We've received your submission. But in Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, it was the other way round. 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. She asks what news we have about OneCoin. "And in that sense it's cultic.". 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. "What was her lifestyle? Backstage at London's Wembley Arena, Dr. Ruja Ignatova was nervously pacing up and down, dressed, as usual, in a full-length ball gown. Answer 1 of 6: Hello out there. I've also been told by more than one person that it could be as much as 15bn. "I felt responsibility. Between August 2014 and March 2017 more than 4bn was invested in dozens of countries. Perhaps it would put him in an uncomfortable position. There, she recruited members to promote OneCoin and sell to their friends and relatives. In addition to losing their own money, they were the instigators for their loved ones to lose their investments as well. MLM is not illegal. OneCoins other co-founder, Sebastian Greenwood, also fled. Both companies were founded by Ignatova and Greenwood. There are also investors who feel guilty. Ruja Plamenova Ignatova ( Bulgarian: , romanized : Rua Plamenova Ignatova; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian -born German citizen and convicted fraudster. OneCoin,. A towel covers the front door, and a few metres away is her land, where she grows her own food and sells anything left over at the local market. Listen to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, with Jamie Bartlett and producer Georgia Catt, on BBC Sounds. Some feared she'd been killed or kidnapped by the banks, who - they'd been told - had most to fear from the cryptocurrency revolution. Did we get close to her? Then Its Leader Vanished", "BigCoin & BNA: The original OneCoin Ponzi points", "Co-founder of multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency pyramid scheme "OneCoin" pleads guilty | Internal Revenue Service", "Ruja Ignatova: Leaked police notes may have alerted FBI-wanted Cryptoqueen", "Krypto-Betrug mit OneCoin: Weiteres Verfahren und Durchsuchungen", "International - Betrug in Millionenhhe", "RED NOTICE: Ruja Ignatova, dubbed 'the Cryptoqueen', is #wanted by Germany @bka for fraud and money laundering. Mr Schneider denies obtaining the documents, which he says were passed to him on a USB memory stick by Ms Ignatova. It emerged during a money-laundering trial in. 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. Ignatova started to refer to herself as the Cryptoqueen. 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. By March 2017, more than 3.5 billion had been invested in the OneCoin system. They are now in what's called my downline. By the time the webinar had finished she had decided to invest 1,000. In 2014, 34-year-old Ignatova and Sebastian Greenwood, an expert in multi-level marketing, launched a cryptocurrency called OneCoin. Several OneCoin events took place in the UK after the FCA took down the warning, and money continued to be invested. Ruja Ignatova is wanted for her alleged participation in a large-scale fraud scheme. I haven't given her 100% full confirmation that it won't work. Lots of people were looking to get involved in this strange new opportunity. When Georgia and I called them ourselves to check, they confirmed it. The reason so many people are excited by Bitcoin is that it solves that problem. 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. He thought OneCoin would give cryptocurrencies a bad name, and he told McAdam bluntly that it was a scam - "the biggest scam in the [expletive] world". Ruja Ignatova, the self-described "Cryptoqueen.". It's also notorious for exaggerated promises of high earnings and tough sales targets. Every time a Bitcoin is sent from me to someone else, a record of that transaction goes into everyone's book. This platform was launched after many delays. [2][3][4] She is the subject of the 2019 BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen and the 2022 book of the same name. Like this one at Wembley Arena in London in 2016. We soak up the atmosphere, cheer the British contestant, and then leave. 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. The alleged murderer, Hristo Hristov, who is also Bulgarian, is currently serving time in a Dutch prison for drug trafficking. 2023 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. Ms Ignatova disappeared on 25 October 2017 after being tipped off about intensifying police investigations into her OneCoin cryptocurrency. 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. I pay 100 to start selling vitamin tablets directly to people. Ruja Ignatova celebrating her birthday with her husband and OneCoin members. The key point is that these special blockchain databases are what make cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin work. ", I ask him why not. It was a cryptocurrency company, and it had been running for a while - but it didn't have a blockchain. By contrast, Jen McAdam says she bears a heavy burden of guilt. Investors often told us that what drew them in initially was the fear that they would miss out on the next big thing. 