Bulgarian government petitioned over OneCoin inaction
An attorney representing several individuals with claims against OneCoin, has petitioned the Bulgarian government.
Jonathan Levy is based out of Europe and represents individuals in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Canada and the Bahamas.
Levy’s November 16th petition is addressed to Bulgaria’s Office of the Constitutional Ombudsman.
The petition requests the Bulgarian government take action on:
1. Termination of OneCoin’s open and public operation in Bulgaria that continues to victimize investors worldwide.
2. Assistance in obtaining an accounting of Bulgarian controlled OneCoin assets consisting of 230,000 Bitcoins, jewelry, yachts, cars including a Rolls Royce, a Bentley, a Porsche, and an armored Lexus, banks accounts, jewelry, luxury goods, precious metals, cash, livestock including thoroughbred horses, investments, and real estate in order to determine if they are still in the possession of the Ignatova and their proxies or have been seized by the Bulgarian government.
3. The establishment of a government liaison to fulfill the obligations of the Bulgarian government to OneCoin investors under Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and EU Council Directive 2004/80/EC of 29 April 2004 relating to compensation to of crime victims.
4. Establishment of a monetary reward of up to €1 billion Euros to be paid from up to 10% of OneCoin assets recovered to encourage associates of OneCoin to step forward with information, especially in regard to the 230,000 Bitcoins in the possession of Ruja Ignatova or her proxies currently valued at over €12 billion.
5. Reimbursement of Petitioner’s legal expenses.
Levy’s petition requests primarily rely on Article 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Victims of crime should be recognized as the persons wronged by the offender, protected against repeat victimization, granted access to justice, and enabled to participate in criminal proceedings.
Bulgarian law contains similar provisions.
The victims of OneCoin have received no justice from Bulgaria which seemingly protects and enables OneCoin to retain its assets and continue to operate despite being the most notorious criminal organization of the 21st Century.
Other EU Directives relied on include:
- 2012/29/EU (2012) – minimum standards in member states on the rights, support, and protection of victims of crime
- 2004/80/EC (2004) – compensation of crime victims
and requires Bulgaria pay compensation to victims of violent crimes committed in its territory
Levy closes his petition by stating he
has no logical explanation as to why or how OneCoin and its principal parties are still headquartered, operating, and sheltered on the territory of Bulgaria despite being exposed as a violent criminal organization involved with funding of terrorism and organized crime.
The amount of victim assets unrecovered is astounding and can only be explained by deliberate misfeasance by the Bulgarian authorities responsible for victim’s rights.
This intolerable situation runs counter to EU directives on victims of crime as well as natural justice and must be remedied as soon as
possible by the responsible parties of the Bulgarian government.
Whether Bulgarian authorities will take any action against OneCoin remains to be seen.
Nice article by Sputnik:
sputniknews.com/20211118/cryptocurrency-scam-victims-urge-bulgaria-to-take-steps-to-seize-assets-of-onecoin-1090825615.html
Why did they put scam in quotes? Is Sputnik News insinuating OneCoin isn’t a scam?
Instant turn off TBH.
Remembered this from my notes, that I don’t think I’ve publsihed before.
At least there has been some kind of tax case against OneNetwork Services in Bulgaria. (Perhaps the only result from the 2018 Sofia raid?). It seems to be some kind of humdrum case about improper VAT deductions.
The court seems to have ruled against ONS, and when ONS appealed, here is machine translated text of Sofia admin. court appeal ruling on the case:
The link I marked as source doesn’t work anymore. (webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FUsSYzYaQIwJ:search.admincourtsofia.bg/Acts/GetActContent%3FBlobID%3Dfc6b42ee-584b-4da5-baeb-848d84704a6a)
Oz, don’t you know Sputnik is not reliable source of information? Run by Russian trolls under government protection & intention, targeted on former soviet satellites (Eastern and Middle European countries)? Disinformation media?
But to be honest…in this case, information provided seems to be OK (neutral). Except that “scam in quotes”. I am not sure… was it intentional “seeding of confusion”? Or just expressing the jargon usage of the word “scam”?
^ I don’t like to link Sputniknews as a news source either, because obviously it’s pushing Russian general agenda.
But the couple OneCoin articles it has published have been quite fine.
I think the journalist behind the Sputniknews OneCoin articles is London based journalist Chris Summers. Even though this latest article doesn’t mention any journalist name..
sputniknews.com/author_chris_summers/
He has this Twitter channel: twitter.com/totalcrime
@Czech
I know Russian troll farms run all the Facebook alt right Christian groups and they generally run around publishing misinformation, but I hadn’t heard of Sputnik News.
I did have glance at Alexa and it came in at under 1000. Bit worrying.
Sputnik is the former RIA Novosti news agency and is owned by the Russian government. It gives the Russian view on the news same as VOA gives the American, BBC the British and Al Jazeera, the Qatari spin.
Russia has long history with pyramids, possibly only second to OneCoin was Mavrodi’s MMM founded in 1994 and still going on in Africa.
