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. It turned out to be a shouting match, but it would send McAdam's life in a new direction. In this legal case, it is claimed that Ignatova acquired about 230,000 bitcoins, the largest known transaction for bitcoins, worth $48.5 million, from an Emirati royal in 2015. And literally my legs just went, and I fell on the floor,'" she says. This was the secret of OneCoin's success. 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. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. In fact, OneCoins were entirely worthless, he said, per CNN. Some feared she'd been killed or kidnapped by the banks, who - they'd been told - had most to fear from the cryptocurrency revolution. But when the day came, Dr Ruja - who was famously punctual - didn't show up. As the money started drying up in Europe, promoters turned more and more to countries like Uganda. Strehl, husband of one the biggest scammers Ruja, was invisible during the whole OneCoin saga. Europol said it was looking into the issue. We called the lawyer who is (or was) married to her, and he didn't want to talk. Ruja Plamenova Ignatova ( Bulgarian: , romanized : Rua Plamenova Ignatova; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian -born German citizen and convicted fraudster. I show his results to Bullough, who immediately notices how many British companies there are. 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. 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. In January 2022, police searched apartments and offices in Weilburg, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt am Main, Bad Homburg, Neu-Isenburg and Vaihingen. Bjercke would get an apartment and a car - and an attractive annual salary of about 250,000. Armed with a microphone and several photographs of Dr Ruja, we headed off to Frankfurt and searched old addresses and gated neighbourhoods said to be the most expensive in Germany. "We gathered the teams together and we started to work like crazy," he says. Oliver describes this kind of dizzying arrangement as "improbably standard". It is believed that more than a million investors from 175 countries were defrauded into investing in OneCoin. Dr Ruja's genius was to take all of this and sell the idea to the masses. Here's an example: Ruja bought a very large property in central Sofia. Mr Schneider denies obtaining the documents, which he says were passed to him on a USB memory stick by Ms Ignatova. This is clearly a question for a professional, which is why Georgia and I went to see private investigator Alan McLean. She had got hold of a "big passport", he said, and asked him to get her plane tickets to Vienna, then Athens. 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. All over the world, people were already investing their savings into OneCoin, hoping to be part of this new revolution. Finding people is his speciality, and there is one thing above all he says we should focus on. According to the BBC in an article dated July 2, 2022, Ignatova stashed millions of dollars in the rival Bitcoin before disappearing in 2017. A few weeks after our meeting Alan gets back in touch, with some amazing information. He was arrested in March 2019 at LA Airport as he was about to board a flight to Bulgaria. 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. But earlier this month, Ignatova reportedly came out of the woodwork to claim one of her properties. ", I ask him why not. 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. The Onecoin Ponzi was a multi-level-marketing (MLM) venture that featured packages that were ostensibly tethered to a blockchain network. 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]. Ignatovas brother, Konstantin Ignatova, took over the operation after she fled. She would have known that we were looking for her, he added, and she would have laughed at us. And every item of clothing is Dolce and Gabbana. Technically it was owned by a company called One Property. "If they still thought we were a fraudulent company, then guess what, that warning's not removed. I explain that this is probably beyond my abilities (apart from being illegal). It seemed like easy money. But we need to keep going, we needed to find the house. In 2014, 34-year-old Ignatova and Sebastian Greenwood, an expert in multi-level marketing, launched a cryptocurrency called OneCoin. The company went bankrupt shortly after its acquisition. Bjorn received 7.69 million euros which were transferred from Hong Kong. [11][failed verification] In 2005, she earned a PhD in private international law from the University of Constance in Germany with the dissertation Art. It represents the dark side of rapid technological change - the way that every new technology creates amazing new opportunities and possibilities for people who understand it, but also the chance to exploit the people who don't. No other law enforcement bodies in attendance would confirm how the information got out. It wasn't a place we'd previously thought of looking. In her downtime she would throw parties on her luxurious yacht The Davina. Founded and led by Dr Ruja Ignatova, a Bulgarian law PHD graduate and businesswoman, it grew quickly, often driven by hyperbolic public events. It's easy as that.". They have persuaded their friends and families to invest in OneCoin. After that, she vanished and remains missing. "She was on her way. [2][7], Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, in 1980,[8] to a Romani family. Reluctantly, she agreed to a conversation on Skype. "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. Documents leaked to the BBC say 4bn between August 2014 and March 2017. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 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. In addition to losing their own money, they were the instigators for their loved ones to lose their investments as well. In general, people are tempted by the idea of making huge profits fast. But besides loving books, he was also a master book thief. The documents show attendees from Bulgaria's Interior Ministry at the March 2017 Europol meeting. Around the same time, the US authorities charged Dr Ruja in absentia for wire fraud, security fraud and money laundering. 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. "One Coin!" Nobody knew why she wasn't there," recalls one delegate. Prudence is a nurse in a Kampala slum, who thought she could make more money selling OneCoin and set about recruiting new investors. MLM is not illegal. 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. 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. Blame is not easy to apportion. Ignatovas associates havent been as lucky. We already knew that Dr Ruja spent some of her childhood in Schramberg, southern Germany. But when it comes to someone trying to find them - whether that's a journalist or a police officer - they are invisible.". A reward of $100,000 is offered by the FBI for information leading to her arrest. And if you get in early, there's the chance to make a fortune. 