Croatian President a no-show at OneCoin sponsored event
Yesterday the Congress of South East European Women Entrepreneurs held their annual event in the Croatian capital of Zagreb.
As part of a sponsorship agreement the Ministry of Economy, Business and Trade and Congress organizers, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and Deputy Prime-Minister Martina Dalic were scheduled to speak at the event.
On the day of the event it was announced Grabar-Kitarović and Dalic had cancelled their respective appearances.
Why?
In addition to the Croatian government, OneCoin was also a primary sponsor of the event.
The Presidential Office’s decision to pull the President’s appearance was likely influenced by an investment warning issued by the Croatian National Bank on March 7th.
Via press-release, the Croatian National Bank warned consumers that OneCoin was not authorized to operate in Croatia, nor was the company regulated. The bank also pointed to several regulatory warnings from neighboring European countries.
When Croatian press queried the Presidential Office on the President Grabar-Kitarović (right) and Deputy Prime-Minister Dalic’s no-show, OneCoin was cited as the sole reason.
At the time we agreed on sponsorship, we were not familiar with the fact that OneCoin was the general sponsor of the Congress.
The moment we found out about the general sponsor and problems associated with OneCoin, Deputy Prime Minister Martina Dalić canceled their participation.
President Grabar-Kitarović, who was scheduled to speak at 9:50 am, also didn’t attend. The Presidential Office also confirmed the sponsorship deal did not include financial support.
As far as I can tell the Congress event otherwise went ahead as planned. So far there’s been radio silence on the Congress website and Facebook page.
OneCoin Founder Ruja Ignatova had initially been given time to speak at the event in exchange for sponsorship, however following an internal investigation Ignatova was dropped.
How much stolen Ponzi money OneCoin paid on the proviso Ignatova (right) would get to promote OneCoin on stage is unclear. It has since surfaced that a group of OneCoin affiliates had planned to host a recruitment booth at the event.
Despite effectively banning Ignatova from the event, it seems Congress organizers kept OneCoin’s sponsorship funds. This saw OneCoin’s logo prominently displayed on the event stage, potentially creating a PR disaster for the Croatian Presidential Office.
according to an article published by index.hr a few hours ago, the head of the women’s congress, croatia, issued a statement defending their acceptance of onecoin sponsorship.
Sanela Dropulić of the women’s congress apparently stated [my interpretation of the google translated article] that though onecoin was an alleged scam, nothing had been proved against it, and their dealing with the congress had been legal and transparent.
she stated that though the mayor of zangreb, croatia, had legal cases against him, the congress had worked with him too, and this was similar to their acceptance of onecoin sponsorship.
well, someone should ask dropulic, that if she believed onecoin was ‘innocent until proven guilty’, why didn’t she allow ruja ignatova to speak at the event?
sounds like a half baked cover up of an excuse to me!
if onecoin’s [legally unproven] widely alleged criminality is enough for the president of croatia to discard it, what makes dropulic support onecoin’s sponsorship so fervently? did she personally dip into the sponsorship fund or something? what gives dropulic?
index.hr/vijesti/clanak/oglasila-se-organizatorica-skupa-poduzetnica-cijeg-sponzora-istrazuje-policija/955439.aspx
Translation:
SHOW ME TEH MONAAAAY!!! (whether it’s stolen money or not).
Congress of South East European Women Entrepreneurs – Funding women’s interests with stolen money. What a shame.
If they didn’t believe it was a Ponzi, they’d have given Ignatova stage time as originally decided. Can’t have it both ways ladies.
haha, dropulic really has a bleeding heart for onecoin because she feels ‘unfounded’ mud and spit is being thrown at it by the media.
in response to a comment under the article by index.hr, she wrote a few minutes ago:
awww dropulic. i wonder how much money she received from onecoin sponsorship? or maybe she is a onecoin investor herself? women’s entrepreneurship and all!
“Court proceedings” is a strawman argument.
If the City of Zagreb stole money from its residents and then pumped that into the Congress event, you think that would fly?
Apples to apples comparison or stop making excuses Dropulic.
This isn’t that surprising when you consider her original email/letter: behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/onecoin-banned-in-italy-deemed-a-pyramid-scheme/#comment-378255
Without evidence?! She was convicted in Germany on multiple counts of fraud or is that a media witch hunt too?
So the closure of all bank accounts is not a fact? The multiple regulatory warnings and arrests/seizures across dozens of countries is not a fact? The compensation plan clearly proving a pyramid/Ponzi scheme is not a fact? And much more besides.
Way to lose all credibility defending a Ponzi scheme.
Well apparently any news is good news and there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
Amidst all of this riveting new information, Bank of Croatia, conference embarrassment, Italy banning it, seeking prosecution of the Italian branch of the company and its leaders, and despite rumors of ODT U.K. (One Dream Team) literally falling apart with reports of TOP Leaders now defecting, a Tanzanian prison stint, ….and despite even a closed exchange for the club points, and multiple/ solid scientific and witness proof of no blockchain; OneCoin price just saw a new INCREASE of 25.5% this morning and is now up to 9.85€.
