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. In June 2022, she was added to the FBI's 10 most wanted list. Daniel took me and Georgia to meet Prudence, who first introduced him to OneCoin. Ms Ignatova disappeared on 25 October 2017 after being tipped off about intensifying police investigations into her OneCoin cryptocurrency. Oliver describes this kind of dizzying arrangement as "improbably standard". Her biggest aspiration was just to be rich. Authorities say she may have. She never appeared. Some feared she'd been killed or kidnapped by the banks, who - they'd been told - had most to fear from the cryptocurrency revolution. "If they still thought we were a fraudulent company, then guess what, that warning's not removed. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He clicks to see the company's filing history, but where you should see company accounts, there is nothing. They can easily kill me. It wasn't a place we'd previously thought of looking. So it's our blockchain technology, a SQL server with a database.". Do you know how they do so? Like this one at Wembley Arena in London in 2016. At first she was told it was something she didn't need to know, but when she persisted she finally got the truth in a voicemail in April 2017. "Go back to her life before OneCoin. Finding people is his speciality, and there is one thing above all he says we should focus on. [23] This listing was reciprocated by Europol adding Ignatova to its 'most wanted' list; however, Deutsche Welle notes that the Europol listing was removed under unknown circumstances. "That's what they call it. In an ideal world, regulators would take action to protect consumers from scams like OneCoin. From a tiny fragment of a poster advertising a tennis tournament, an expert identified the park in which one photograph was taken. Up to 90 years for the Ponzi scheme. She doesn't speak English either, so I'm shocked to discover, as we sit and talk, that Daniel has never actually told his mother that the money is lost. "You've been planning, planning for something. But there was something very important these investors didn't know. Thanks for contacting us. That I don't know what they're thinking. The company went bankrupt shortly after its acquisition. The manager of the database could go in and change it at will. There, she recruited members to promote OneCoin and sell to their friends and relatives. 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. "They still exist", he says, in his garden near the village of Hay-on-Wye. Dr Ruja Ignatova has been charged with wire fraud, security fraud and money laundering, by the US authorities By Jamie Bartlett Presenter, The Missing Cryptoqueen In June 2016, Dr Ruja. 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. Then he tries checking the company's owners. No wonder it spread like wildfire. And if sellers have invested their own money, they are victims too. Maybe it's just a delay. She was dressed, as usual, in an expensive ballgown, wearing long diamond earrings and bright red lipstick. When we started planning the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast in late 2018, no-one really had a clue what happened to Dr Ruja after her disappearance. Just as he was boarding his flight home, he was pounced on by FBI agents, arrested, and charged with fraud in connection with OneCoin. He told us we were right - Frankfurt is indeed where she spends much of her time. She knew there would be enough people either desperate enough, or greedy enough, or confused enough to take a bet on OneCoin. It's also notorious for exaggerated promises of high earnings and tough sales targets. Even Google - 'Don't listen to Google!'" They don't care! Less than a year later, the warning was removed from the website. "You will find her," he said. Ruja Plamenova Ignatova (Bulgarian: , romanized:Rua Plamenova Ignatova; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian-born German citizen and convicted fraudster. After Dr Ruja's non-appearance in Lisbon, a point came when Igor Alberts, like Jen McAdam, asked to see evidence of the blockchain. For its fans this is a revolutionary new form of currency, with the potential to sideline the banks and national currencies, and provide banking for anyone with a mobile phone. After Jen McAdam invested into OneCoin she was constantly told she was part of the OneCoin "family". "I thought, 'What???' According to the documents, the meeting was attended by the FBI, the US Department of Justice and the New York District Attorney. She exploited the Cryptocurrency boom for a fortune and then disappeared without a trace . In 2012, she was convicted of fraud in Germany in connection to the acquisition of a steel company that she and her father acquired. 