Frank Ricketts’ German OneCoin money laundering trial begins
Frank Ricketts has finally fronted a court in Germany.
Ricketts and two other defendants have been charged with OneCoin money laundering offenses.
Their criminal trial began earlier today.
Frank Ricketts is behind the IMS Marketing Services money laundering empire.
Through IMS and a host of related shell companies, prosecutors allege that Ricketts laundered over 320 million euros for OneCoin.
Owing to OneCoin being a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme, the actual figure is likely much higher.
Funds laundered through IMS were transferred through the Cayman Islands to Sofia, Bulgaria, London and Dubai.
German prosecutors allege Ricketts ran IMS with the assistance of his wife, Manon Hubenthal.
The pair were initially charged by Bielefeld prosecutors with money laundering. The Munster criminal chamber later added an additional aiding and abetting charge.
Ricketts was assisted by Martin Breidenbach (right).
The Munich lawyer is said to have helped. He is said to have sent e-mails to critical inquiries bank employees to conceal the origin of the funds, 75 million euros were thanks to his help in the Cayman Islands.
Breidenbach served as OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova’s personal attorney.
Ricketts and Hubenthal are represented by the notorious law firm SBS Legal.
In November 2020, defense attorney Stephan Schulenberg stated one of his clients (believed to be Ricketts) wasn’t aware of required financial permits.
Schulenberg’s other client (Hubenthal) “acted in good faith”.
At the time, the attorney representing Breidenbach claimed there was insufficient evidence to proceed.
The case against Ricketts, Hubenthal and Breidenbach spans over 15,000 pages. The indictments alone are over 1000 pages in length.
Owing to this the trial has been allocated fifty days in court. A verdict is expected in May 2022.
The case against the defendants has origins in a 2017 investigation opened by the Bielefeld Public Prosecutors Office.
That investigation was in turn triggered by BaFin banning OneCoin across Germany in April 2017.
In November 2020 Bielefeld Public Prosecutors indicted Ricketts, Hubenthal and Breidenbach.
The case was approved for trial in June 2021.
Securing a guilty verdict against Ricketts, Hubenthal and Breidenbach hinges on whether Prosecutors can prove they knew OneCoin was fraudulent.
Mark Scott faced similar charged in the US. He was accused of laundering over $400 million for OneCoin.
Scott was found guilty in November 2019. He is currently awaiting sentencing.
Update 18th September 2021 – There’s been some shakeups to the defendant’s respective legal teams.
As per WhistleBlowerFin in the comments below;
Ricketts is now represented by Michael Heuchemer who is famous for defending a child murderer Magnus Gäfgen.
Moritz Braun from SBS-Legal is representing Martin Breidenbach.
I’m sure these will become more clear as the case goes on. They all have 2 lawyers according to info.
Like myself, WhistleBlowerFin has been tracking OneCoin for years. I consider his intel reliable.
Update 9th January 2024 – Frank Ricketts has been sentenced to five years in prison.
SBS Legal and Stephan Schulenberg have been behind some really nasty harassment campaigns against critics of OC
^ Indeed, it would be more than fair that the human scum Schulenberg met some justice also..
Hopefully some day. The internet will definitely not forget.
I got info that Schulenberg has dropped off from defending Ricketts and Hübenthal since last Wednesday.
Ricketts is now represented by Michael Heuchemer who is famous for defending a child murderer Magnus Gäfgen.
Moritz Braun from SBS-Legal is representing Martin Breidenbach.
But anyway, I’m sure these will become more clear as the case goes on. They all have 2 lawyers according to info.
Lawyers defending child murderers. What a nice touch. Ricketts probably worked out that Schulenberg wasn’t going to get him anywhere by threatening other people and partying on Ruja’s yacht.
Was Arlo Devlin-Brown too busy on the Scott case? That and Americans only seem to speak one language very often
Thanks for that update Fin, I’ve added a note to the article.
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hna.de/wirtschaft/onecoin-verantwortliche-bei-mammut-prozess-in-muenster-vor-gericht-zr-90987989.html
might this trial have any effect on Kari Wahlroos or Udo Deppisch?
