Several days ago, a penthouse apartment in the London suburb of Kensington, England, went up for sale with an asking price of 12.5 million [$15.5 million] which was then downgraded to 11 million [$13.6 million]. He claims metadata on the files suggests she obtained the information via her own contacts in Bulgaria. In an interconnected global economy, assets can simply vanish, and you end up chasing shadows. "I think she was so scared in the fall of 2017 that she decided to skip.". In 2014, 34-year-old Ignatova and Sebastian Greenwood, an expert in multi-level marketing, launched a cryptocurrency called OneCoin. She was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted in June 2022. The FBI added Dr. Ruja Ignatova, the so-called 'Cryptoqueen,' to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives. Dr Ruja's genius was to take all of this and sell the idea to the masses. [11][failed verification] In 2005, she earned a PhD in private international law from the University of Constance in Germany with the dissertation Art. We explore the path she followed in her business life, making her extremely rich, extremely quicklybut it was all done at the expense of others. [17], On 25 October 2017 Ignatova disappeared after being tipped off about increasing police investigations about OneCoin. It's going to go bigger. One day soon, she was told, she would be able to turn these coins back into euros or pounds. The promoters said it was the larger packages that were really life-changing. I had no clue that it could be false. VideoRecord numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. She spotted that society's defence against OneCoin - the law-makers, the police, and also us in the media would struggle to understand what was happening. In fact, she had gone underground. 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 was dressed, as usual, in an expensive ballgown, wearing long diamond earrings and bright red lipstick. Charles Ponzi is remembered for creating the Ponzi scheme. Sitting at her computer, the Glaswegian clicked on a link and joined a OneCoin webinar. I didn't even know what is a blockchain What doubt can I have?". You can listen to episodes here. "I felt responsibility. Levy launched a legal case for compensation for OneCoin victims with British Indian Ocean Territory because it hosted a web domain, allegedly used by OneCoin. From either Greece or Romania Dr Ruja could be extradited to the US. You think, 'Wait a bit longer. I show his results to Bullough, who immediately notices how many British companies there are. The company went bankrupt shortly after acquisition under dubious circumstances. (And I, at the top, would be making a cut on all the sales. Born on May 30, 1980, in Bulgaria, Ignatova moved to Germany with her family when she was 10 years old. asked Bjercke. This was to be resolved at a large gathering of European OneCoin promoters in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2017. "You can still use them to buy things, you can still use them to buy political influence and nice houses and yachts. On the same day he was arrested, the FBI declared OneCoin a fraudulent currency. 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. He clicks to see the company's filing history, but where you should see company accounts, there is nothing. Now this link has been confirmed Bartlett said it could be a breakthrough. Europol said it was looking into the issue. Dr Ruja herself made a powerful impression too, with her "princess's dresses" and her vision of a financial revolution. From the very beginning, she was a gifted child and always at the top of her class. MLM is not illegal. Will she get her money back? He tells me he's received death threats as a result of speaking out. A couple of people looked at the photographs and paused for a long time, raising our hopes - but then said they didn't recognise her. "The problem is that when you create this company, no-one checks any of the information provided." 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. A reward of $100,000 is offered by the FBI for information leading to her arrest. Prudence is a nurse in a Kampala slum, who thought she could make more money selling OneCoin and set about recruiting new investors. ", The webinar hosts talked about Dr Ruja's glittering background: Oxford University, a PhD from Konstanz, a stint with the respected management consultancy, McKinsey and Company A speech Dr Ruja had given at a conference hosted by The Economist magazine was shown - and that's what clinched it for McAdam. All of them were "very up-tempo, full of beans, full of passion", she remembers. In 2016 it was here that 22-year-old Daniel Lienhardt came as he was scraping together the 700,000 Ugandan shillings ($250) he needed to buy a OneCoin starter package. [14][15], In 2013, she was involved with a multi-level marketing scam called BigCoin. "Some of their kids are at home sitting without going to school - some don't have anywhere to sleep. Investors who have worked hard their whole life and saved some money risked these savings, believing that by investing in OneCoin they could have a better future. The police documents were passed to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast by Frank Schneider, a former spy and trusted adviser to Ms Ignatova. He was initially contracted by OneCoin in order to develop their blockchain for them. He told us we were right - Frankfurt is indeed where she spends much of her time. The. She exploited the Cryptocurrency boom for a fortune and then disappeared without a trace . Blame is not easy to apportion. The FCA said it had been up for long enough, but OneCoin promoters presented this as proof that the UK authorities considered OneCoin a legitimate investment. 