But we were still surprised when, during our internet searches, Frankfurt started appearing over and over again. 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. ", 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. BBC News Ruja Ignatova, also known as the "missing Cryptoqueen", has been placed on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list. Prestige property seller Knight Frank advertised the property but swiftly took the listing down after it emerged that Ignatova had links to it. The police files contain presentations made at an "Operation Satellite" Europol meeting in The Hague on 15 March 2017. 2023 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. 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. Even Google - 'Don't listen to Google!'" After Dr Ruja's non-appearance in Lisbon, a point came when Igor Alberts, like Jen McAdam, asked to see evidence of the blockchain. So don't worry too much if you don't follow it either.) Finding people is his speciality, and there is one thing above all he says we should focus on. 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. 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.". Dr Ruja herself made a powerful impression too, with her "princess's dresses" and her vision of a financial revolution. It took McAdam three months to go through it all, but questions were starting to form. [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. In January 2022, police searched apartments and offices in Weilburg, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt am Main, Bad Homburg, Neu-Isenburg and Vaihingen. Ignatova founded Onecoin in concert with Sebastian Greenwood and her brother, Konstantin Ignatov. So much for following the money. It's no surprise, then, that OneCoin's corporate structure is incredibly complicated. (And I, at the top, would be making a cut on all the sales. 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.". Dr Ruja's genius was to take all of this and sell the idea to the masses. Ruja Ignatova was born in Sofia but moved to Germany when she was 8 years old. 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. 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/. "You must dig deeper.". So we start unearthing previous addresses, known friends, old phone numbers, anything that could help us. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Up to 90 years for the Ponzi scheme. Authorities say she may have. She can't bring herself to tell them the truth. 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. It's hard to know how much money has been put into OneCoin. Author's note: I am not an expert in cryptocurrencies. It's hard to say.". He tells me he's received death threats as a result of speaking out. He clicks to see the company's filing history, but where you should see company accounts, there is nothing. She reportedly earned a PhD in private international law from the University of Constance and has a daughter who. Between August 2014 and March 2017 more than 4bn was invested in dozens of countries. [2][7], Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, in 1980,[8] to a Romani family. Doors opened. But though she has stopped recruiting, many others haven't, and there are still plenty of interested buyers, she says. In general, people are tempted by the idea of making huge profits fast. If it doesn't happen, life is hard.". The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. It suggests she is still alive, and there are documents out there somewhere which contain vital clues as to her recent whereabouts. Now this link has been confirmed Bartlett said it could be a breakthrough. Europol told the BBC it was looking into the matter, adding: "This complex scenario with many stakeholders makes it difficult to assess where and how such an incident might have occurred.". Ruja Ignatova is wanted for her alleged participation in a large-scale fraud scheme. It's as glitzy as you would expect. 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. She would have known that we were looking for her, he added, and she would have laughed at us. 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. Ruja Ignatova, the self-described "Cryptoqueen.". 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. "Particularly if you have invested something, not only money, but belief, reputation, intelligence. In the FBI's' 72-year history, Ruja is only the 11th woman to appear on this list. Will she get her money back? The stranger was Timothy Curry, a Bitcoin enthusiast and cryptocurrency advocate. 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 Onecoin Ponzi was a multi-level-marketing (MLM) venture that featured packages that were ostensibly tethered to a blockchain network. He introduced her to Bjorn Bjercke, the blockchain developer who said there was no blockchain. Then a few days later we received a call from a trusted source we cannot identify. She exploited the Cryptocurrency boom for a fortune and then disappeared without a trace . Igor Alberts, the MLM kingpin, said he'd heard she has Russian and Ukrainian passports and travels back and forth between Russia and Dubai. The self-styled crypto queen, however, is now wanted by law enforcement for her involvement in the OneCoin scheme. But when it comes to someone trying to find them - whether that's a journalist or a police officer - they are invisible.". Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Twitter Ruja Ignatova was added to the FBI's Ten Most. The power of the woman - well done! Its working title is Fake! "If they still thought we were a fraudulent company, then guess what, that warning's not removed. 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 They keep postponing this. Ruja Ignatova, with the help of a partner, created a crypto currency that was a scam. "I did the calculation how many coins we needed to become the richest person on the planet," Igor says. "We've been unable to identify UK-based assets, which could be used to compensate UK investors. Reluctantly, she agreed to a conversation on Skype. In June 2022, she was added to the FBI's 10 most wanted list. she shouted. OneCoin has always denied wrongdoing. Dr. Ruja Ignatova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 30, 1980. She studied at Oxford University and received a PhD in International Law from the University of Constance. Barely a year later, she bamboozled billions and left it behind (not the money) - family included. 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. 