It's as glitzy as you would expect. On the run since 2017, Dr Ruja Ignat July 1, 2022 By Jamie Barlett. Beginning in . 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Since then, he has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering and fraud charges, and is due to be sentenced next month. Frantic calls and messages went unanswered. Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen. Bjorn received 7.69 million euros which were transferred from Hong Kong. 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. 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. 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. Documents leaked to the BBC say 4bn between August 2014 and March 2017. But there was something very important these investors didn't know. How a con man duped struggling farmers into a pigeon breeding scheme that had fraud written all over it. Her collaborators started getting arrested on securities and fraud charges and money laundering. Bjorn Bjercke is a blockchain expert and he was the first person who started speaking publicly against OneCoin. Investigative reporter Jamie Bartlett, host ofThe Missing Cryptoqueenpodcast, in conjunction with the BBC, initially flagged a tenuous link between the fraudster and the penthouse. 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. "OK Jen they don't want to disclose that kind of information, just in case something goes wrong where the blockchain is being held. Ruja Plamenova Ignatova (Bulgarian: , romanized:Rua Plamenova Ignatova; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian-born German citizen and convicted fraudster. Ruja Ignatova was born in Sofia but moved to Germany when she was 8 years old. ", I ask him why not. "I was thinking: 'What is my job going to be? But they used some of this cash to buy more OneCoin. She left with a tremendous amount of cash, FBI spokesman Michael Driscoll added. 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. Cryptocurrency as an idea was just entering the mainstream. Following her studies, she became a . There are also investors who feel guilty. 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. Then he got into network marketing, or multi-level marketing (MLM) as it is often known, and started making money. 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. In her downtime she would throw parties on her luxurious yacht The Davina. OneCoin is no longer operational, with the token unusable and the website inactive. There's a famous saying in journalism, "Follow the money." He introduced her to Bjorn Bjercke, the blockchain developer who said there was no blockchain. But then I recruit Georgia and Phil to start selling too, and I make a cut on their sales as well. All of them were "very up-tempo, full of beans, full of passion", she remembers. But the authorities all over the world have been slow to react, partly because the whole area of cryptocurrencies is relatively new. [13], In 2012, she was convicted of fraud in Germany in connection with her and her father Plamen Ignatov's acquisition of a company that shortly afterwards was declared bankrupt in dubious circumstances; she was given a suspended sentence of 14 months' imprisonment. Ruja Ignatova, the self-described "Cryptoqueen.". "I can't discuss that. The reason so many people are excited by Bitcoin is that it solves that problem. 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. Prestige property seller Knight Frank advertised the property but swiftly took the listing down after it emerged that Ignatova had links to it. 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. This is also where Dr Ruja's husband - or perhaps ex-husband - lives and works. There is a BBC Sounds podcast called "The Missing Cryptoqueen." Bjercke would get an apartment and a car - and an attractive annual salary of about 250,000. Some are divorced.". The documents include details of US authorities having a "high-placed confidential informant", OneCoin bank accounts receiving investor funds, and unsuccessful efforts by the UK's City of London Police to interview Ms Ignatova. This mushrooms very rapidly - 25 rounds of recruitment later and everyone in the UK would be selling vitamins. Over the next several weeks, Curry sent a stream of information about how cryptocurrencies work: links, articles, YouTube videos. She was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted in June 2022. According to the documents, the meeting was attended by the FBI, the US Department of Justice and the New York District Attorney. It seemed like easy money. Thousands of people were gathering in venues, all over the world, to see and hear her presentations. Nobody - not banks, not governments, or the person who invents it - is in charge or can change it. Facebook Previously, the property belonged to a company called Abbots House Penthouse Limited,. Amazingly, even after this, OneCoin continued to function - and people continued to invest in it. She can't bring herself to tell them the truth. Before long, she had invested 10,000 of her own money - and persuaded friends and family to invest 250,000 of theirs. It turned out to be a shouting match, but it would send McAdam's life in a new direction. 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. But to me it symbolises something else too. OneCoin was not a cryptocurrency and it did not have blockchain technology. In Europe, less money was invested in the first six months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016. We've received your submission. "You will find her," he said. Prudence is a nurse in a Kampala slum, who thought she could make more money selling OneCoin and set about recruiting new investors. "You're in at such an early stage and it's just going to go like Bitcoin. Europol said it was looking into the issue. He didn't get it, and in December 2017 he quit. A Maserati and Aston Martin are parked outside. The only way to exchange these OneCoins for any other currency was through an internal marketplaceOneCoin Exchange, known as xcoinx. Members could later exchange these educational packages, ranging from 100 euros to 118,000 euros, for OneCoins. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. I will double your coins, I will double your coins. Twitter Ruja Ignatova was added to the FBI's Ten Most. In 2020, it was announced that Jennifer McAdam will be portrayed by Kate Winslet in an upcoming Hollywood film about the OneCoin fraud. That meant that investors could no longer trade their OneCoins and retrieve their investments. Dr. Ruja Ignatova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 30, 1980. 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". At the age of 10, her family moved to Germany. People involved at the early stages have told him it was never supposed to be a billion-dollar scam. Bang!". Dr Ruja identified several of society's weak spots and exploited them. He points out that he spent millions buying OneCoin, possibly more than anyone else. It's hard to know how much money has been put into OneCoin. You can also see more on the next episode of BBC Click. Ruja Ignatova, or Dr. Ruja, was a prominent figure in the growing cryptocurrency market. No other law enforcement bodies in attendance would confirm how the information got out. "You've been planning, planning for something. McAdam started a Facebook support group for other defrauded victims of OneCoin. But besides loving books, he was also a master book thief. A postman thought he recognised the name, but couldn't be sure. He claims metadata on the files suggests she obtained the information via her own contacts in Bulgaria. In 2016, Ms. McAdam had been in bed due to a chronic illness and she was unable to work. He claimed to be a good Samaritan, someone who had studied OneCoin carefully and wanted to speak to people who had invested. [17], On 25 October 2017 Ignatova disappeared after being tipped off about increasing police investigations about OneCoin. OneCoins other co-founder, Sebastian Greenwood, also fled. Born on May 30, 1980, in Bulgaria, Ignatova moved to Germany with her family when she was 10 years old. 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. The self-styled cryptoqueen even posted a video one week after the birth of her daughter, thanking people for their support and gifts. Whether it's Bank of England notes and coins, shells, precious stones or matchsticks - all of which have historically been used as money - it only works when everyone trusts it. "British companies are the companies of choice," he comments. 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. Another tip he gives us is to find out where she has been on her yacht. 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 a pyramid scheme, and it's very illegal. I don't want those people I introduced into OneCoin to see me moving around. Blame is not easy to apportion. 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. You think, 'Wait a bit longer. Listen to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, with Jamie Bartlett and producer Georgia Catt, on BBC Sounds. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. No lights visible through the windows. In November of the same year, he pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and fraud. "If you have your money and it's taken away from you, life becomes stressful," she says. But we need to keep going, we needed to find the house. '", 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. She reportedly earned a PhD in private international law from the University of Constance and has a daughter who. A few weeks after our meeting Alan gets back in touch, with some amazing information. I am simply a concerned person who cannot tolerate injustice in any form. Maybe it's just a delay. Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'. It starts to get very very very scary, very very very fast." Igor Alberts, the MLM kingpin, said he'd heard she has Russian and Ukrainian passports and travels back and forth between Russia and Dubai. Police have warned that she has likely had plastic surgery to change her appearance, with hopes low that she would ever be caught. 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. "The problem is that when you create this company, no-one checks any of the information provided." They can easily kill me. The FBI added Dr. Ruja Ignatova, the so-called 'Cryptoqueen,' to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives. The book is called The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away With It. I sell a box to my friends, Georgia and Phil, and make a small cut. Mr Schneider denies obtaining the documents, which he says were passed to him on a USB memory stick by Ms Ignatova. She was entered into a Whatsapp group, with its own "leader" who disseminated information from the headquarters in Sofia. "Where's the support? "When you look at my clothes, they are disciplined," he says. 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 . Its working title is Fake! ', "I said: 'What? Today doors are locked. 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.. This is clearly a question for a professional, which is why Georgia and I went to see private investigator Alan McLean. Jennifer McAdam, a 52-year-old Scottish single parent and businesswoman who fell victim to OneCoin fraud commented that she was pleased the FBI had added Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Why have so many people continued to believe in OneCoin, despite all the evidence? Together with Daniel, Georgia and I travel south to meet his mother. A cryptocurrency start-up from Bulgaria was looking for a chief technical officer. Onecoin's Ruja Ignatova is a mysterious woman who has been on the run for over three years now. It told the BBC: "OneCoin verifiably fulfils all criteria of the definition of a crypto-currency." "When you talk about the amount of money that's been put into OneCoin of course there's people out there who are pissed off and would