2023 BBC. Big companies like Amway and Herbalife use these techniques. Files seen by the BBC from Europol meetings suggest the FBI-wanted fugitive knew about efforts to arrest her months before she vanished. But when the day came, Dr Ruja - who was famously punctual - didn't show up. When you're dealing with a scam worth billions of euros, it's not unusual for shadowy groups to get involved. It was a Ponzi scheme. The company went bankrupt shortly after acquisition under dubious circumstances. Since then, he has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering and fraud charges, and is due to be sentenced next month. No other law enforcement bodies in attendance would confirm how the information got out. What are the things that I'm going to have to do for this company?'" Dr Ruja had vanished. But by this stage, thanks to Curry and Bjercke, she knew that a standard SQL server database was no basis for a genuine cryptocurrency. As the money started drying up in Europe, promoters turned more and more to countries like Uganda. The Onecoin Ponzi was a multi-level-marketing (MLM) venture that featured packages that were ostensibly tethered to a blockchain network. "It's hard. "You can still use them to buy things, you can still use them to buy political influence and nice houses and yachts. On the run since 2017, Dr Ruja Ignat I don't want to be the person that breaks the news to Daniel's mother. She was condemned to 14 months suspended jail sentence. I sell a box to my friends, Georgia and Phil, and make a small cut. One day soon, she was told, she would be able to turn these coins back into euros or pounds. 2023 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. (I tested this explanation on my mother, the family technophobe, and she told me I'd failed to make it clear enough and should start again. They started pitching it to potential investors in 2014, promising between a fivefold and tenfold return, and referred to their investors as idiots and crazy. When Georgia and I called them ourselves to check, they confirmed it. Ignatovas associates havent been as lucky. 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". 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. So we start unearthing previous addresses, known friends, old phone numbers, anything that could help us. Another tip he gives us is to find out where she has been on her yacht. I ask if he felt guilty, for having sold so many people a coin that didn't exist, and for having made so much money in the process. The reason so many people are excited by Bitcoin is that it solves that problem. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Over the next hour or so she listened carefully to people talking enthusiastically about this exciting new cryptocurrency - how it could transform her fortunes. On the same day he was arrested, the FBI declared OneCoin a fraudulent currency. 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 thought I ate their money.". It told the BBC: "OneCoin verifiably fulfils all criteria of the definition of a crypto-currency." But it seems it's not just the promise of riches that keeps people believing. They are now in what's called my downline. But towards the end of the year Jen McAdam was contacted by a stranger on the internet. And even then, the question remained, where had she gone next? She is now on the FBIs list of the 10 most-wanted fugitives and is the only woman currently on the hit list. [26], According to a report published by Bulgarian investigative reporting site Bird, Ignatova was murdered in November 2018 on the orders of a Bulgarian drug lord, Hristoforos Amanatidis, also known as "Taki". 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. She tried to close it down, he says, but the dark forces wouldn't let her. There is some very clever maths behind all this, but this means that Bitcoins can't be faked, they can't be hacked and can't be double-spent. At the age of 10, her family moved to Germany. It said the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast "will not present any truthful information and cannot be considered objective, nor unbiased". 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. ", Some action at the OneCoin HQ at last. 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. At one, in July 2017, the American pop star Bebe Rexha performed a private set. [25] The FBI followed up with an episode of its podcast and YouTube series Inside the FBI devoted to Ignatova and the OneCoin case. Daniel is one of thousands of Ugandans who've bought into Dr Ruja's fake cryptocurrency - and the OneCoin financial documents leaked to the BBC reveal that as time went on, investors like him became increasingly important to OneCoin. The narco-boss is said currently to reside in Dubai, having evaded Bulgarian authorities. She reportedly earned a PhD in private international law from the University of Constance and has a daughter who. She studied at Oxford University and received a PhD in International Law from the University of Constance. "In my opinion, for what it's worth, she's moving around the Mediterranean," he says. The only way to exchange these OneCoins for any other currency was through an internal marketplaceOneCoin Exchange, known as xcoinx. 