Ruja Ignatova

Ruja Ignatova, the self-styled 'Cryptoqueen' who allegedly led one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency scams for swindling millions of investors of more ...

According to a report in Outlook, she had a law degree from Oxford University and a stint with consulting firm McKinsey. She’s also one of the most wanted fugitives in Europe. The FBI list has 529 fugitives since it was launched in 1950 and Ignatova is one of just 11 women, CNN reported.

Ignatova established OneCoin in 2014 with the goal of dethroning Bitcoin from its stature of being the most popular digital currency.

Ignatova established OneCoin in 2014 with the goal of dethroning Bitcoin from its stature of being the most popular digital currency. In her wanted poster brought out by the FBI, the authority noted that the Cryptoqueen is believed to be accompanied by armed guards and associates. But some crypto faithful see an upside to the wipe-out of 2022 Using a global network to promote the coin to her friends and their families in exchange for their own payouts, Ignatova and her company generated over $4 billion through the OneCoin pyramid scheme between the fourth quarter of 2014 and the third quarter of 2016. Before boarding her flight from Sofia on 25 October 2017, Ignatova promoted OneCoin as a profitable alternative to Bitcoin in the expanding cryptocurrency sector while giving a presentation at London’s Wembley Arena in 2016. In 2019, the US unveiled an indictment against Ignatova, accusing her of securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiring to launder money. Believed to be very lazy, Koalas’ foremost tasks in daily routine mostly include eating and sleeping. Up to $100,000 reward offered for info leading to her arrest: [https://t.co/oU7EKYqaCi] [pic.twitter.com/tJ8co8aqx0] There are just 11 women out of the 529 fugitives on the list of the FBI, and she is the only female criminal among the top 10 fugitives. Then, she jetted off to Sofia to serve as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Ruja Ignatova, popularly recognised as the ‘Cryptoqueen’, is accused of swindling millions of investors of more than $4 billion or nearly Rs 31,580 crore through her own OneCoin cryptocurrency company. She is listed among the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) top 10 Most Wanted fugitives.

A London penthouse that is believed to belong to Ruja Ignatova, the creator of the notorious OneCoin Ponzi scheme, is listed for sale with a guide price of ...

Ignatova was added to the FBI’s top 10 “most wanted” list in July last year. US prosecutors allege OneCoin has scammed investors across the world out of $4 billion. It suggests she is still alive, and there are documents out there somewhere which contain vital clues as to her recent whereabouts." However, the property has since largely remained empty, other than occasional visits by people connected with OneCoin, including her brother Konstantin. Located in the exclusive Abbots House apartment building in Kensington, the property is described as “an impressive four-bedroom penthouse” and is listed with a guide price of between £11 million to £2.5 million, less than the figure that Ignatova reportedly paid for it. A London penthouse that is believed to belong to Ruja Ignatova, the creator of the notorious OneCoin Ponzi scheme, is listed for sale with a guide price of aroud £11 million.

Now one of the FBI's 10 “most wanted” criminals, Dr Ruja Ignatova is on the run after orchestrating a £3.2bn cryptocurrency scam. “The Missing Cryptoqueen” ...

In the meantime there are a “lot of unanswered questions” about Ignatova that he hopes to answer. He describes it as “one of the most interesting developments in the story” and proof, he hoped, that she was still alive and out there “somewhere”. Bartlett hopes the podcast can continue building on its “unexpected” success and deliver justice to OneCoin’s investors, even after four years of what he calls a “stressful” job. He hopes that we are moving into the “asset tracing and recovery phase” of the OneCoin saga. “They suggest that the numbers are always going to go up and you’re always going to get rich. It’s frustrating to see the same thing happen over and over, because more and more people are putting money into it and not understanding what they’re doing.” “It’s worked in the past,” he explains. Bartlett shows me a poster for a “OneEcosystem tour” that took place around Europe at the end of 2022. “It’s been sort of rebranded but it’s still powered by OneCoin, the same currency and at the same price,” he explains. In the latest episode of The Missing Cryptoqueen, at a Europol meeting it is revealed that five different police forces have been investigating the case and sharing information about what they have found. And a lot of people I knew had lost a lot of money.” A wide-reaching investigation by German and US authorities has led to charges of fraud and money-laundering for her and several members of her team, and resulted in the FBI naming her one of the agency’s 10 most wanted fugitives in July last year.