do anything to shut anyone like me up," says Bjorn Bjercke, the blockchain expert who discovered there was no blockchain, and started talking about it publicly. Ms Ignatova disappeared on 25 October 2017 after being tipped off about intensifying police investigations into her OneCoin cryptocurrency. London, June 11, 2016. The company went bankrupt shortly after acquisition under dubious circumstances. Sitting at her computer, the Glaswegian clicked on a link and joined a OneCoin webinar. Just as he was boarding his flight home, he was pounced on by FBI agents, arrested, and charged with fraud in connection with OneCoin. Find out here. ", "Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Leaders Of "OneCoin," A Multibillion-Dollar Pyramid Scheme Involving The Sale Of A Fraudulent Cryptocurrency", "BKA - Fahndung nach Personen - Ruja IGNATOVA", https://moneyweek.com/economy/people/605142/ruja-ignatova-profile-crooked-cryptoqueen, "The Outrageous Case of OneCoin, the Billion Dollar Scam Sold as a "Bitcoin Killer", "Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished", "OneCoin Took In Billions. This was the secret of OneCoin's success. "This is classic," he exclaims. "Well then prove it to me!" It suggests she is still alive, and there are documents out there somewhere which contain vital clues as to her recent whereabouts. Lots of money. We called the lawyer who is (or was) married to her, and he didn't want to talk. Even the most obscure entry or innocuous comment on a forum is usually saved somewhere, and with enough digging can be found. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. He clicks to see the company's filing history, but where you should see company accounts, there is nothing. This is notoriously difficult - go online and you'll find hundreds of different descriptions, some of them utterly baffling to the non-specialist. Several of the people Georgia and I interviewed spoke darkly about mysterious people and connections they didn't want to name. Author's note: I am not an expert in cryptocurrencies. 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 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. Barely a year later, she bamboozled billions and left it behind (not the money) - family included. Jen McAdam has a fiery Skype call with cryptocurrency enthusiast Tim Curry. There were limitations as to how many OneCoins could be exchanged for any other currency per day. Technically it was owned by a company called One Property. Reluctantly, she agreed to a conversation on Skype. The police files contain presentations made at an "Operation Satellite" Europol meeting in The Hague on 15 March 2017. That's the most important thing of all," he says. It's also notorious for exaggerated promises of high earnings and tough sales targets. He doesn't seem certain it's a good idea. Realizing that an arrest warrant was imminent and fearing that she could spend the rest of her life behind bars, Ruja decided to flee. 5 Nr. At the age of 10, her family moved to Germany. By March 2017, more than 3.5 billion had been invested in the OneCoin system. 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. Where's the help? 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 literally my legs just went, and I fell on the floor,'" she says. In general, people are tempted by the idea of making huge profits fast. Those events were packed and organized like rock concerts. [27][28], Ignatova was married to the German lawyer Bjorn Strehl, with whom she had a daughter in 2016.[2][29]. Read about our approach to external linking. When I ask him who might be behind the threats, he won't elaborate. James Richard Shinn was a book lover. She lives in a concrete house with a tin roof - five small rooms, a small television and a cooking area. And McAdam's leader prepared her carefully for conversations with OneCoin sceptics. It meant Ignatova was kept out of public records and land registry deeds until now. 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. I felt proud of her.". It's thought to be a key anti-corruption tool. Until this week, however, the OneCoin head office remained open for business - and people were continuing to promote the currency. Read about our approach to external linking. 16 months' suspended imprisonment for a previous case. 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. "We are concerned about the potential risk this poses to UK consumers.". By contrast, Jen McAdam says she bears a heavy burden of guilt. "No other company even came close," Alberts says. They, like almost everyone else involved, were convinced they were earning a fortune. 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. In May 2015, already a very successful MLM seller, Igor Alberts was invited to a OneCoin event in Dubai, where he met lots of people, all apparently making fortunes with this new currency. "Oh, hey presto, they haven't filed a person with significant control. OneCoin,. Far from putting an end to their financial worries, she and her friends and family had thrown a quarter of a million euros away. 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. He is now facing extradition to the US for his alleged role in the OneCoin fraud. She exploited the Cryptocurrency boom for a fortune and then disappeared without a trace . I pay 100 to start selling vitamin tablets directly to people. Igor Alberts, the MLM seller, also talks about the involvement of "very influential people". One week later McAdam bought a "tycoon" package, for 5,000. In fact, she had gone underground. This scam is estimated to be well over four billion dollars. (Source: Indias Magazine) The pair are blessed with one daughter. [20], Afterward, the North Rhine-Westphalia Police and German Federal Criminal Police Office announced that Ignatova is sought for fraud charges. Game over.". 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. 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. 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