… or can they just continue as before?
flickr.com/photos/134729469@N04/23953692840
Unfortunately EU regulators on the whole have an aversion to regulating MLM Ponzi fraud.
Ref: Igor Alberts and the Netherlands.
WDR Actuelle Stunde video report about the Münster OneCoin trial:
youtu.be/smIpp9fOcdU
This just in: Frank Ricketts and Manon Hubenthal HAVE NO FACES!
edit: who’s the old guy they censor at the end? It’s not Briedenbach, he’s sitting there to the right.
King Jayms comments on the OneCoin trial in Germany;
youtu.be/dA7DGQ6K2SA?t=1680
He expects the Company to release some kind of official response about the trial.
He brazenly lies that the trial is about misdeeds of some ordinary IMAs. The defendants Martin Breidenbach — who is Ruja´s personal lawyer — and Manon Hübenthal didn´t do any OneCoin promoting, and although Frank Ricketts did, he had a prominent corporate and consultant role too, and they are all accused of laundering for Ruja´s personal benefit.
This relates to the issue KJ addresses again at the end of the webinar — which evidently and understadably causes ire in the network –, namely that IMAs have lost all the monies they earned as comissions to the “Cash Account” ca. 2017-2021. (Simon Le claimed in his April 2020 resignation letter that the total sum of this liability is over €600 million.)
In August this year, the Company officially killed any hope of getting their old earned comissions paid and just created “New Cash Account” through which the IMAs can be paid for the new sales comissions they earn.
The trial relates to this issue because Ignatov crime family and Bulgarian mafia have robbed all their monies, and the defendants in German trial helped to pull it off. (As did Mark Scott, Gilbert Armenta, Frank Schneider and many others.)
Although Veselina Valkova allegedly robbed the company coffers again in late 2019, the bulk of the comissions monies had been stolen by Ruja by the time she disappeared, as Konstantin testified at the Mark Scott trial:
(p.67-68 ; Tr 253-254 –> storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.482287/gov.uscourts.nysd.482287.189.0.pdf)
In absurd attempt of gaslighting manipulation, KJ refrains that “nothing has been lost”. Yeah, everything has been stolen but nothing has been lost. 😉
Given that the promoters are sending their monies to a Bulgarian mafioso who is known as “boss of the thieves, legendary robber” (–> https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/fbi-celebrates-frank-schneiders-arrest-thanks-french-police/#comment-439473), it´s only matter of time until the “New Cash Account” get´s robbed too.
Lol @ reducing Ruja Ignatova’s inner-circle to “ordinary IMAs”.
Well, you didn’t lose your $600M in commissions. Well uh ok, technically you lost your money.
I would like to see KingJayms lie how Martin Breidenback, Ruja’s personal lawyer and the director of OneCoin Ltd (on paper) during 22/04/2015 – 24/12/2015, who never did any promotion, was a “badly acting Independent Marketing Associate”. 😀
behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/onecoin-legal-opinion-authored-by-director-of-the-company/
Anyway, non-German members probably could buy the lies which KingJayms and OneCoin Sofia will invent about this, but from the German news reports it becomes quite clear for the German speaking members that this is not any IMA case at all.
This is a massive trial with 50 trial days set. Mark Scott’s trial only lasted 12 days.
Also from the German news it becomes obvious for the German speaking members that this is the continuation of the Bielefeld prosecutor’s investigation on the company, which includes the OneCoin Sofia office raid on January 2018.
So yeah, can’t wait to see how the OneCoin scammers are going to explain how this is just about IMAs..
Veselina Valkova robbed the company? Who’d have thunk it!
I thought she was too busy talking to “the central bank” to get an exchange
Has the fraudulent OneCoin preacher Cordel “KingJayms” James changed his email address? My email to him yesterday could not be delivered:
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Is his home address and phone number still correct?