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. But there was something very important these investors didn't know. But they have always failed because no-one could trust them. That I don't know what they're thinking. 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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. She left with a tremendous amount of cash, FBI spokesman Michael Driscoll added. "In two years, nobody will speak about Bitcoin any more!" Together with Daniel, Georgia and I travel south to meet his mother. "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.". 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. "OneCoins principals continue to operate from Bulgaria," according to Dr Levy. Yet a typical recruiting event would include no education, but plenty of discussion about investing in cryptocurrency. He introduced her to Bjorn Bjercke, the blockchain developer who said there was no blockchain. Previously, the property belonged to a company called Abbots House Penthouse Limited, based in Guernsey, a well-known tax haven with very little government oversight. He already had 400,000 shillings in savings, and to raise the rest he returned from the capital, Kampala, to his family home, took three goats raised by his younger brothers, and sold them. [5][6], Since 2017, Ignatova has been on the run from various international law enforcement agencies. Alberts was brought up in a poor neighbourhood. 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. "British companies are the companies of choice," he comments. Every time a Bitcoin is sent from me to someone else, a record of that transaction goes into everyone's book. He was initially contracted by OneCoin in order to develop their blockchain for them. "You are so lucky that you're seeing this webinar right now," she was told. Dr Ruja herself made a powerful impression too, with her "princess's dresses" and her vision of a financial revolution. 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. No lights visible through the windows. Lots of people were looking to get involved in this strange new opportunity. "No other company even came close," Alberts says. From Pakistan to Brazil, from Hong Kong to Norway, from Canada to Yemen even Palestine. Some are hiding. The problem, he explains, is that following the money isn't as easy as it sounds, because criminals structure their companies and bank accounts in such a way that their assets seem to disappear. 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"You've been planning, planning for something. 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. "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.' By March 2017, more than 3.5 billion had been invested in the OneCoin system. The stranger was Timothy Curry, a Bitcoin enthusiast and cryptocurrency advocate. Less than a year later, the warning was removed from the website. But to me it symbolises something else too. The reason so many people are excited by Bitcoin is that it solves that problem. The narco-boss is said currently to reside in Dubai, having evaded Bulgarian authorities. 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 . 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. She never appeared. She had been impressed by Ruja and the upward trend in the price of OneCoin without the fluctuations other cryptocurrencies usually have. The smallest package cost 140, but they went all the way up to 118,000. Others told us she was dead - which does remain a possibility. Those events were packed and organized like rock concerts. (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. "I can't discuss that. Since then, he has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering and fraud charges, and is due to be sentenced next month. (Her) lies were designed with one goal, to get everyday people all over the world to part with their hard-earned money.. "You will find her," he said. 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. [27][28], Ignatova was married to the German lawyer Bjorn Strehl, with whom she had a daughter in 2016.[2][29]. But towards the end of the year Jen McAdam was contacted by a stranger on the internet. Why did the FCA drop its Cryptoqueen scam warning? "Some of their kids are at home sitting without going to school - some don't have anywhere to sleep. [12] She reportedly has also worked for McKinsey & Company. There is a BBC Sounds podcast called "The Missing Cryptoqueen." "You can still use them to buy things, you can still use them to buy political influence and nice houses and yachts. As a result, lawyers representing Ignatova made a formal claim on the property, listing her as the apartments beneficial owner in a filing with the UKs financial regulator. 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". Dr Ruja identified several of society's weak spots and exploited them. Phil and Georgia both recruit two people, and then all four of them recruit two more, and so on. "When you look at my clothes, they are disciplined," he says. "What was her lifestyle? Perhaps it would put him in an uncomfortable position. Some are running because they got loans from a bank. July 1, 2022 By Jamie Barlett. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. You've heard of Google, but there are several other search engines that specialise in this. "Acting on behalf of investors and creditors of OneCoin," Levy described it as one of the largest and most successful financial pyramids in history, seeking an investigation of misfeasance by the Bulgarian government for taking no steps to seize assets from OneCoin including real estate, bank accounts, and 230,000 Bitcoins.. The UK began to insist recently that companies must enter the name of the person with "significant control" - the real owner. 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. 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. She vanished, he said, because she was afraid that somebody close to her was going to give her up to the FBI. How a con man duped struggling farmers into a pigeon breeding scheme that had fraud written all over it. Beginning in . 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. 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. One of the main OneCoin offices in Kampala is attached to a church. 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 was a Ponzi scheme. They were simply recording their transactions internally. Then a few days later we received a call from a trusted source we cannot identify. [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. The key point is that these special blockchain databases are what make cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin work. There have been several alleged sightings of her, and it is believed that she could be travelling in the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and Dubai. Everything is meant to be transparent - the website contains the details of every company in the UK. "So we need you to build a blockchain," he went on. 