoin or its founders in the UK. In early June 2016 a 36-year-old businesswoman called Dr Ruja Ignatova walked on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thousands of adoring fans. "That's what they call it. Every time a Bitcoin is sent from me to someone else, a record of that transaction goes into everyone's book. Even the most obscure entry or innocuous comment on a forum is usually saved somewhere, and with enough digging can be found. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which is responsible for regulating financial markets in the UK, issued a warning on its website only in September 2016. Although Jen McAdam had now seen the light, few other OneCoin investors had. The 16th century English buccaneer Sir Francis Drake died without heirs and this has inspired many to search for his supposed fortune, and others to swindle fortune hunters. They'd read, with envy, the stories of people striking gold with Bitcoin and thought OneCoin was a second chance. The Federal Criminal Police Office announced a 5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. "It's hard. Investors often told us that what drew them in initially was the fear that they would miss out on the next big thing. Ignatova was a convincing speaker. VideoRecord numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. When I ask him who might be behind the threats, he won't elaborate. It was launched by two offshore companies: OneCoin Ltd. (based in Bulgaria and registered in Dubai) and OneLife Network Ltd. (registered in Belize). She lives in a concrete house with a tin roof - five small rooms, a small television and a cooking area. "You're told not to believe anything from the 'outside world'," she recalls. It is a tale of 'greed and folly' perhaps even more scandalous than Holmes' billion-dollar Theranos bust-up. Ruja Ignatova profile summary Full name: Ruja Ignatova Date of birth: 30th May 1980 Place of birth: Sofia, Bulgaria Hometown: Schramberg, Baden-Wrttemberg state, Germany Zodiac Sign: Taurus Age: 41 years Company: OneCoin Nationality: Bulgarian Ethnicity: Caucasian Parents: Veska and Plamen Ignatov Sibling: Konstantin Ignatov "You will find her," he said. He points out that he spent millions buying OneCoin, possibly more than anyone else. She had been impressed by Ruja and the upward trend in the price of OneCoin without the fluctuations other cryptocurrencies usually have. The article follows the life of a woman who started with the best possible education and a gifted personality, but threw it all away by making the worst possible life choices. And Peragon was owned by another company called Artefix, which was owned by Ruja's mother, Veska. Nobody - not banks, not governments, or the person who invents it - is in charge or can change it. Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'. ", Such explanations don't offer much comfort to those affected. I've even heard that she might be in London. After Jen McAdam invested into OneCoin she was constantly told she was part of the OneCoin "family". The. The nature of MLM networks - where people often recruit others who are close to them - creates a blurred sense of responsibility. It's not clear who Bjorn and Igor are talking about, or whether they are even talking about the same people, but the US Department of Justice claims to have evidence of a link between Dr Ruja's brother, Konstantin Ignatov - who took over the running of OneCoin when Ruja disappeared - and "significant players in Eastern European organised crime". In the Ntangamo region of Uganda, not far from Rwandan border, most people make their living growing bananas, or sometimes cassava, sweet potato, beans or groundnut. Charles Ponzi is remembered for creating the Ponzi scheme. In court it was revealed that Ignatov signed a plea deal on 4 October, in which he pleaded guilty to several fraud charges. In the FBI's' 72-year history, Ruja is only the 11th woman to appear on this list. Dr Ruja's genius was to take all of this and sell the idea to the masses. Between August 2014 and March 2017 more than 4bn was invested in dozens of countries. Do you know how they do so? Answer 1 of 6: Hello out there. Then he tries checking the company's owners. Several OneCoin events took place in the UK after the FCA took down the warning, and money continued to be invested. "I'm devastated for all the UK victims," Jen McAdam told me, when she heard the news. "Some of their kids are at home sitting without going to school - some don't have anywhere to sleep. "The problem is that when you create this company, no-one checks any of the information provided." In court, US prosecutors alleged in 2019 that Mr Schneider was the one who provided her with confidential police information, although it is not clear if the allegations relate specifically to the leaked files seen by the podcast. "If they still thought we were a fraudulent company, then guess what, that warning's not removed. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Dr Ruja identified several of society's weak spots and exploited them. The book is called The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away With It. "You are so lucky that you're seeing this webinar right now," she was told. Find out here. The inescapable conclusion was that those rising numbers on the OneCoin website were meaningless - they were just numbers typed into a computer by a OneCoin employee. It wasn't a place we'd previously thought of looking. "What's the name of the company?" But when it comes to someone trying to find them - whether that's a journalist or a police officer - they are invisible.". "I said to Andreea, 'We need to build it up to 100 million coins, because when this coin goes to 100 and we have 100 million, we are richer than Bill Gates.' Fairly soon Igor Alberts was making more than 1m a month from OneCoin, which quickly became the biggest product in network marketing. The head office in Sofia, where she was such an imposing presence, didn't know anything either. the congregations replies. The listing of a property in the heart of London has brought a notorious cryptocurrency fugitive who ran a $4 billion Ponzi scheme out of the woodwork. He didn't get it, and in December 2017 he quit. ', "I said: 'What? In November 2019, a jury in Manhattan found Mark Scott, a lawyer for OneCoin, guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering and fraud of $400 million by concealing the ownership and source of the funds. In Europe, less money was invested in the first six months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016. They don't have a blockchain today. And then in 2017, the ownership of Artefix was sold to an unknown man in his 20s. "When you look at my clothes, they are disciplined," he says. Taking seriously Alan McLean's advice about studying Dr Ruja's life before OneCoin, Georgia and I turn to the internet, which fortunately never forgets anything. But it seems it's not just the promise of riches that keeps people believing. "If Dr. Ruja still has the 230,000 bitcoins, she would be one of the currency's largest holders. But later we hear that we might have been in the presence of Dr Ruja - that she was there, in the same room, right in front of our noses. "And he said: 'Well, first of all, they need a blockchain. The Forbes cover isn't: it was actually an inside cover - a paid-for advertisement - from Forbes Bulgaria, but once the real cover was ripped off, it looked impressive. His mother had doubts, but he persuaded her to put the money into OneCoin instead. Dr Ignatova pulled off one of the world's biggest ever scams, based on her new cryptocurrency called 'OneCoin', before disappearing in 2017. 66K views, 1.6K likes, 214 loves, 348 comments, 854 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Cryptoqueen: I would like to share some very personal and exciting news with you. "I can only deduce that it came from the circles that she was in and the connections that she had through a variety of influential personalities.". In October 2022, a documentary called "CryptoqueenThe OneCoin Scam" debuted at Mipcom Cannes. She was dressed, as usual, in an expensive. In August this year, the City of London police ended a two-year investigation into OneCoin. He introduced her to Bjorn Bjercke, the blockchain developer who said there was no blockchain. I haven't given her 100% full confirmation that it won't work. Ruja Plamenova Ignatova ( Bulgarian: , romanized : Rua Plamenova Ignatova; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian -born German citizen and convicted fraudster. List of fugitives from justice who disappeared, " 41- , ", "Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then ran", "The mystery of the disappearing 'Cryptoqueen', "The 4bn OneCoin scam: how crypto-queen Dr Ruja Ignatova duped ordinary people out of billions then went missing", "Is OneCoin The Biggest Financial Fraud in History? Bishop Fred, we learned, is now one of the country's top promoters of OneCoin, though he says it's no longer promoted during church services. She was entered into a Whatsapp group, with its own "leader" who disseminated information from the headquarters in Sofia. In June 2022, the FBI added Ruja Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Former 'Cryptoqueen' is now one of 10 most-wanted fugitives Ruja Ignatova, a founder of OneCoin, is accused of running a $4 billion pyramid scheme By Mara Luisa Pal July 1, 2022 at 7:31 a.m.. OneCoin,. OneCoin, Dr Ruja told the Wembley audience, was the "Bitcoin Killer". Ignatova