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The fraud portal deal4u.biz from Trinidad and Tobago no longer exists:
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Here is an old screenshot from my archive:
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Patrice James was “CEO”, Jason B. Gordon registered the domain and Imtiaz Mohammed was a simple DealShaker consultant:
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PS: Patrice James, the wife of OneCoin preacher Cordel James, also uses the false name Jayms on the Internet. Here is an example:
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By the way, Patrice James tried unsuccessfully to sell cosmetic products from a Polish company on DealShaker. She currently no longer offers any products:
dealshaker.com/en/merchant/rhVxP73WO9ObXoez7Ksv3Exl2eoVr4WuaI8ei6DZsWk~/deals
Stefan Gut from Zuzwil in Switzerland calls himself money trainer and director at his so-called Institute for Financial Education.
He is looking for stupid people who would pay 18,000 euros and 425.23 ONE for his VIP MONEY MENTORING PROGRAM on DealShaker:
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dealshaker.com/en/deal/vip-money-mentoring-programm/ootAA5zQZk23vpufmaysE9uu7W*4KgGVBJwdQr3Qmjw~
Quote from the offer:
That corresponds to an hourly wage of ~ 1,000 euros (or 500 euros per hour without worthless ONEs):
In his contact details on dealshaker.com, he does not mention a location. Why? But there is a complete imprint on his website iffb.ch:
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Another website by Stefan Gut is viertesaeule.ch (English: fourth pillar) with a similar imprint:
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Important! If you want to get a financial education from Stefan Gut, you have to hurry. Of the 40 coupons offered since October 2019, only 40 coupons are still available…
I found this fantastic offer because it was recommended by OneCoin scammer Emil Blumer (DealShaker Country Manager Switzerland and Liechtenstein).
Emil Blumer was mentioned repeatedly in the newsletters of the OneCoin scammers in Sofia and is a frequent guest in videos with OneCoin preacher Cordel “KingJayms” James from Trinidad and Tobago:
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youtube.com/watch?v=dA7DGQ6K2SA&t=1680s
Emil Blumer is the most active OneCoin fraudster in Switzerland and is the founder of EAGLE DREAM TEAM SWISS with the following websites:
– eagledreamteam.ch
– edtswiss.ch (Knowledge is power, become a professional!)
– cheb.blinco.ch (80.218.51.166)
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On this pages he announces numerous scam events. An example:
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80.218.51.166/blinco/?Category=ICEAdm&Service=home1&Usr=kalender&slash=/
An older photo of him without a beard:
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His contact details are of course incomplete. He says neither place nor street:
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A second phone number without mentioning a name:
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With this “official” imprint Emil Blumer directs the responsibility for the fraud to an association or club for the “promotion of digitization”:
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80.218.51.166/CISystem/Images//Imp.htm
I did not find this ominous “club” in the official club register in Switzerland.
My best friend Google knows a OneCoin scammer who lives or has lived at this address: Josef “Sepp” Neff:
share-your-photo.com/03f94d9ffc
Josef “Sepp” Neff was a guest in a video by the brain-cracked Martin Mayer:
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youtube.com/watch?v=BTSFahcLiBk&list=PLgdiIblLMtblV-CXkgT5xoOi3uDUcATHA&index=29
Emil Blumer has had his own YouTube channel since March 22, 2020, but it is empty:
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But he produces videos. Here is an example:
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youtube.com/watch?v=NzfRIygA0h0
The video starts with OneCoin scammer Michael Yeo from Australia:
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Because Emil Blumer hardly speaks English, his lies are translated by Marcus Held in the video.
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focus.de/finanzen/onecoin-prozess-in-muenster-gestartet-ruja-ignatova-die-krypto-koenigin-die-mit-einem-millionen-vermoegen-verschwand_id_24265022.html
We know that some OneCoin scammers operate with false or incomplete names. Today I discovered this scammer from Bern, Switzerland. He calls himself Martin Fuchs on LinkedIn:
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I recognized this scammer straight away, but using the same photo in the past he called himself Martin J. Ficza:
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What is the real name of this cheater? He used both names to advertise his fraud portal kryptowaehrung-nummer-eins.com:
share-your-photo.com/4b9ba064ca
Whoever visits the website today will be redirected to amazon.de.