Off topic (Sputnik News)
Yes Oz, it is worrying and disrupting. This is a Russian media aiming abroad, having global coverage. Their resources are high, impact is larger and operations are more sophisticated than operations of other (mostly regional) stupid “alternative” media. Be cautious with this.
nolink://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_(news_agency)
Interesting point: followers and supporters of these “alternative” media outlets (Sputnik + other regional ones) are often participants in the scams covered by BMLM.
And need to say… they are participants acting like useful idiots, vehicles and proxies of the scam admins, enthusiasts loosing money in the end. And they have similar role in spreading the “news” from these media.
“Before we were able to eliminate stupidity of idiots, they successfully bring up the new generation”. That’s them.
This letter while nice and all feels like pissing in the rain.
The very fact that OneCoin et al operates openly in Bulgaria with a public office in the center of Sofia, means that relevant people in Bulgaria’s political circles have already been bribed well enough to ensure the governments indifference in their criminal dealings.
As long as the gravy train is going and bribe money is flowing in Bulgaria no one would do anything.
I doubt that OneCoin is soliciting investors within Bulgaria so there’s no social pressure within the country and at the end of the day neither the Bulgarian authorities nor the populace gives a flying fudge if OneCoin is scamming some random dumb Arabs especially if it benefits powerful people within the country.
Bulgarian authorities will swiftly shut down and erase every trace of OneCoin the moment the bribe gravy train stops or if it becomes a huge enough embarrassment for the country, which I doubt it will at any point because Bulgaria has a huge tolerance for embarrassment.
The EU is entirely impotent when it comes to pressuring member countries regarding their internal dealings, but again I doubt that OneCoin scamming Arabs, Asians and Africans (mostly) even appears on the political radar of EU circles, at least not enough for anyone to bother doing something about it.
The only thing that can be done at this point is ensuring OneCoin investments dry out, and the only strategy I can think of is “death by a thousand cuts”, with examples being bank accounts being reported and shut down, domains being reported, DNS services being reported and small things like that.
I just can’t understand who in their right mind still puts money in that shitshow, how can OneCoin at this point even afford their operations and bribes is beyond me.
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cryptomonday.de/onecoin-pyramide-existiert-immer-noch-in-bulgarien/
Article from NRWZ covering the petition and other latest happenings around OneCoin:
nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-opfer-anwalt-levy-bulgarien-soll-bueros-schliessen/329622
Martin Himmelheber mentions Ruja’s girlfriend Asdis Rán in his article. In this comment our readers will find more details:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/bbc-podcast-explores-ruja-ignatovas-disappearance/#comment-432627
I doubt anyone in law enforcement ever questioned Asdis Ran who clearly was a beneficiary of OneCoin money?
Billions missing but no dedicated task force investigating. Typical for crypto crooks, law enforcement turns a blind eye to it.
I have identified another Bulgarian IT company which cooperates with OneCoin Sofia regarding Dealshaker development.
The IT company is called Plan A:
techplana.com/about/
When browsing the new Dealshaker in development I spotted this yesterday:
Test Business: Plan A
Snejana Vladimirova company email (Project/Operations manager at Plan A)
i.imgur.com/4ZmqgOr.jpg
So of course I went yesterday to Plan A’s Facebook page to ask, what is going on, are they working for OneCoin:
facebook.com/techplana/
i.imgur.com/zXl9vma.jpg
So today, the address for the new Dealshaker development site which was until today completely open access literally for months, went behind a log in script. So it’s pretty easy to conclude that yes, Plan A is now another Bulgarian IT company working for the OneCoin scam..
i.imgur.com/VChhFjh.jpg
A new (?) OneCoin scammer just calls his channel on YouTube “Mr Zmg“. Since February 7th, 2022, this notorious liar from Pakistan has uploaded 16 videos related to OneCoin. Just a snippet:
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Visually, the preview is similar to the videos by Syed Muhammad Muzammil Gilani from Multan, Pakistan.
This video got the petition by Dr. Jon Levy on the content:
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youtube.com/watch?v=QqlVPosplug
PS: In his first video, this Pakistani scammer features age-old offers from the old DealShaker. Among other things, cars offered by the Bulgarian used car dealer Petar Kralev in 2018:
share-your-photo.com/93d0eb250e
share-your-photo.com/883fc73058
youtube.com/watch?v=p11-ybfC-jM
Nikolai Stojanov wrote in November 2021:
share-your-photo.com/a16796b516
Article behind paywall.
capital.bg/biznes/kompanii/2021/11/17/4281509_bulgarskite_vlasti_i_prokuratura_prikrivat_i_pomagat/
Nothing will change in Bulgaria. The new government was overthrown yesterday.
spiegel.de/ausland/bulgarien-regierung-durch-misstrauensvotum-gestuerzt-a-61a9fd9f-ff2f-4803-a345-8ffe3047a3cb
welt.de/politik/ausland/plus239529393/In-Bulgarien-steht-die-Sicherheit-von-Europas-Grenze-auf-dem-Spiel.html
PS: The entire article is only readable for subscribers.