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. A senior promoter gave her a nice car to impress customers, and instructed her to visit farmers when their crops were being harvested and they had money in their pocket. On 5 November 2019, the day after the final episode of The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast was released, Dr Ruja's brother, Konstantin Ignatov, appeared in court in New York, testifying for the government in a case against a lawyer accused of laundering $400m of the money OneCoin made in the US. [25] The FBI followed up with an episode of its podcast and YouTube series Inside the FBI devoted to Ignatova and the OneCoin case. Now comes the story of Ruja Ignatova, the Bulgarian-born 'Cryptoqueen': an Oxford graduate who made billions by extorting normal people seduced by her cryptocurrency OneCoin. It's also notorious for exaggerated promises of high earnings and tough sales targets. A court reporter was there to hear his testimony, and according to his account of the proceedings Ignatov appears to have implied that his sister had duped him with the same line the organisation put out to its investors - that OneCoin critics were "haters" who could not be believed. I've also been told by more than one person that it could be as much as 15bn. Dr Ruja Ignatova called her creation the 'Bitcoin killer' - and her hype duped a million investors. On the other hand, Ruja and her collaborators amassed millions, which provided them with an affluent lifestyle: they bought luxury yachts, expensive jewelery and exclusive properties. Dr. Ruja Ignatova, 41, pictured here in 2015, is wanted by Interpol because they say she cheated people who wanted to invest their money in cryptocurrency. They didn't feel they were taking a risk, because they trusted Ruja and her education and work experience. ", I ask him why not. There were several old addresses in the Frankfurt area - ones she'd posted in forums many years ago, or were associated somehow with old phone numbers of hers. Sixty per cent of the income Igor Alberts and Andreea Cimbala made from OneCoin (in the end, more than 2m per month) was paid in cash, the rest in OneCoin. She can't bring herself to tell them the truth. 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 narco-boss is said currently to reside in Dubai, having evaded Bulgarian authorities. Far from putting an end to their financial worries, she and her friends and family had thrown a quarter of a million euros away. So don't worry too much if you don't follow it either.) 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. I explain that this is probably beyond my abilities (apart from being illegal). Ruja Ignatova and her business partner Sebastian Greenwood conned their clients out of $4 Billion. We also learned that Dr Ruja had a daughter in late 2016, and that she remained very close to her. "One Life!" 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". And even then, the question remained, where had she gone next? This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 21:13. A reward is offered for information leading to the arrest of the co-founder of the alleged cryptocurrency 'OneCoin' in hiding since 2017. bka.de/oeffentlichkeitsfahndung14", "Ruja Ignatova: What we know about the OneCoin affair DW 07/05/2022", "OneCoin's Missing 'Crypto Queen' Is Now One of Europe's Most-Wanted Fugitives", https://twitter.com/VessOnSecurity/status/1627201381873352704/, "The life and crimes of Ruja Ignatova, new to FBI's 10 Most Wanted Ruja Ignatova", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruja_Ignatova&oldid=1141594616, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Bulgarian-language text, Articles with failed verification from February 2023, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. Big companies like Amway and Herbalife use these techniques. Video, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, Listen to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast on BBC Sounds, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Prince Andrew offered Frogmore Cottage - reports, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Beer and wine sales in Canada fall to all-time low, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms. Why have so many people continued to believe in OneCoin, despite all the evidence? "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.". 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. But earlier this month, Ignatova reportedly came out of the woodwork to claim one of her properties. 