I have commented more details about this fraudster as “Martin J. Ficza” here:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/konstantin-arrested-criminal-charges-filed-against-ruja-ignatova/#comment-409218
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/three-onecoin-money-launderers-indicted-in-germany/#comment-436781
His current website is ficza.ch, but without content:
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His Instagram account shows him old and with long hair:
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MARTlN FlCZA on YouTube:
youtube.com/channel/UCT5Ul5ZtLGpm0WexN0P-7hQ/videos
I’m assuming this guy’s real name is Martin J. Ficza and the name “Martin Fuchs” is fake on his LinkedIn profile.
Update from the trial:
www-nrwz-de.translate.goog/premium/onecoin-verfahren-frank-r-war-ein-top-leader-sagt-konstantin-ignatov/324117?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui
nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-prozessauftakt-mit-grossem-medienecho/323726
handelsblatt.com/finanzen/maerkte/devisen-rohstoffe/gerichtsverhandlung-raetsel-um-vermeintliche-kryptowaehrung-onecoin-auf-der-suche-nach-der-blockchain/27665894.html?ticket=ST-6866362-bs0NTgrjMO0e3xC9uILk-ap5
wn.de/muensterland/kreis-steinfurt/greven/millionenbetrug-vor-gericht-2425543
Attorney Johannes Bender who represents OneCoin victims in the secondary suit in the Münster OneCoin trial, wrote about the OneCoin blockchain and fraud questions covered in court so far.
Pretty good read. Hopefully it reaches lots of German members.
Google translated.
anwalt.de/rechtstipps/onecoin-und-warum-daraus-nichts-mehr-werden-kann-193415.html
NO BLOCKCHAIN – end of. JC! How did so many Germans get suckered into this?
You’d be more likely to accept Ugandans and Bangladeshis. Thay have not had the benefit of a proper education very often. But Germans, Austrians and Swedes?!
Really no different than 75% of ICOs with or without a supposed blockchain.
Some of the whitepapers, even on 8 and 9 figure ICOs, make OneCoin look like the Federal Reserve Bank.
An update from the trial: the judge states Frank Ricketts and Manon Hubenthal will face at least two years in jail.
1 nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-prozess-in-muenster-fake-coins/327223
2 nrwz.de/featured/onecoin-prozess-in-muenster-es-ging-immer-nur-um-token/327786
Teflon Ricketts is suddenly not so Teflon. He should also be on trial for SiteTalk, Unaico, MountainWolf, etc, etc.
@Dymista, thanks, I had missed the second article from last Tuesday which is extremely interesting!
Thanks for sharing that Dymista. Swapped out the auto-translate links for the originals as Google Translate links don’t play nice as the years go by.
I like these German judges. “Pssst, you’re screwed. There’s still time to plead guilty…”
Addition to comments #16 and 17
Emil Blumer also recommends this website: fahrzeugwelt.ch (vehicle world).
The owner of the company is Roli Gilomen from Diepoldsau (Switzerland):
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Roli Gilomen answered my wish to buy a car from him as follows:
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We remember the following companies or people who allegedly delivered cars that could be paid for with OneCoin:
– OneMillionShop (Poland)
A comment from WhistleBlowerFin:
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– QTBC Group (Azerbaijan)
web.archive.org/web/20181211232041/http://www.qtbcgroup.com/
– Steven Wagner (Projekt Autohaus), Germany
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– Petar Kralev (Bulgaria and Romania), here with OneCoin preacher Cordel “KingJayms” James:
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@ Melanie
There was also a Thai. She sold cars on DS and her own sites, collected a few million and vanished.
There is an arrest warrant out for her and she is a fugitive.
@ Stevie
Thanks for the tip. Do you mean this woman?
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youtube.com/watch?v=ZXA53c-kFXo
OneCoin scammer Thanh Duong (“Thanh OC”) from Adelaide spread another lie:
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Why do OneCoin scammers always seem to be getting away with making ridiculous promises that never happen?
@ Delta
My Opinion: OneCoin believers are stupid and greedy and extremely thoughtless. They provide personal documents (KYC) to scammers in Sofia, which can be used to commit new scams.
Just reading up on it. What kind of people call their customers stupid and idiots, take the money with a smile and accept their hospitality? I don’t use the word evil very often.