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. BBC News Ruja Ignatova, also known as the "missing Cryptoqueen", has been placed on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list. People in villages trust people from the city, Prudence tells us. Maybe 1,000 wasn't enough? 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. From that amount, he had collected $50 million in fees. She was condemned to 14 months suspended jail sentence. It was easy: you purchased OneCoin tokens, and these then generated coins, which went into your account. So we start unearthing previous addresses, known friends, old phone numbers, anything that could help us. Following her studies, she became a consultant for McKinsey and Co. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. 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. 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. 2023 BBC. They are now in what's called my downline. Unlike Ignatova, however, he didnt stay free for very long. We should try to get the tracker off it, he says, and he doesn't appear to be joking. "In my opinion, for what it's worth, she's moving around the Mediterranean," he says. The 42-year-old Bulgarian-born woman is wanted for her alleged role in running a cryptocurrency scam known as OneCoin. (Source: Indias Magazine) The pair are blessed with one daughter. In 2020, it was announced that Jennifer McAdam will be portrayed by Kate Winslet in an upcoming Hollywood film about the OneCoin fraud. It's going to go bigger. Several of the people Georgia and I interviewed spoke darkly about mysterious people and connections they didn't want to name. "One Life!" There are also investors who feel guilty. This proved to be fraudulent and she was sentenced to 14 months suspended jail sentence. Another lead comes our way when we pay a visit to a bizarre OneCoin beauty pageant in Bucharest. [25] The FBI followed up with an episode of its podcast and YouTube series Inside the FBI devoted to Ignatova and the OneCoin case. Ruja Ignatova was born in Sofia but moved to Germany when she was 8 years old. While in Waltenhofen, we learned that she had a German husband, a lawyer for the well-known firm, Linklaters. From either Greece or Romania Dr Ruja could be extradited to the US. So don't worry too much if you don't follow it either.) But it seems it's not just the promise of riches that keeps people believing. A postman thought he recognised the name, but couldn't be sure. So it's our blockchain technology, a SQL server with a database.". He takes the first one on the list and looks it up on the Companies House website. Frankfurt probably isn't the only place she goes - it might be one of several places, including perhaps Dubai and Russia. Twitter Ruja Ignatova was added to the FBI's Ten Most. In 2012, she was convicted of fraud in Germany in connection with the acquisition of a steel company obtained by Ruja and her father. The nature of MLM networks - where people often recruit others who are close to them - creates a blurred sense of responsibility. Igor Alberts, the MLM kingpin, said he'd heard she has Russian and Ukrainian passports and travels back and forth between Russia and Dubai. His mother had doubts, but he persuaded her to put the money into OneCoin instead. It starts to get very very very scary, very very very fast." Find out here. 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. A cryptocurrency start-up from Bulgaria was looking for a chief technical officer. "What's the name of the company?" The daughter, we were informed, might be in Frankfurt. [14][15], In 2013, she was involved with a multi-level marketing scam called BigCoin. Looking to get ideas for places to take our 3 year old while in Frankfurt. So much for following the money. Ignatova was a convincing speaker. asked Bjercke. Just as he was boarding his flight home, he was pounced on by FBI agents, arrested, and charged with fraud in connection with OneCoin. "If you have your money and it's taken away from you, life becomes stressful," she says. Investors might not have understood the technology, but they could see her talking to huge audiences, or at the Economist conference. A book about this case was written by British investigative reporter Jamie Bartlett and published in June 2022. Answer 1 of 6: Hello out there. From the very beginning, she was a gifted child and always at the top of her class. At one, in July 2017, the American pop star Bebe Rexha performed a private set. Igor Alberts is wearing black-and-gold everything. Ruja Ignatova, or Dr. Ruja, was a prominent figure in the growing cryptocurrency market. And even then, the question remained, where had she gone next? 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.". The US lawyer prosecuting Ignatova, Damian Williams, released a damning statement last month where he said her crypto tokens were useless. "Maybe you can tell her Maybe" he says. 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.". 2023 BBC. 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. she replied, sharply. They were shown photographs of her numerous degrees, and copies of Forbes magazine with her portrait on the front cover. They can easily kill me. The force has provided assistance to foreign law enforcement partners in respect of their investigations concerning OneCoin personnel and will continue to do this. Even Google - 'Don't listen to Google!'" 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. That was her last known location. He claims he has made 100m over the last 30 years. For a long time, people have tried to create a form of digital money independent of state-backed currencies. The power of the woman - well done! Ruja Ignatova is wanted for her alleged participation in a large-scale fraud scheme. He claimed to be a good Samaritan, someone who had studied OneCoin carefully and wanted to speak to people who had invested. Ruja Ignatova and her business partner Sebastian Greenwood conned their clients out of $4 Billion. She told the cheering crowd that OneCoin was on course to become the world's biggest cryptocurrency "for everyone to make payments everywhere". Backstage at London's Wembley Arena, Dr. Ruja Ignatova was nervously pacing up and down, dressed, as usual, in a full-length ball gown. I didn't even know what is a blockchain What doubt can I have?". 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. They don't care! In fact, she had gone underground. 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.". "You can never be blamed for believing in something. "Where's the support? Not guilt," he replies. 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