TWENTY-FIVE EURO, HERE WE COME!
Do you realize how many millionaires and billionaires were just created overnight?!
WHOOP WHOOP!!!! I think Labile just made 2years salary in the past 12 hours!!
@Tim… how sur are you about that prison thing in Tanzania….?? any proof other than whats on the internet?
Croatian National TV HRT blurred Onecoin logo in their report
NOLINK:vijesti.hrt.hr/377834/tisucu-zena-na-kongresu-poduzetnica-jugoistocne-europe
Other Media wrote about Ruja and Onecoin. Sadly still no mention of Italy.
NOLINK:jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/otkrivamo-istinu-o-bugarskoj-tvrtki-koja-je-sponzorirala-skup-za-drzavni-vrh-predsjednica-i-ministrica-otkazale-dolazak-kada-su-saznale-o-cemu-se-radi/5738135/
NOLINK:index.hr/vijesti/clanak/tko-je-bugarska-prodavacica-magle-koja-je-zavaljala-kolindu/955472.aspx
Onecoin members in Croatia are trying to spin this scandal as if they WON somehow – free publicity and such.
I’m not sure their clepto queen will be so happy with so much media coverage. I’ve even seen mentions and attacks on behindmlm, calling it an website that only bashes MLM’s.
They also spread a photo of Thank You note for Onecoin sponsorship from Event Organizer.
After reading her explanation I’m fairly certain she is connected somewhat with Onecoin pushers in Croatia. There is no other logical explanation for the way she defends the scheme.
Everybody who paid for sponsorship gets a letter like that. Duh.
Heck, LA City Council once presented such a thank you note to the guy who tricked everybody into filming that film that insulted Muslims as well as a scammer who duped tens of thousand people and got kicked out of US, and got arrested in China after he reran the scam there.
NOLINK://amlmskeptic.blogspot.com/2013/11/breaking-news-wcm777-admits-being.html#more
@Sly – RE: prison thing
I’m more than 95% sure but can’t reveal my source. Under the circumstances I believe if asked Grenon is not going to deny it (if 100% true). There Would be no point to.
Someone just needs to get ahold of him on FB, social media our LinkedIn!!
Also, 3 major detectors being rumored today from ODT U.K.!
Monir and Moyn Islam brothers, and Zain Kahn. Again, I’m 95%+ sure that this can EASILY BE CONFIRMED on FB (I’m not asking directly because I’m Satan to OneCULTists who believe in the Virgin Mother Grand Wizard Ruja, who would increase railway fares immediately post train-wreck despite actual PR impression).
@Anti-MLM
Likely no different than the arrangement with Ted Nguyen and Chris Principe. Maybe €40K and that’s a wrap! (Although I’m sure the former’s bribery prices have gone up with the level of heat; the greedy bastards!).
This is getting hilarious.. a few possible carrier suicides 🙂
Scratch the previous about: Monir and Moyn Islam brothers, and Zain Kahn until further confirmations first, for sure. I stand by the story on Grenon firmly still.
Scratch that “scratch!” 🙂
I now have audio directly from Zain Kahn stating why he and the Islam brothers are, “…stopping the OneLife Concept…”
CONFIRMED: ODT U.K. Top Leaders, Zain Kahn, Monir and Moyn Islam (and I BELIEVE Touhid Rahman, as well), “ARE STOPPING THE ONELIFE CONCEPT”.
I’m having trouble uploading the audio to SoundCloud, but will figure it out and post soon!
The Walls of Jericho are beginning to crumble.
Looking forward to see that! Thanks
Guys good work! The Croatian media is full of Ruja and OneCoin for the last 2 days. 2 most visited News websites published stories bashing Onecoin, see some links below. Also yesterday it was mentioned at the evening news, the most watched TV segment in the country.
Please note they reference Behindmlm in the articles, so great job, keep it up! Hopefully this will slow down recruitement in Croatia where local onecoin leaders have taken a lot of money from gullible people.
nolink://index.hr/vijesti/clanak/tko-je-bugarska-prodavacica-magle-koja-je-zavaljala-kolindu/955472.aspx
nolink://jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/otkrivamo-istinu-o-bugarskoj-tvrtki-koja-je-sponzorirala-skup-za-drzavni-vrh-predsjednica-i-ministrica-otkazale-dolazak-kada-su-saznale-o-cemu-se-radi/5738135/
@uni – here you go 🙂
soundcloud.com/user-727473366/zain-khan-says-he-and-islam-brothers-are-leaving-onelife
Tim, what’s that about the assassination attempts on Juha Parhiala you posted on FB?
@Harden – I have TWO highly credible sources for that. In addition, Sebastian is in hiding as well, moving from one hotel to the next.
These are from one “Anonymous (as in the hacker group)” source (who are gnarly techy tracker hacker guys who have been advising and following me ….they have “many eyes into *gadgets”) and another source that I can’t name right now, but is HIGHLY CREDIBLE!