London penthouse funded from Kampala sluns, disgusting.
Which Mercedes dealer in India is so stupid and accepts worthless OneCoins as payment? On June 2, 2018, OneCoin scammer Prince Suhaib Raza uploaded the following video:
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Who knows the “top leader” in the old screenhot of that video? Is that Mohammed Mulla?
Why did Prince Suhaib Raza delete this video on his YouTube channel?
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youtube.com/channel/UCqz_aTBHipGkCyq2c65eqtw/videos
Prince Suhaib Raza sometimes calls himself MSRaza:
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An older link:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/onecoin-scammer-muhammad-zafar-arrested-in-pakistan/#comment-437735
For the first time Prince Suhaib Raza or MSRaza from Gulbarga in India was mentioned on BehindMLM in this topic:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/third-chinese-onecoin-affiliate-arrests-uncovered-1-2-million-in-losses/
See comments # 16, 22, 28 and 36.
Prince Suhaib Raza on YouTube:
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T-Online, the largest telephone and internet provider in Germany, reported:
t-online.de/finanzen/boerse/news/id_90830192/milliarden-betrug-was-wussten-die-mitarbeiter-der-krypto-koenigin-.html
t-online.de/finanzen/boerse/news/id_90910742/oneceoin-trauen-sie-bei-kryptowaehrungen-nicht-ihren-freunden-.html
coin-ratgeber.de/onecoin-scam-scam-drahtzieher/
PS: The article contains two well-known videos with Ruja and one video with Sebastian Greenwood.
Addition to comment #31
Since September 24th, 2021 there is a new scam channel on YouTube: Asset Guide:
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The operator is an Indian and his name is obviously Begram Singh. That’s what he calls himself on his website wjsnews.com:
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In several videos, Begram Singh claims that cars were bought that could be paid for with 40% OneCoin:
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youtube.com/watch?v=-lr8-8kyWnY
youtube.com/channel/UCn2IcJ12yD5df6mhMWnsLVQ/videos
Begram Singh is an obvious scammer who did a lot to attack the work of the BBC over OC on social media.
Addition to comment #31
onecars.eu also no longer delivers cars that can be paid for with OneCoin. The scam portal no longer exists. As is usual with professional fraudsters, the website onecars.eu was not allowed to be saved in the web archive!
The operators were Jean Luc Beille from France and André Minguy from Quebec, Canada. Both speak French.
Jean Luc Beille has deleted all videos on his YouTube channel:
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youtube.com/channel/UCIRjo08CR1HYDEQpeOWRW0Q/videos
However, the two of them continue to operate their portal onepowerteam.com together. All videos on this portal have also been deleted. Two examples:
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Jean Luc Breille called himself a top leader in the OneDreamTeam of the Steinkeller brothers:
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youtube.com/watch?v=Is6PvChDHMA
A personal website from OneCoin scammer André Minguy. Most of the videos are no longer available on this scam portal either:
gaigagnerargentinternet.wordpress.com/onecoin-andre-minguy/
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André Minguy also promotes the OneCoin scam on his car with phone number and e-mail address:
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share-your-photo.com/14728509da (better readable)
He also promotes the Lyoness fraud on LinkedIn:
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On December 19, 2018, André Minguy showed on Facebook how many millions of euros he owns – in the form of worthless OneCoins:
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Today that would be an impressive 21,466,283.30 euros.
So that his OneCoins cannot be stolen, André Minguy hides them in a safe. 🙂 Or are the worthless AurumGoldCoins in the black bags?
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Has anyone actually ever received a car paid for in 100% OC? No taxes, no other money spent – just the car. At the market rate in that country.
And not a 2nd hand thing to simulate a OC transaction either. I would like to presently surprised but I won’t be.
@Delta: I think we can safely say that no-one has received a car paid for in OC in a genuine commercial transaction.
And if anyone has it would hardly be a pleasant surprise as it would just mean that some hapless car dealer got scammed by a OneCoiner.
@Delta
You shouldn’t doubt! 🙂 The fat man walking through the video here is OneCoin scammer Cristi Calina from Romania.
