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.". He didn't get it, and in December 2017 he quit. People involved at the early stages have told him it was never supposed to be a billion-dollar scam. This is clearly a question for a professional, which is why Georgia and I went to see private investigator Alan McLean. In June 2022, the FBI added Ruja Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. At one, in July 2017, the American pop star Bebe Rexha performed a private set. She now runs Whatsapp support groups for OneCoin investors who realise they have been swindled. "They still exist", he says, in his garden near the village of Hay-on-Wye. So we start unearthing previous addresses, known friends, old phone numbers, anything that could help us. 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. From a tiny fragment of a poster advertising a tennis tournament, an expert identified the park in which one photograph was taken. Dr Ruja had vanished. Unlike Ignatova, however, he didnt stay free for very long. 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. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. By contrast, Jen McAdam says she bears a heavy burden of guilt. Perhaps it would put him in an uncomfortable position. He takes the first one on the list and looks it up on the Companies House website. So with Georgia Catt, producer of The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, I went to see Oliver Bullough, an expert on what he calls Moneyland - the shadowy parallel world where criminals and the super-rich hide their wealth. Several OneCoin events took place in the UK after the FCA took down the warning, and money continued to be invested. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. 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. 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. She asks what news we have about OneCoin. Up to 90 years for the Ponzi scheme. He was arrested in March 2019 at LA Airport as he was about to board a flight to Bulgaria. "You're told not to believe anything from the 'outside world'," she recalls. She started planning holidays and shopping trips. Ruja's brother Constantin Ignatov, whom she placed in charge of the company after leaving in 2017, was arrested in March 2019. In early 2019, she was charged in absentia by U.S. authorities for wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering. Thousands of people were gathering in venues, all over the world, to see and hear her presentations. To buy the packages some sold their cattle, their land and even their houses - with disastrous consequences. Realizing that an arrest warrant was imminent and fearing that she could spend the rest of her life behind bars, Ruja decided to flee. The daughter, we were informed, might be in Frankfurt. By March 2017, more than 3.5 billion had been invested in the OneCoin system. It's hard to say.". A cryptocurrency start-up from Bulgaria was looking for a chief technical officer. ), 'Hun, this could be your opportunity to get rich'. Ignatova was a convincing speaker. At the gated entrance to their mansion is a 10ft-high wrought iron gate with their names and the slogan "What dreams may come". "I'm devastated for all the UK victims," Jen McAdam told me, when she heard the news. This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 21:13. 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. She exploited the Cryptocurrency boom for a fortune and then disappeared without a trace . Documents leaked to the BBC say 4bn between August 2014 and March 2017. [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. "Look, nothing has happened. She vanished, he said, because she was afraid that somebody close to her was going to give her up to the FBI. "No other company even came close," Alberts says. Barely a year later, she bamboozled billions and left it behind (not the money) - family included. They don't have a blockchain today. Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished, BBC News, November 24, 2019, https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61966824, https://www.banklesstimes.com/news/2021/11/17/onecoin-alive-and-kicking-in-bulgaria-govt-assisted-crypto-pyramid-scheme/. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. (She received a fine and a suspended sentence in October 2016.) So much for following the money. So when an opportunity arises, they have the fear of missing out. Dr Ruja identified several of society's weak spots and exploited them. 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. ", I ask him why not. "You're in at such an early stage and it's just going to go like Bitcoin. McAdam started a Facebook support group for other defrauded victims of OneCoin. [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". The force has provided assistance to foreign law enforcement partners in respect of their investigations concerning OneCoin personnel and will continue to do this. Alberts was brought up in a poor neighbourhood. Then he got into network marketing, or multi-level marketing (MLM) as it is often known, and started making money. [10][2] Claims that she may have studied at University of Oxford in England give no details of college, course, or date of matriculation. They, like almost everyone else involved, were convinced they were earning a fortune. Bjercke would get an apartment and a car - and an attractive annual salary of about 250,000. The self-styled crypto queen, however, is now wanted by law enforcement for her involvement in the OneCoin scheme. 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. "One Coin!" 2023 BBC. "This is classic," he exclaims. She was dressed, as usual, in an expensive. He claims he has made 100m over the last 30 years. Phil and Georgia both recruit two people, and then all four of them recruit two more, and so on. ", 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. This proved to be fraudulent and she was sentenced to 14 months suspended jail sentence. You think, 'Wait a bit longer. The book is called The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away With It. Ignatova started to refer to herself as the Cryptoqueen. Sitting at her computer, the Glaswegian clicked on a link and joined a OneCoin webinar. 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. asked Bjercke. Like this one at Wembley Arena in London in 2016. That was the last time anyone saw or heard from Dr Ruja. 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". James Richard Shinn was a book lover. Ruja Ignatova and her business partner Sebastian Greenwood conned their clients out of $4 Billion. The degrees are genuine. 