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. That meant that investors could no longer trade their OneCoins and retrieve their investments. But it is controversial, because usually only a small number of people make all the money. 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. 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. "We are very proud of this in this country," he says. Dr Ignatova pulled off one of the world's biggest ever scams, based on her new cryptocurrency called 'OneCoin', before disappearing in 2017. The UK began to insist recently that companies must enter the name of the person with "significant control" - the real owner. What's he waiting for? Today doors are locked. 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. The head office in Sofia, where she was such an imposing presence, didn't know anything either. 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. Bjorn received 7.69 million euros which were transferred from Hong Kong. The listing of a property in the heart of London has brought a notorious cryptocurrency fugitive who ran a $4 billion Ponzi scheme out of the woodwork. Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is one of five financial routes Ignatova has known connections to. "You can never be blamed for believing in something. Aliases: Dr. Ruja Ignatova, Ruja Plamenova Ignatova, Ruja P. Ignatova, "CryptoQueen" Date(s) . Listen to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, with Jamie Bartlett and producer Georgia Catt, on BBC Sounds. This scam is estimated to be well over four billion dollars. Technically it was owned by a company called One Property. 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. I don't want those people I introduced into OneCoin to see me moving around. Dr Ruja identified several of society's weak spots and exploited them. I am simply a concerned person who cannot tolerate injustice in any form. He was initially contracted by OneCoin in order to develop their blockchain for them. In 2016, Ms. McAdam had been in bed due to a chronic illness and she was unable to work. The agent replied that this was correct. "British companies are the companies of choice," he comments. She had no computer or smartphone, to do her own research. 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. 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. It's easy as that.". The police documents were passed to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast by Frank Schneider, a former spy and trusted adviser to Ms Ignatova. It's mathematic. It's going to go bigger. The nature of MLM networks - where people often recruit others who are close to them - creates a blurred sense of responsibility. 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. Strehl, husband of one the biggest scammers Ruja, was invisible during the whole OneCoin saga. 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. And that friend was visiting the richest neighbourhood in Frankfurt in summer this year. Where's the help? "I felt responsibility. They are now in what's called my downline. 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. Cryptocurrency as an idea was just entering the mainstream. All over the world, people were already investing their savings into OneCoin, hoping to be part of this new revolution. 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. The key point is that these special blockchain databases are what make cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin work. A postman thought he recognised the name, but couldn't be sure. Others told us she was dead - which does remain a possibility. [9] Ignatova emigrated to Germany with her family when she was ten years old, and spent part of her childhood in Schramberg in the state of Baden-Wrttemberg. She was dressed, as usual, in an expensive. "Go back to her life before OneCoin. She tried to close it down, he says, but the dark forces wouldn't let her. Both companies were founded by Ignatova and Greenwood. 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? Igor returned with a new mission - and gave new instructions to all the salespeople in his downline: stop whatever you're doing, and start selling OneCoin. It depends upon a special type of database called a blockchain, which is like a huge book - one that Bitcoin owners have independent but identical copies of. He points out that he spent millions buying OneCoin, possibly more than anyone else. On the same day he was arrested, the FBI declared OneCoin a fraudulent currency. 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. She vanished, he said, because she was afraid that somebody close to her was going to give her up to the FBI. It is believed that more than a million investors from 175 countries were defrauded into investing in OneCoin. Files seen by the BBC from Europol meetings suggest the FBI-wanted fugitive knew about efforts to arrest her months before she vanished. 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 can listen to episodes here. Investors often told us that what drew them in initially was the fear that they would miss out on the next big thing. They are desperate to get their hands on the conwoman, offering a $100,000 reward for intel that ultimately leads to her arrest. 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. Dr Ruja had vanished. 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. Investors might not have understood the technology, but they could see her talking to huge audiences, or at the Economist conference. 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. "And in that sense it's cultic.". "I'm devastated for all the UK victims," Jen McAdam told me, when she heard the news. Why did the FCA drop its Cryptoqueen scam warning? 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. "The problem is that when you create this company, no-one checks any of the information provided." So she decided to invest her savings and the money from her inheritance from her father into OneCoin. 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]. She knew there would be enough people either desperate enough, or greedy enough, or confused enough to take a bet on OneCoin. But there was something very important these investors didn't know. He is now facing extradition to the US for his alleged role in the OneCoin fraud. A book about this case was written by British investigative reporter Jamie Bartlett and published in June 2022. We called the lawyer who is (or was) married to her, and he didn't want to talk. I sell a box to my friends, Georgia and Phil, and make a small cut. 