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youtube.com/watch?v=z7c5z1XA06Y
If I remember correctly, it was an auction, not an ordinary purchase. Timothy Curry mentioned this here:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/chinese-authorities-differentiate-onecoin-points-from-legitimate-crypto/#comment-399206
@Delta
In India you could buy a used BMW 320i and pay 100% with OneCoin. Maybe rusted and with engine failure?
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A 2008 model is being sold, but the photo shows a new car and a younger model. Very serious!
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youtube.com/watch?v=7tjBz0ViN9M
Unfortunately I can’t find this video anymore:
Apparently the notorious liar and OneCoin scammer Syed Muhammad Muzammil Gilani from Multan, Pakistan deleted the video on his YouTube channel “Crowd Ideas”.
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Since October 18, 2021, OneCoin scammer Syed Muhammad Muzammil Gilani from Pakistan has also been spreading his lies on his private channel “Syedgilanis“:
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youtube.com/channel/UCW3SMFPGwKcQ1lX9feiwYhg
Addition to comment #40
Begram Singh‘s answer to OneCoin’s market capitalization question today is this:
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A gigantic number, but he doesn’t name a currency. Does he mean euros or Indian rupees? 1 Indian rupee corresponds to the value of 0.012 euros:
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youtube.com/watch?v=8xGhp97Drnc
Begram Singh comes across as a complete moron. He also once told his followers to not trust the BBC. He’s a real Hindi Martin Mayer
Satendra Saini or Satendra Kumar Saini is one of the most active OneCoin scammers from India. I have already written several comments about him here. An example:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/konstantins-testimony-drops-one-onecoin-bombshell-after-another/#comment-417327
Today I noticed that he deleted some advertisements for the OneCoin scam. On LinkedIn he calls himself Banker at State Bank of India :
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linkedin.com/in/satendra-kumar-saini-59520770/?originalSubdomain=in
Is Buenos Aires a city in India? Three years ago this Indian cheater wrote:
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steemit.com/introduceyourself/@satendrasaini/can-you-help
It is noteworthy that all advertising for OneCoin / OneLife has been removed from his personal website satendrasaini.com.
His YouTube channel “Top Tips” also barely contains any advertising for OneCoin at the moment:
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youtube.com/c/SatendraSaini/about
Many of his old links are dead:
The “Banker at State Bank of India” is currently promoting the following products: hair oil, shampoo, skin creams, etc.
A recent photo by Satendra Saini:
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Satendra Saini on his website satendrasaini.com:
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Two years ago he spread the following lie:
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Because he removed a lot of the OneCoin advertising, I asked him if he left OneCoin. His answer by email:
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Strange. On wjsnews.com/category/cbdc/ all articles are written by Begram Singh. Does this Indian cheater use two different names? See comments # 40 and 49.
Satendra Saini calls himself satendraonelife on Instagram:
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Oh dear. I woulkd have thought Begram Singh believed in Karma. Everyone involved in this pays.
They will pay in this life or the next for the absolute misery they have unleashed.
Ask Konstantin or Sebastian how that is working out for them.
Addition to comments # 47 and 48
The well-known OneCoin fraudster Syed Muhammad Muzammil Gilani from Multan in Pakistan has posted a photo on one of his numerous YouTube channels (“Livestock Farming by Doctor Irfan“):
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Here I have enlarged the photo:
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Of course, the photo doesn’t show “Doctor Irfan“. Here is the same photo with a different background from the New York Times:
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nytimes.com/2021/08/21/us/politics/democrats-voting-rights-supreme-court.html
Here is a direct comparison:
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I think our readers should know what “Doctor Irfan” actually looks like. I don’t see any resemblance … 🙂
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The Polish website
sites.google.com/site/krainaoptimisty/home/contact
was also used to advertise the bank details of IMS International Marketing Services GmbH in Greven. Here is the account at Deutsche Bank:
share-your-photo.com/809a6da734
The term “OneCoin” was also not allowed to be used for transfers from Poland to Germany! Only the name of the buyer and the purchased “educational package” were allowed:
Addition to comment #33
A terrible video from December 2017:
share-your-photo.com/b161c6f3a7
Uploaded by “Sunshine Luck Plenty” = ElenikaOneCoin
youtube.com/watch?v=J567NCYWX0U
On Facebook this scammer is also called ElenikaOneCoin – a Russian woman who supposedly lives in Spain?