Thanks Tim! This must be VERY recent, because on Moyn Islam’s personal FB and odtgopro pages they continue to post promotions etc from OL… Last one from 06/03.
facebook.com/bymoynislam?fref=ts
facebook.com/ODTGOPRO/
I know people that are close to Juha. If I was provided information about these attempts, I could probably get some confirmation from Juha himself. I just need to be able to ask the right questions.
“The unofficial answers can’t be announced.”
Herp derp, London police got in contact and uh we don’t want to go to jail, bro.”
One of the brothers, Moyn, posted this morning approx 12pm UK time:
with a picture including the ODT website and branding.
What’s caused the sudden change of heart or is there something more to this?
Extremely sudden change caused by intervention and impending announcement regarding U.K., indeed.
Now I am confused. I thought ODTGoPro was the Islam brothers OneCoin/OneLife group where they promoted OD/OL. Now is it something different?
Earlier today both FB pages were still showing ODTGoPro as promoting OC/OL, thus my confusion. If ODTGoPro is no longer promoting OC/OL, what are they promoting?
It looks like some Croatian media finally started investigating OneCoin:
jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/otkrivamo-istinu-o-bugarskoj-tvrtki-koja-je-sponzorirala-skup-za-drzavni-vrh-predsjednica-i-ministrica-otkazale-dolazak-kada-su-saznale-o-cemu-se-radi/5738135/
on january 30th the islam brothers flew to germany [??] to meet:
the name of the MLM company has not been released on social media yet, as far as i can see.
on march 3rd, they held their first major UK recruitment event promising new riches to the ODT gopro team.
basically ODT gopro is the islam brothers downline which they carry from one scam to the next.
if they have been contacted by the london police about onecoin, my guess is they’ll tie up with a semi legitimate MLM company [read: real products] at least, and not take a risk with a pure ponzi/pyramid scam like onecoin for the time being.
Is this speculation or a proven fact? Hopefully it’s the latter as an Italian-style ban in the UK would be devastating for OneCoin and could significantly speed up the collapse.
there is a guy on FB by the name of markus panomies persson who had some witty, well informed responses to onecoin affiliates who got into arguments with him. IIRC he posted comments on behindmlm a few times too.
cant seem to find his FB page anymore. am i misspelling his name or something?
@anjali
Latest ive seen from Markus Panomies. Pity.
murobbs.muropaketti.com/posts/1718223396/
Recently somebody (a lady from Sweden I think it was) asked him why he used a profile picture of a British actor.
He reply was something like “why are you using a picture of an ugly cow”?
After that his account was blocked, which he confirmed on murobbs:
NOLINK://murobbs.muropaketti.com/threads/onecoin-uusi-pyramidihuijaus-krp-rikosta-voidaan-arvioida-luotettavasti-vasta-myoehemmin.1197240/page-608#post-1718223396
It’s a pity, because he had about 5000 “friends”.
How OneCoin top leaders lie – an example
@anon
Not a proven fact yet. This is the chatter at top levels and allegedly one reason leaders are defecting to other opportunities.
@Anjali – RE: there is a guy on FB by the name of markus panomies persson
“Markus” is an anonymous OneCoin detractor who had been fighting against then for about a year maybe.
Scammer Ken Labine and others have been advising their team to report both abuse and aliases directly to FB. They successfully had his profile taken down.
Like many in the EU, OneCoin criminal mafia is too close for comfort and many detractors have taken up aliases and joined the fight.
I assume Markus will resurface, although we do not know who he is or how to reach him. Hopefully he comes back or comments here.
He is definitely in the MurroBBS forum in Finland from what I understand.
I know who he is in Muro, so reaching him is no problem. It’s another thing how he will proceed now.
So, there’s word going around that OneCoin is soon gonna publish somekind of White Paper.
After over 2 years in this situation it seems like a panic move from Ruja, so it will be interesting to see what they can produce (copy).
Of course some leaders are already in extacy and think that it will somehow prove that there’s a blockchain, which it of course doesn’t.
Joby hyped up
Bulgarian news coverage of the Croatia Congress story – 24 Chasa.
Love the auto-translate photo caption, “DR Marshmallow IGNATOVA”.
Two years in, still crickets from Bulgarian authorities…
I really hope it’s true. Analyzing a white paper, signed by Satoshi Ignatova, will be great fun. 😀
Link is invalid without the “www” (but I found it).
Anyway, this event is a PR disaster for OneLife/OneCoine, I actually like that.
Another great article about Ignatova and OneCoin in Croatian newspaper:
index.hr/black/clanak/tko-je-bugarska-prodavacica-magle-koja-je-zavaljala-kolindu/955472.aspx
I can’t even bring it up with “www”, has to have the full https address. Anyway I edited the comment, thanks for catching that.
Yeah, I think Oz has to quit blogging about OneCoin also when/if this White Paper comes out. After all Joby said that “we have news coming out that will checkmate every blogger going.”
Anybody counted how many times Joby has said something like that?
***BREAKING*** – LEAKED ONECOIN WHITEPAPER!
ROFLMAO, you got me, I was really curious 😀