was married to a German lawyer, with whom she had a daughter in 2016. This is also where Dr Ruja's husband - or perhaps ex-husband - lives and works. Lots of money. When I ask for more details, he replies: "No, I cannot tell that because I don't want to take that risk with our lives.". Then he says I should check what yachts were bought in Athens around the time she arrived there from Sofia. And literally my legs just went, and I fell on the floor,'" she says. she shouted. At the age of 10, her family moved to Germany. We had also visited the town of Waltenhofen in Bavaria, not far away, where she and her father bought a steelworks around a decade ago, an episode that led to her being tried for fraud. If you believe you have been a victim of fraud in relation to OneCoin or you suspect someone of actively marketing OneCoin, please come forward and report it to Action Fraud online.". Those events were packed and organized like rock concerts. But towards the end of the year Jen McAdam was contacted by a stranger on the internet. Yet a typical recruiting event would include no education, but plenty of discussion about investing in cryptocurrency. We already knew that Dr Ruja spent some of her childhood in Schramberg, southern Germany. [11][failed verification] In 2005, she earned a PhD in private international law from the University of Constance in Germany with the dissertation Art. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. OneCoin is no longer operational, with the token unusable and the website inactive. "They still exist", he says, in his garden near the village of Hay-on-Wye. But we need to keep going, we needed to find the house. Technically it was owned by a company called One Property. I don't want to be the person that breaks the news to Daniel's mother. They are now in what's called my downline. Ignatovas associates havent been as lucky. The Onecoin Ponzi was a multi-level-marketing (MLM) venture that featured packages that were ostensibly tethered to a blockchain network. In January 2022, police searched apartments and offices in Weilburg, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt am Main, Bad Homburg, Neu-Isenburg and Vaihingen. And, most frustratingly of all, she correctly guessed that by the time we realised it, she'd be gone, along with the money. According to Bjercke, Dr Ruja never expected OneCoin to grow so big. The opening of a long-promised exchange that would allow OneCoin to be turned into cash kept being delayed - and investors were growing more and more concerned. A book about this case was written by British investigative reporter Jamie Bartlett and published in June 2022. But in Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, it was the other way round. "OK Jen they don't want to disclose that kind of information, just in case something goes wrong where the blockchain is being held. "This is classic," he exclaims. Aliases: Dr. Ruja Ignatova, Ruja Plamenova Ignatova, Ruja P. Ignatova, "CryptoQueen" Date(s) . Officers from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Dubai and Bulgaria were also present. But they used some of this cash to buy more OneCoin. Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency and is still the biggest and best-known - its rise in value from a few cents to hundreds of dollars per coin by mid-2016 had given rise to a frenzy of excitement among investors. It's also notorious for exaggerated promises of high earnings and tough sales targets. DeSantis won't say he's running. Igor Alberts, the MLM seller, also talks about the involvement of "very influential people". How a con man duped struggling farmers into a pigeon breeding scheme that had fraud written all over it. Black-and-gold shoes, black-and-gold pleated suit, black-and-gold shirt, black-and-gold sunglasses, and he has a thick black-and-gold ring on. 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Prudence is a nurse in a Kampala slum, who thought she could make more money selling OneCoin and set about recruiting new investors. Authorities say she may have. I ask her how much she earned from selling OneCoin and she says it was 3,000 - 1,800 of which she received in cash, and which she used to buy more OneCoin. But earlier this month, Ignatova reportedly came out of the woodwork to claim one of her properties. Prestige property seller Knight Frank advertised the property but swiftly took the listing down after it emerged that Ignatova had links to it. She left with a tremendous amount of cash, FBI spokesman Michael Driscoll added. Beginning in . We will be there for a week and wanted to take various day trips as well as tour the actual city. Ignatova started to refer to herself as the Cryptoqueen. 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