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. By March 2017, more than 3.5 billion had been invested in the OneCoin system. Ruja's brother Constantin Ignatov, whom she placed in charge of the company after leaving in 2017, was arrested in March 2019. '", Money might push people to invest in the first place, but the sense of belonging, of doing something, of achieving something, is why they stay, Barker says. 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.. Dr Ruja's genius was to recognise that established MLM sellers with huge downlines were the perfect vehicle to market her fake coin - a plan the FBI says she privately referred to as "the bitch of Wall Street, meets MLM". One of the main OneCoin offices in Kampala is attached to a church. (She received a fine and a suspended sentence in October 2016.) 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. July 1, 2022 By Jamie Barlett. The police files contain presentations made at an "Operation Satellite" Europol meeting in The Hague on 15 March 2017. Officers from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Dubai and Bulgaria were also present. (Her) lies were designed with one goal, to get everyday people all over the world to part with their hard-earned money.. Phil and Georgia both recruit two people, and then all four of them recruit two more, and so on. he shouts. They have filed no financial information at all." The head office in Sofia, where she was such an imposing presence, didn't know anything either. According to the BBC, farmers in Uganda sold their livestock and invested their money in OneCoin, hoping for a better life for their families and themselves. And if sellers have invested their own money, they are victims too. 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. ", The City of London Police told the BBC: "There was insufficient evidence to support criminal proceedings against individuals based in the UK, though the force has never specified that there had been no concerns surrounding OneCoin. In fact, OneCoins were entirely worthless, he said, per CNN. Prestige property seller Knight Frank advertised the property but swiftly took the listing down after it emerged that Ignatova had links to it. Dr Ruja Ignatova offered a cryptocurrency of her own devising called OneCoin. Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen. 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. Here's an example: Ruja bought a very large property in central Sofia. This is notoriously difficult - go online and you'll find hundreds of different descriptions, some of them utterly baffling to the non-specialist. pic.twitter.com/Qv2nNE8Mwf. [10][2] Claims that she may have studied at University of Oxford in England give no details of college, course, or date of matriculation. Backstage at London's Wembley Arena, Dr. Ruja Ignatova was nervously pacing up and down, dressed, as usual, in a full-length ball gown. "And he said: 'Well, first of all, they need a blockchain. Could she really be hiding out in the heart of the EU? That was the last time anyone saw or heard from Dr Ruja. At the age of 10, her family moved to Germany. Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'. In January 2022, police searched apartments and offices in Weilburg, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt am Main, Bad Homburg, Neu-Isenburg and Vaihingen. By contrast, Jen McAdam says she bears a heavy burden of guilt. 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. "It's hard. Answer 1 of 6: Hello out there. "If Dr. Ruja still has the 230,000 bitcoins, she would be one of the currency's largest holders. She never appeared. Every time a Bitcoin is sent from me to someone else, a record of that transaction goes into everyone's book. It was launched by two offshore companies: OneCoin Ltd. (based in Bulgaria and registered in Dubai) and OneLife Network Ltd. (registered in Belize). 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. [18] In 2019, her brother Konstantin Ignatov pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering in connection with the scheme. "You must dig deeper.". Reluctantly, she agreed to a conversation on Skype. He thought OneCoin would give cryptocurrencies a bad name, and he told McAdam bluntly that it was a scam - "the biggest scam in the [expletive] world". She tried to close it down, he says, but the dark forces wouldn't let her. Her collaborators started getting arrested on securities and fraud charges and money laundering. Its working title is Fake! "This is supposed to mean that you can no longer use a British company to hide behind," he says, as he scrolls down the page. She is best known as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as OneCoin, which The Times has described as "one of the biggest scams in history". Everything is meant to be transparent - the website contains the details of every company in the UK. They can easily kill me. "So we need you to build a blockchain," he went on. Frantic calls and messages went unanswered. Do you know how they do so? Europol told the BBC it was looking into the matter, adding: "This complex scenario with many stakeholders makes it difficult to assess where and how such an incident might have occurred.". She studied at Oxford University and received a PhD in International Law from the University of