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. Maybe 1,000 wasn't enough? The Bulgarian woman, believed to be in her 40s, is wanted for her alleged. And literally my legs just went, and I fell on the floor,'" she says. While in Waltenhofen, we learned that she had a German husband, a lawyer for the well-known firm, Linklaters. Aliases: Dr. Ruja Ignatova, Ruja Plamenova Ignatova, Ruja P. Ignatova, "CryptoQueen" Date(s) . They are desperate to get their hands on the conwoman, offering a $100,000 reward for intel that ultimately leads to her arrest. This scam is estimated to be well over four billion dollars. If nothing else it should make it easier for the authorities to freeze that asset and maybe even start getting money back to victims.. To explain this, I need first to explain briefly how a cryptocurrency actually works. Police have warned that she has likely had plastic surgery to change her appearance, with hopes low that she would ever be caught. "We believe consumers should be wary of dealing with OneCoin," it said. [2][7], Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, in 1980,[8] to a Romani family. The fact that OneCoin was operating internationally also created difficulties for the authorities. She started her own company, OneCoin, in 2014 with her brother Konstantin Ignatov, which was touted as a lucrative rival to the leading . [9] Ignatova emigrated to Germany with her family when she was ten years old, and spent part of her childhood in Schramberg in the state of Baden-Wrttemberg. (She received a fine and a suspended sentence in October 2016.) Strehl, husband of one the biggest scammers Ruja, was invisible during the whole OneCoin saga. 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FBI records presented in court documents earlier this year indicate that on 25 October 2017, just two weeks after her Lisbon no-show, she boarded a Ryanair flight from Sofia to Athens. In November 2021, her stake would have peaked at nearly $15 billion, but it has now dropped, still more than enough to help her stay hidden.". Game over.". Will she get her money back? Ignatova was married to a German lawyer, with whom she had a daughter in 2016. The worlds most wanted woman is now officially listed as the ultimate beneficial owner of a London penthouse,he told iNews. Ruja Ignatova is wanted for her alleged participation in a large-scale fraud scheme. The agency is also offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to her arrest. 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. In her downtime she would throw parties on her luxurious yacht The Davina. 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"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.". Dr Ruja's genius was to take all of this and sell the idea to the masses. 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. But to me it symbolises something else too. Following the success of Bitcoin and the subsequent explosion of its price, investors who bought early at a low price made huge returns. This is also where Dr Ruja's husband - or perhaps ex-husband - lives and works. This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 21:13. Blame is not easy to apportion. 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. You think, 'Wait a bit longer. But there was something wrong. [21][22] An Interpol Red Notice followed. 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. OneCoin has always denied wrongdoing. Its understood Ignatova purchased the property under a company name, but a new rule means that the beneficiary of said company must also be named in full. In 2017, Ignatova was already under investigation by the City of London Police, the German authorities, as well as the FBI and Europol, for a string of charges including securities and wire fraud and money laundering. The alleged murderer, Hristo Hristov, who is also Bulgarian, is currently serving time in a Dutch prison for drug trafficking. By contrast, Jen McAdam says she bears a heavy burden of guilt. Ignatova started to refer to herself as the Cryptoqueen. It's also been suggested that there are powerful people who might protect her in her native Bulgaria - and that she could hide in plain sight because of plastic surgery that makes her unrecognisable. We called the lawyer who is (or was) married to her, and he didn't want to talk. Ruja's ambition was to create a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin for the ordinary person who was not an experienced investor, but who could invest a smaller amount of money and make a considerable profit. In the FBI's' 72-year history, Ruja is only the 11th woman to appear on this list. 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. You told me it was a cryptocurrency company.'". I am simply a concerned person who cannot tolerate injustice in any form. He was an Italian immigrant whose investment scam resulted in people losing tens of millions of dollars. The FBI did not comment on the Europol documents, but Special Agent Paul Roberts told the podcast: "There were investigations all around the world into her, and into OneCoin generally, many of which she had become aware of due to actions by law enforcement in other countries.". By the time the webinar had finished she had decided to invest 1,000. "If you have your money and it's taken away from you, life becomes stressful," she says. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. 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