CNN remembers how in 2016 Ruja Ignatova "touted her company, OneCoin, as a lucrative rival to Bitcoin in the growing cryptocurrency market.

She also proposed an exit strategy should the company fail, saying in a 2014 email to Greenwood that they should "take the money and run and blame somebody else for this...." The documents show Greenwood described their investors as "idiots" and "crazy" in an email to Ignatova's brother, Konstantin Ignatov, who also took part in the scam and assumed OneCoin leadership after his sister vanished, according to prosecutors.... While [co-founder] Greenwood and Ignatova were working on the concept for OneCoin, they referred to it in emails as a "trashy coin," "She timed her scheme perfectly, capitalizing on the frenzied speculation of the early days of cryptocurrency," said Williams, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan. Authorities say OneCoin was a pyramid scheme that defrauded people out of more than $4 billion as Ignatova convinced investors in the US and around the globe to throw fistfuls of cash at her company. Between the fourth quarter of 2014 and the fourth quarter of 2016 alone, investors gave OneCoin more than $4 billion, federal prosecutors said, citing records obtained in the course of their investigation. She is now one of the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, alongside accused gang leaders and murderers, and is the only woman currently on that list.... (Their) lies were designed with one goal, to get everyday people all over the world to part with their hard-earned money." Some $50 million came from investors in the US, according to court documents. Federal prosecutors describe OneCoin as one of the largest international fraud schemes ever perpetrated. As OneCoin's co-founder, Ignatova told one audience in 2016 that "In two years, nobody will speak about Bitcoin anymore. Ignatova and her partners promised buyers a fivefold or even tenfold return on their investment, according to court documents.

It comes after her co-founder, Karl Sebastian Greenwood, plead guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges in Manhattan federal court last month. As well ...

Ignatova and “CryptoQueen”. “It offered investors no method of tracing their money, and it could not be used to purchase anything. Accepting applause from the crowd, she continues: “In the last two years I’ve been called a lot of things. The FBI poster adds that Ignatova has various aliases, including Dr. Ignatova is on the bureau’s ‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitives’ list for “alleged leadership of a massive fraud scheme that affected millions of investors worldwide”. Whether you’re dealing with virtual currency or cold, hard cash, we urge the public to exercise due diligence with any investment.” Unlike authentic cryptocurrencies, which maintain records of their investors’ transaction history, OneCoin had no real value. The best thing the press called me was: ‘OneCoin, who is supposed to be the BitCoin killer’. However, his older sister is still at large, with a federal warrant for Ignatova’s arrest issued on October 12, 2017. The fugitive, who is wanted by the FBI, hasn’t been seen since. You all know since we mined our first coin our growth exploded.” She then claims her company had two million active users which “no other cryptocurrency has”. As well as Greenwood, Ignatova brought in her younger brother Konstantin Ignatov to help lead the “international pyramid scheme that involved the marketing of a fraudulent cryptocurrency”.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has stated that OneCoin was a fraudulently marketed cryptocurrency that was sold to millions of investors across ...

The facade came crashing down when investors tried to sell their OneCoin, and news spread that the entire operation was a scam. According to the FBI, both Greenwood and Ignatova were well aware that OneCoin was a scam, right from the beginning of their operations. The press release said that the value of the cryptocurrency went from 54 cents to US$32.56 without even decreasing in value. The OneCoin Scam unfolded in the mid-2010s when cryptocurrency was still a relatively new concept, and investors were looking for ways to put their money into this digital asset. Even as they were working on the concept of cryptocurrency, they referred to it as a "trashy coin" in their emails. In contrast, Ruja Ignatova, another co-founder, popularly known as "Cryptoqueen" remains untraceable and has made it to the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives list.