Constance. "When prophecy fails they believe more strongly," she says. In early October 2016 - four months after Dr Ruja's London appearance - a blockchain expert called Bjorn Bjercke was called by a recruitment agent, with a curious job offer. Find out who her friends were, what her lifestyle was like, her family.". Nobody knew why she wasn't there," recalls one delegate. OneCoin was still growing fast, and Dr Ruja was starting to spend her new fortune: buying multi-million-dollar properties in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, and the Black Sea resort of Sozopol. James Richard Shinn was a book lover. This was the secret of OneCoin's success. ', "I said: 'What? The Rothschild family (/ r (s) t a l d / ROTH(S)-chylde, German: [ot.lt]) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s. Some are running because they got loans from a bank. In June 2022, she was added to the FBI's 10 most wanted list. [19], In 2022, prosecutors in Darmstadt, Germany confirmed an investigation of "a lawyer from Neu-Isenburg" for possible money laundering: the transfer of 7.69 million euros by Ignatova into one of her private accounts in 2016. In November of the same year, he pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and fraud. Read about our approach to external linking. It turned out to be a shouting match, but it would send McAdam's life in a new direction. To buy the packages some sold their cattle, their land and even their houses - with disastrous consequences. Ruja Ignatova, with the help of a partner, created a crypto currency that was a scam. In general, people are tempted by the idea of making huge profits fast. In 2016, Ms. McAdam had been in bed due to a chronic illness and she was unable to work. 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. Maybe it's just a delay. Bulgarian-born German citizen Ruja Ignatova, FBIs list of the 10 most-wanted fugitives. Around the same time, the US authorities charged Dr Ruja in absentia for wire fraud, security fraud and money laundering. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. He was arrested in March 2019 at LA Airport as he was about to board a flight to Bulgaria. You can also see more on the next episode of BBC Click. And every item of clothing is Dolce and Gabbana. Investors often told us that what drew them in initially was the fear that they would miss out on the next big thing. Do you know who to complain to when you are a victim of a Ponzi scheme or pyramid scheme? The fact that OneCoin was operating internationally also created difficulties for the authorities. Investigative reporter Jamie Bartlett, host ofThe Missing Cryptoqueenpodcast, in conjunction with the BBC, initially flagged a tenuous link between the fraudster and the penthouse. Nobody - not banks, not governments, or the person who invents it - is in charge or can change it. Many were struck by the personality and persuasiveness of the "visionary" Dr Ruja. She feels guilty towards those who she introduced to OneCoin, she says, but also towards her late father, a miner, who worked hard all his life in horrible conditions, and left her the money that she then gave away. When I ask him who might be behind the threats, he won't elaborate. Before too long they had passed 100,000 - a 10-fold return. "You've been planning, planning for something. "We are concerned about the potential risk this poses to UK consumers.". Ruja Ignatova celebrating her birthday with her husband and OneCoin members. From that amount, he had collected $50 million in fees. Georgia suggests we tell Daniel's mother that we are journalists, and that we are investigating OneCoin because a lot of people aren't getting their money. 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. There are also investors who feel guilty. Jen McAdam on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, The video of Dr Ruja at the Economist conference was what clinched it for Jen McAdam, Igor Alberts and Andreea Cimbala outside their house, Daniel, Prudence and Jamie with children in the poor area of Kampala where Prudence works as a nurse, Dr Ruja was renowned for expensive dresses and red lipstick, Dr Ruja posted a video of herself with her baby on social media, Dr Ruja comes on stage at Wembley to the song This Girl Is On Fire. There were rumours of course - lots of them. the FBI added Ruja Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away With It, Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished, The life and crimes of Ruja Ignatova, new to FBI's 10 Most Wanted Ruja Ignatova, https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/fbi-adds-cryptoqueen-to-ten-most-wanted-fugitives-list-for-fraud.htm, 'Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova added to FBI's top ten most wanted list. ), 'Hun, this could be your opportunity to get rich'. When investors became members promoting OneCoin, they were getting a percentage margin on the proceeds from the people they had introduced and persuaded to invest in the company. A change in the rules of Companies House the UK equivalent of ASIC forced Ignatova out of hiding, as she had to be named in full rather than just her shell company. 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