share-your-photo.com/0282caf9ea
Her channel with 219 videos. The channel contains a lot of Russian-language videos:
share-your-photo.com/e67d9c3f3f
youtube.com/c/ElenikaOneCoin/videos
In this video, Frank Ricketts is referred to as a OneCoin mastermind. A Russian from the ANGELS TEAM translates his lies.
share-your-photo.com/419238ef3f
Behind Frank Ricketts are the Steinkeller Brothers on stage.
youtu.be/LMEFE2cHwSQ?t=8
More information about the Russian ANGELS TEAM here:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/onecoin-recovery-scam-surfaces-with-deepfakes-actor/#comment-442739
Keep reading on
come-on.de/wirtschaft/fincen-files-frankfurt-onecoin-kryptowaehrung-deutschland-schaden-bank-ruja-ignatova-bitcoin-zr-90054020.html
share-your-photo.com/6ae7416204
Wow! I’m excited. 15 months after the introduction of the OneLife 2.0 system, it should finally be possible to log in without complications. The whole truth or a new fairy tale?
us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=cf9659fd672fe664d487e7e1b&id=4e55bca3f1
Today German television broadcasts the following report on ZDF:
zdf.de/live-tv
This audio file (in German) is still online. A download is possible. Length 5:52 minutes.
wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr5/wdr5-westblick-aktuell/audio-prozess-um-onecoin-betrug-startet-in-muenster-100.html
Video with 211,166 views and 1,034 comments.
share-your-photo.com/a62d881a8a
youtube.com/watch?v=ORgSEjQtMrE
A Russian from the ANGELS TEAM translates Frank Ricketts’ lies.
Behind Frank Ricketts are the Steinkeller Brothers on stage:
share-your-photo.com/9860785d47
youtube.com/watch?v=LMEFE2cHwSQ
Addition to comment #40
I’m a bit irritated now. Are Begram Singh and Satendra Kumar Saini the same person?
The profile photo on the “Asset Guide” channel definitely shows OneCoin scammer Satendra Saini:
share-your-photo.com/8019a1d5ce
Satendra Saini on his website satendrasaini.com:
share-your-photo.com/bbad3a9a93
Satendra Saini in this video with link to wjsnews.com:
share-your-photo.com/4b76e5e5e5
youtube.com/watch?v=SWFyinkdhp0
So the photo from comment #40 ( – share-your-photo.com/ae173bbef3 – ) does not show Begram Singh but Satendra Saini.
Two older comments about this guy:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/konstantin-ignatov-denied-release-will-stay-locked-up-till-onecoin-trial/#comment-412260
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/konstantins-testimony-drops-one-onecoin-bombshell-after-another/#comment-417327
Addition to comments #16, 17 and 31
Emil Blumer (left) traveled to Bogota and was awarded an EAGLE. A ridiculous procedure, but in MLM many people are addicted to titles and awards:
share-your-photo.com/8330b49c8c
youtu.be/93R4hQdGeNo?t=1402
Emil Blumer as a participant in a webinar with Cordel “KingJayms” James:
share-your-photo.com/3f4cb96f2a
youtu.be/aSTBAoT1N70?t=1761
Mauricio (left) and Raul Pazos Medina in Bogota:
share-your-photo.com/81e0832711
youtu.be/t2ygmN9rxVI?t=240
Who knows Mauricio’s full name?