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. (Her) lies were designed with one goal, to get everyday people all over the world to part with their hard-earned money.. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. The. He claimed to be a good Samaritan, someone who had studied OneCoin carefully and wanted to speak to people who had invested. [16] In 2014, she founded a pyramid scheme called OneCoin. Phil and Georgia both recruit two people, and then all four of them recruit two more, and so on. THE FBI has added a Bulgarian woman dubbed the 'Crypto Queen' to its infamous 10 most wanted list after she stole billions in the biggest scam EVER. 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. I had no clue that it could be false. Dr Ruja's genius was to take all of this and sell the idea to the masses. The Bulgarian woman, believed to be in her 40s, is wanted for her alleged. While in Waltenhofen, we learned that she had a German husband, a lawyer for the well-known firm, Linklaters. He tells me he's received death threats as a result of speaking out. 5 Nr. "This is supposed to mean that you can no longer use a British company to hide behind," he says, as he scrolls down the page. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. She would urge and convince simple people to invest in OneCoin and not be left out of the huge potential profits. Bishop Fred, we learned, is now one of the country's top promoters of OneCoin, though he says it's no longer promoted during church services. "You will find her," he said. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "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.' If it's true she was in these countries earlier this year, she probably has a fake identity. It is a tale of 'greed and folly' perhaps even more scandalous than Holmes' billion-dollar Theranos bust-up. Europol said it was looking into the issue. They can easily kill me. (And I, at the top, would be making a cut on all the sales. The narco-boss is said currently to reside in Dubai, having evaded Bulgarian authorities. 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. Blame is not easy to apportion. When you're dealing with a scam worth billions of euros, it's not unusual for shadowy groups to get involved. She started asking the leaders of her OneCoin group if there was a blockchain. She left with a tremendous amount of cash, FBI spokesman Michael Driscoll added. So we start unearthing previous addresses, known friends, old phone numbers, anything that could help us. He was arrested in March 2019 at LA Airport as he was about to board a flight to Bulgaria. "You are so lucky that you're seeing this webinar right now," she was told. He has denied obtaining the documents and said: "When the Bulgarians participated at certain Europol meetings, it only took hours for her to get a complete rundown and get the minutes of what was said in those meetings. No other law enforcement bodies in attendance would confirm how the information got out. Its working title is Fake! 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. 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. Greenwood was arrested in 2018. They'd read, with envy, the stories of people striking gold with Bitcoin and thought OneCoin was a second chance. We also learned that Dr Ruja had a daughter in late 2016, and that she remained very close to her. "OneCoins principals continue to operate from Bulgaria," according to Dr Levy. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. [20], Afterward, the North Rhine-Westphalia Police and German Federal Criminal Police Office announced that Ignatova is sought for fraud charges. The FCA said it had been up for long enough, but OneCoin promoters presented this as proof that the UK authorities considered OneCoin a legitimate investment. Then a few days later we received a call from a trusted source we cannot identify. Where's the help? He points out that he spent millions buying OneCoin, possibly more than anyone else. Fairly soon Igor Alberts was making more than 1m a month from OneCoin, which quickly became the biggest product in network marketing. As in other countries, OneCoin has spread here through networks of friends and families. She told the cheering crowd that OneCoin was on course to become the world's biggest cryptocurrency "for everyone to make payments everywhere". Not guilt," he replies. McAdam started a Facebook support group for other defrauded victims of OneCoin. [18] In 2019, her brother Konstantin Ignatov pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering in connection with the scheme. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. I don't want to be the person that breaks the news to Daniel's mother. Jen McAdam on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, The video of Dr Ruja at the Economist conference was what clinched it for Jen McAdam, Igor Alberts and Andreea Cimbala outside their house, Daniel, Prudence and Jamie with children in the poor area of Kampala where Prudence works as a nurse, Dr Ruja was renowned for expensive dresses and red lipstick, Dr Ruja posted a video of herself with her baby on social media, Dr Ruja comes on stage at Wembley to the song This Girl Is On Fire. Dr Ruja's genius was to recognise that established MLM sellers with huge downlines were the perfect vehicle to market her fake coin - a plan the FBI says she privately referred to as "the bitch of Wall Street, meets MLM". What are the things that I'm going to have to do for this company?'" But the motive of other people was simply being able to acquire a better life; people who worked long hours, people who did difficult physical labor, old people. 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. "In two years, nobody will speak about Bitcoin any more!" Why have so many people continued to believe in OneCoin, despite all the evidence? 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. 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.. 2023 BBC. "You've been planning, planning for something. How a con man duped struggling farmers into a pigeon breeding scheme that had fraud written all over it. But this is the first principle to grasp: money is only valuable because other people think it's valuable. But in January 2017 it was shut down permanently. "The problem is that when you create this company, no-one checks any of the information provided." "We gathered the teams together and we started to work like crazy," he says. It's easy as that.". Thousands of people were gathering in venues, all over the world, to see and hear her presentations. OneCoin is no longer operational, with the token unusable and the website inactive. "Where's the support? A few weeks after our meeting Alan gets back in touch, with some amazing information. 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. 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. That meant that investors could no longer trade their OneCoins and retrieve their investments. Missing Cryptoqueen joins FBI ten most wanted, Revealed: The Cryptoqueen's 13.5m London penthouse. I sell a box to my friends, Georgia and Phil, and make a small cut. Before long, she had invested 10,000 of her own money - and persuaded friends and family to invest 250,000 of theirs. His wife, Andreea Cimbala, nods along, adding that if he wakes up and puts on pink underwear, he sticks to pink as he chooses his shirt, trousers and jacket. 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. In October 2017, Ruja was scheduled to appear in a OneCoin promotional event in Lisbon, Portugal. So don't worry too much if you don't follow it either.) Ignatova was married to a German lawyer, with whom she had a daughter in 2016. "Oh, hey presto, they haven't filed a person with significant control. Reluctantly, she agreed to a conversation on Skype. Strehl, husband of one the biggest scammers Ruja, was invisible during the whole OneCoin saga. A court reporter was there to hear his testimony, and according to his account of the proceedings Ignatov appears to have implied that his sister had duped him with the same line the organisation put out to its investors - that OneCoin critics were "haters" who could not be believed. 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. 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. 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. Maybe it's just a delay. 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. Realizing that an arrest warrant was imminent and fearing that she could spend the rest of her life behind bars, Ruja decided to flee. Nobody - not banks, not governments, or the person who invents it - is in charge or can change it. But towards the end of the year Jen McAdam was contacted by a stranger on the internet. It was launched by two offshore companies: OneCoin Ltd. (based in Bulgaria and registered in Dubai) and OneLife Network Ltd. (registered in Belize). In an interconnected global economy, assets can simply vanish, and you end up chasing shadows. So much for following the money. Money can buy a lot of friends, and I would imagine shes taking advantage of that.. In court it was revealed that Ignatov signed a plea deal on 4 October, in which he pleaded guilty to several fraud charges. 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. He was an Italian immigrant whose investment scam resulted in people losing tens of millions of dollars. Doors opened. Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'. More folk are going to promote this. If it doesn't happen, life is hard.". In 2020, it was announced that Jennifer McAdam will be portrayed by Kate Winslet in an upcoming Hollywood film about the OneCoin fraud. 