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. (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. This is notoriously difficult - go online and you'll find hundreds of different descriptions, some of them utterly baffling to the non-specialist. The Onecoin Ponzi was a multi-level-marketing (MLM) venture that featured packages that were ostensibly tethered to a blockchain network. The UK began to insist recently that companies must enter the name of the person with "significant control" - the real owner. VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Why Covid lab-leak theory is now being taken seriously, 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. Dr Ruja was still travelling the world to sell her vision - hopping from Macau to Dubai to Singapore, filling out arenas, pulling in new investors. Following her studies, she became a . Several of the people Georgia and I interviewed spoke darkly about mysterious people and connections they didn't want to name. 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. 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? Less than a year later, the warning was removed from the website. Looking to get ideas for places to take our 3 year old while in Frankfurt. Thanks for contacting us. Hotels near Romer Hotels near Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof Hotels near Main Tower Hotels near Cathedral of St. Bartholomew (Dom St. Bartholomaus) Hotels near Stadel Museum Hotels near Palmengarten Hotels near Iron Bridge Hotels near Zoo Frankfurt Hotels near Senckenberg Natural History Museum (Naturmuseum Senckenberg) Hotels near Frankfurt am Main You can also see more on the next episode of BBC Click. 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.. 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. 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. He told us we were right - Frankfurt is indeed where she spends much of her time. Until this week, however, the OneCoin head office remained open for business - and people were continuing to promote the currency. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. Some are hiding. Investors often told us that what drew them in initially was the fear that they would miss out on the next big thing. He introduced her to Bjorn Bjercke, the blockchain developer who said there was no blockchain. Ignatovas brother, Konstantin Ignatova, took over the operation after she fled. They'd read, with envy, the stories of people striking gold with Bitcoin and thought OneCoin was a second chance. 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. 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's thought to be a key anti-corruption tool. 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. Except now with plastic surgery, and so harder to spot. You've heard of Google, but there are several other search engines that specialise in this. While in Waltenhofen, we learned that she had a German husband, a lawyer for the well-known firm, Linklaters. His mother had doubts, but he persuaded her to put the money into OneCoin instead. She tried to close it down, he says, but the dark forces wouldn't let her. I show his results to Bullough, who immediately notices how many British companies there are. 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. Author's note: I am not an expert in cryptocurrencies. I haven't given her 100% full confirmation that it won't work. "We've been unable to identify UK-based assets, which could be used to compensate UK investors. (Source: Indias Magazine) The pair are blessed with one daughter. They have filed no financial information at all." The promoters said it was the larger packages that were really life-changing. But it is controversial, because usually only a small number of people make all the money. Backstage at London's Wembley Arena, Dr. Ruja Ignatova was nervously pacing up and down, dressed, as usual, in a full-length ball gown. On the same day he was arrested, the FBI declared OneCoin a fraudulent currency. The police files contain presentations made at an "Operation Satellite" Europol meeting in The Hague on 15 March 2017. "What's the name of the company?" It was only earlier this year that the US authorities revealed she'd flown to Athens on 25 October 2017. "If I knew what I would have to go through, I would have never blown the whistle. "She was on her way. In 2016, Ms. McAdam had been in bed due to a chronic illness and she was unable to work. This was the secret of OneCoin's success. At the age of 10, her family moved to Germany. She is big on the fairytale and cinderella stuff so castles. They have persuaded their friends and families to invest in OneCoin. I've also been told by more than one person that it could be as much as 15bn. Beginning in . [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. Ruja Ignatova is wanted for her alleged participation in a large-scale fraud scheme. There are also investors who feel guilty. There's a famous saying in journalism, "Follow the money." 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. This platform was launched after many delays. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 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. [17], On 25 October 2017 Ignatova disappeared after being tipped off about increasing police investigations about OneCoin. 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. Sky Germany, the U.K.'s Channel 4 and super-indie Fremantle are backing a three-part doc series about the con, which was spearheaded by the mysterious Dr. Ruja Ignatova, who is still on the run . I've even heard that she might be in London. But we need to keep going, we needed to find the house. Daniel took me and Georgia to meet Prudence, who first introduced him to OneCoin. According to OneCoin, its main business was selling educational material for cryptocurrency trading. But when Daniel found out about OneCoin, it suddenly seemed like a much better alternative. 