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. They didn't feel they were taking a risk, because they trusted Ruja and her education and work experience. Do you know who to complain to when you are a victim of a Ponzi scheme or pyramid scheme? Another tip he gives us is to find out where she has been on her yacht. It was easy: you purchased OneCoin tokens, and these then generated coins, which went into your account. Bulgarian-born German citizen Ruja Ignatova, FBIs list of the 10 most-wanted fugitives. You can also see more on the next episode of BBC Click. From the very beginning, she was a gifted child and always at the top of her class. "Look, nothing has happened. Frankfurt probably isn't the only place she goes - it might be one of several places, including perhaps Dubai and Russia. No lights visible through the windows. 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. "We gathered the teams together and we started to work like crazy," he says. "We made in our first month almost 90,000 out of nothing. "What's the name of the company?" "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. 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. The manager of the database could go in and change it at will. But earlier this month, Ignatova reportedly came out of the woodwork to claim one of her properties. Ruja Ignatova celebrating her birthday with her husband and OneCoin members. She was entered into a Whatsapp group, with its own "leader" who disseminated information from the headquarters in Sofia. Maybe 1,000 wasn't enough? [16] In 2014, she founded a pyramid scheme called OneCoin. Prudence is a nurse in a Kampala slum, who thought she could make more money selling OneCoin and set about recruiting new investors. He doesn't seem certain it's a good idea. Its understood Ignatova purchased the property under a company name, but a new rule means that the beneficiary of said company must also be named in full. In August this year, the City of London police ended a two-year investigation into OneCoin. Lots of people were looking to get involved in this strange new opportunity. The degrees are genuine. OneCoin, Dr Ruja told the Wembley audience, was the "Bitcoin Killer". "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.' However, in October 2017, the scammer completely vanished as authorities circled and she hasnt been seen since. Europol said it was looking into the issue. [14][15], In 2013, she was involved with a multi-level marketing scam called BigCoin. Then he got into network marketing, or multi-level marketing (MLM) as it is often known, and started making money. It was launched by two offshore companies: OneCoin Ltd. (based in Bulgaria and registered in Dubai) and OneLife Network Ltd. (registered in Belize). From Pakistan to Brazil, from Hong Kong to Norway, from Canada to Yemen even Palestine. Read about our approach to external linking. You've heard of Google, but there are several other search engines that specialise in this. "In my opinion, for what it's worth, she's moving around the Mediterranean," he says. Igor Alberts is wearing black-and-gold everything. We also learned that Dr Ruja had a daughter in late 2016, and that she remained very close to her. "We believe consumers should be wary of dealing with OneCoin," it said. "If I knew what I would have to go through, I would have never blown the whistle. A small beaten down van parked in front and was filled with various office equipment and supplies. DeSantis won't say he's running. His mother had doubts, but he persuaded her to put the money into OneCoin instead. She now runs Whatsapp support groups for OneCoin investors who realise they have been swindled. In Europe, less money was invested in the first six months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016. 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. I ask if he felt guilty, for having sold so many people a coin that didn't exist, and for having made so much money in the process. The daughter, we were informed, might be in Frankfurt. Greatly feared for his use of violence, Silas Jayne operated in the very dark underworld of the champion horse business. We've received your submission. It starts to get very very very scary, very very very fast." "You can still use them to buy things, you can still use them to buy political influence and nice houses and yachts. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. I've also been told by more than one person that it could be as much as 15bn. Founded and led by Dr Ruja Ignatova, a Bulgarian law PHD graduate and businesswoman, it grew quickly, often driven by hyperbolic public events. He didn't get it, and in December 2017 he quit. Another lead comes our way when we pay a visit to a bizarre OneCoin beauty pageant in Bucharest. She is now on the FBIs list of the 10 most-wanted fugitives and is the only woman currently on the hit list. This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 21:13. "If you have your money and it's taken away from you, life becomes stressful," she says. 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". Yet a typical recruiting event would include no education, but plenty of discussion about investing in cryptocurrency. According to the report, Ignatova was murdered aboard a yacht in the Ionian Sea, and her body was dismembered and cast overboard. It is a tale of 'greed and folly' perhaps even more scandalous than Holmes' billion-dollar Theranos bust-up. Oliver describes this kind of dizzying arrangement as "improbably standard". She was dressed, as usual, in an expensive. 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. 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. "In two years, nobody will speak about Bitcoin any more!" 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. Listen to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast on BBC Sounds - the search for Dr Ruja Ignatova continues, with a new episode about the police leak out on 19 October. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. When Georgia and I called them ourselves to check, they confirmed it. As the money started drying up in Europe, promoters turned more and more to countries like Uganda. This is also where Dr Ruja's husband - or perhaps ex-husband - lives and works. The alleged murderer, Hristo Hristov, who is also Bulgarian, is currently serving time in a Dutch prison for drug trafficking. OneCoin was a familiar scam with a digital twist - a new and hugely successful take on the old pyramid scheme. Then we started looking at some old photos of Ruja, and spotted one friend who appeared with her all the way back to 2011. 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