16 months' suspended imprisonment for a previous case. When investors became members promoting OneCoin, they were getting a percentage margin on the proceeds from the people they had introduced and persuaded to invest in the company. And Peragon was owned by another company called Artefix, which was owned by Ruja's mother, Veska. This is notoriously difficult - go online and you'll find hundreds of different descriptions, some of them utterly baffling to the non-specialist. Documents leaked to the BBC show that British people spent almost 30m on OneCoin in the first six months of 2016, 2m of it in a single week - and the rate of investment could have increased after the Wembley extravaganza. She was dressed, as usual, in an expensive. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. I've even heard that she might be in London. She watched excitedly on the OneCoin website as the value of her coins steadily rose. 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. Charles Ponzi is remembered for creating the Ponzi scheme. But it is controversial, because usually only a small number of people make all the money. 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. The fact that OneCoin was operating internationally also created difficulties for the authorities. Daniel took me and Georgia to meet Prudence, who first introduced him to 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. The Federal Criminal Police Office announced a 5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. "One Coin!" It's thought to be a key anti-corruption tool. I explain that this is probably beyond my abilities (apart from being illegal). "I'm somehow hiding myself. The stranger was Timothy Curry, a Bitcoin enthusiast and cryptocurrency advocate. ", 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. Her biggest aspiration was just to be rich. A cryptocurrency start-up from Bulgaria was looking for a chief technical officer. Ruja Plamenova Ignatova (Bulgarian: , romanized:Rua Plamenova Ignatova; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian-born German citizen and convicted fraudster. This was the secret of OneCoin's success. According to OneCoin, its main business was selling educational material for cryptocurrency trading. Igor Alberts is wearing black-and-gold everything. You told me it was a cryptocurrency company.'". Ms Ignatova, a 42-year-old Bulgaria-born German national, disappeared on 25 October 2017 after being tipped-off about intensifying police investigations into her Sofia-based scam. Jen McAdam has a fiery Skype call with cryptocurrency enthusiast Tim Curry. Then we started looking at some old photos of Ruja, and spotted one friend who appeared with her all the way back to 2011. When Georgia and I visited Sofia a month later, Dr Ruja's personal mansion appeared to be locked up and empty, but the OneCoin office gave every appearance of being a busy workplace. But earlier this month, Ignatova reportedly came out of the woodwork to claim one of her properties. The book is called The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away With It. Less than a year later, the warning was removed from the website. She lives in a concrete house with a tin roof - five small rooms, a small television and a cooking area. That's the most important thing of all," he says. Far from putting an end to their financial worries, she and her friends and family had thrown a quarter of a million euros away. [14][15], In 2013, she was involved with a multi-level marketing scam called BigCoin. I felt proud of her.". In fact, OneCoins were entirely worthless, he said, per CNN. 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. Just as he was boarding his flight home, he was pounced on by FBI agents, arrested, and charged with fraud in connection with OneCoin. 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. We will be there for a week and wanted to take various day trips as well as tour the actual city. But there was something wrong. The promoters said it was the larger packages that were really life-changing. Do you know how they do so? [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. "I've been telling her it's changing. "You must dig deeper.". Aliases: Dr. Ruja Ignatova, Ruja Plamenova Ignatova, Ruja P. Ignatova, "CryptoQueen" Date(s) . ), 'Hun, this could be your opportunity to get rich'. ", "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. Ignatova was a convincing speaker. At one, in July 2017, the American pop star Bebe Rexha performed a private set. So it seems Ruja is still alive, and is able to visit a European capital without fearing arrest. After that, she vanished and remains missing. Founded and led by Dr Ruja Ignatova, a Bulgarian law PHD graduate and businesswoman, it grew quickly, often driven by hyperbolic public events. To explain this, I need first to explain briefly how a cryptocurrency actually works. In June 2022, she was added to the FBI's 10 most wanted list. 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. She had been impressed by Ruja and the upward trend in the price of OneCoin without the fluctuations other cryptocurrencies usually have. Prudence is a nurse in a Kampala slum, who thought she could make more money selling OneCoin and set about recruiting new investors. 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