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. Prudence is a nurse in a Kampala slum, who thought she could make more money selling OneCoin and set about recruiting new investors. As the money started drying up in Europe, promoters turned more and more to countries like Uganda. A Maserati and Aston Martin are parked outside. Onecoin's Ruja Ignatova is a mysterious woman who has been on the run for over three years now. "I've been telling her it's changing. He points out that he spent millions buying OneCoin, possibly more than anyone else. "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.". [24], The Federal Bureau of Investigation added Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, and announced at a joint press conference with IRS Criminal Investigation and United States Attorney's Office Southern District of New York, offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to her arrest. Strehl, husband of one the biggest scammers Ruja, was invisible during the whole OneCoin saga. All of them were "very up-tempo, full of beans, full of passion", she remembers. After Jen McAdam invested into OneCoin she was constantly told she was part of the OneCoin "family". Video, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Covid origin likely China lab incident - FBI chief, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US. They live in an enormous house in an affluent neighbourhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. 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 companies and individuals behind OneCoin are based outside UK jurisdiction," it said. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Bjorn Bjercke is a blockchain expert and he was the first person who started speaking publicly against OneCoin. It was easy: you purchased OneCoin tokens, and these then generated coins, which went into your account. 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 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. 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". Before long, she had invested 10,000 of her own money - and persuaded friends and family to invest 250,000 of theirs. "It's hard. Details first surfaced in 2021 in leaked documents from Dubai's courts, posted online by Dr. Jonathan Levy, a UK-based lawyer, who described her as "the most successful criminal in history.". Greatly feared for his use of violence, Silas Jayne operated in the very dark underworld of the champion horse business. She is thought to have undergone several plastic surgeries in order to alter her appearance. Why have so many people continued to believe in OneCoin, despite all the evidence? ", 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. According to the report, Ignatova was murdered aboard a yacht in the Ionian Sea, and her body was dismembered and cast overboard. I don't want to be the person that breaks the news to Daniel's mother. But then I recruit Georgia and Phil to start selling too, and I make a cut on their sales as well. 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. 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. In fact, she had gone underground. Maybe it's just a delay. "One Life!" Just as he was boarding his flight home, he was pounced on by FBI agents, arrested, and charged with fraud in connection with OneCoin. Back July 2018 he was arrested in Koh Samui, Thailand, and extradited to the US where he pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money. "And in that sense it's cultic.". In November of the same year, he pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and fraud. Ignatova founded Onecoin in concert with Sebastian Greenwood and her brother, Konstantin Ignatov. Dr. Ruja Ignatova is the only scammer who is on both the FBI and Interpol's 2022 Ten Most Wanted Lists. Then, two years ago, she disappeared. Ruja Plamenova Ignatova ( Bulgarian: , romanized : Rua Plamenova Ignatova; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian -born German citizen and convicted fraudster. It's no surprise, then, that OneCoin's corporate structure is incredibly complicated. The smallest package cost 140, but they went all the way up to 118,000. It starts to get very very very scary, very very very fast." Find out who her friends were, what her lifestyle was like, her family.". The manager of the database could go in and change it at will. "In two years, nobody will speak about Bitcoin any more!" There are videos of the minister, known as Bishop Fred, leading the congregation in call and response. From the very beginning, she was a gifted child and always at the top of her class. That I don't know what they're thinking. Everything is meant to be transparent - the website contains the details of every company in the UK. She was condemned to 14 months suspended jail sentence. The US lawyer prosecuting Ignatova, Damian Williams, released a damning statement last month where he said her crypto tokens were useless. Today doors are locked. 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. pic.twitter.com/Qv2nNE8Mwf. "They're very easy to set up and they look legitimate.". Lots of money. The head office in Sofia, where she was such an imposing presence, didn't know anything either. "Some of their kids are at home sitting without going to school - some don't have anywhere to sleep. It said the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast "will not present any truthful information and cannot be considered objective, nor unbiased". There were limitations as to how many OneCoins could be exchanged for any other currency per day. 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.". But earlier this month, Ignatova reportedly came out of the woodwork to claim one of her properties. Some sources think it could be four times that amount. And if you get in early, there's the chance to make a fortune. The 42-year-old Bulgarian-born woman is wanted for her alleged role in running a cryptocurrency scam known as OneCoin. Files seen by the BBC from Europol meetings suggest the FBI-wanted fugitive knew about efforts to arrest her months before she vanished. She started her own company, OneCoin, in 2014 with her brother Konstantin Ignatov, which was touted as a lucrative rival to the leading . OneCoin was a familiar scam with a digital twist - a new and hugely successful take on the old pyramid scheme. She lives in a concrete house with a tin roof - five small rooms, a small television and a cooking area. 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. "Maybe you can tell her Maybe" he says. In October 2022, a documentary called "CryptoqueenThe OneCoin Scam" debuted at Mipcom Cannes. We don't know. '", 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. Bjorn received 7.69 million euros which were transferred from Hong Kong. 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. Who first introduced him to OneCoin then I recruit Georgia and I went see. Last time anyone saw or heard from Dr Ruja dr ruja ignatova daughter she recalls June 2016 36-year-old... 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