His full name is Mauricio Garavito, he is an MLM “leader” from Colombia and the newly appointed company coordinator for Latam.
i.imgur.com/XWm7r2a.jpg
facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005094678846
youtu.be/CIHLk_Rf6vI?t=30647
Addition to comment #62
A report on the same topic from Austria:
onthemarket.com/details/6320434/ (with 38 photos)
The complete property description fills a whole page.
futurezone.at/digital-life/kryptobetruegerin-ruja-ignatova-wohnung-penthouse-london-onecoin/401792780
The presiding judge Hans-Georg Pfeiffer in Münster should watch this video. Serial scammer Frank Ricketts repeatedly mentions Sebastian Greenwood and that OneCoin will go public on October 8th, 2018. Frank Ricketts stands alone on stage and lies like a motivating teacher for 36 minutes:
share-your-photo.com/8e01f7f39b
youtube.com/watch?v=OYGiNqMDn8I
Uploaded by OneCoin scammer Gunnar Jonasson from Iceland:
share-your-photo.com/884b754f2b
Gunnar Jonasson never answered this question:
His channel:
youtube.com/channel/UCuS0o02QWrJu_jOKw5cb_Zg/videos
OneCoin scammer Gunnar Jonasson has a private group on Facebook – OneEcoSystem Iceland – with 321 members:
share-your-photo.com/f1a54a60ae
He still recommends buying Ruja’s worthless education packs, such as Tycoon:
share-your-photo.com/a19860d1ee
youtube.com/watch?v=e1K5QzQZ_B0
Philipp Bovermann from the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote in an extensive article, among other things:
share-your-photo.com/3cc07edf0d
sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/onecoin-kryptowaehrung-blockchain-mlm-strukturvertrieb-ignatova-scam-betrug-1.5413881
When Ruja gets cuffed soon do you think she’ll go quietly like her brother, sob and collapse on the floor, tell her bodyguards to go Ned Kelly or fly into a tantrum?
That’s a very lopsided way of stating Frank Ricketts has been scamming people through MLM Ponzi schemes for decades.
Bad news from Münster. The district court wanted to announce the verdicts against the three accused in May. That won’t happen.
Martin Himmelheber has published a new article:
nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-platzt-der-mammut-prozess-in-muenster/346695
New article by Martin Himmelheber.
PS: Here Konstantin Ignatov is quoted, who testified in the trial against Mark Scott.
nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-muenster-prozess-ausgesetzt/346931
What are we now, eight years after OneCoin’s launch? I don’t think anyone has been sent to prison yet have they?
PS. Slow down Melanie! You seem as busy as I am these days.
Meanwhile recruitment events will happen next weekend in London
@Oz
Do you want to hear my honest opinion?
Each snail is significantly faster than German offices and authorities. This also applies to the German judiciary as a whole.
A German civil servant is not paid for his professional work, it is sufficient if he is present in his office. Judges and prosecutors are civil servants for life. They are non-cancellable.
The German data protection laws hinder the investigators. This is ideal for any form of money laundering.
A report from May 12, 2021 on Second German Television (ZDF) had the title:
share-your-photo.com/59460044c5
PS: I wrote more in the last few days because I don’t know how much longer my PC will work.
Here is the video on YouTube with 481,269 views:
youtube.com/watch?v=Zg-HXAb7MCo
This newspaper article from today describes very clearly the current situation in Germany.
share-your-photo.com/3dfe28177a
PS: Unfortunately only readable for subscribers.
welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus239020671/Dysfunktionaler-Staat-Deutschland-funktioniert-nicht-mehr.html
Sorry to hear things aren’t going too great there Melanie. Whatever happens, please look after yourself.
I’m celebrating my 73rd birthday tomorrow with clear mineral water without carbonic acid. French champagne costs 20% more today than it did a year ago. 🙁
That is why I am asking our readers for generous donations to my account BG.1234567890.DE at OneCoin Bank EOOD in Sofia. That’s the only bank I trust. The CEO speaks German and is a woman:
share-your-photo.com/1b3b0a5626
PS: I prefer ONE. Dollars and euros lose value every day due to high inflation.
New article by Martin Himmelheber.
nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-ignatovas-ehemann-im-visier-der-ermittler/346773
Happy birthday Melanie 😀
I can only hope my mind is half as sharp as yours when I catch up to you.
Happy Birthday Melanie. All the best on your special day. Check your email.
Not happy as the bank refused to accept my ONE! How can this be? ONE is the future of cryptocurrency and is the Bitcoin killer.
Are you sure this CEO and bank can be trusted? Surely they didn’t refuse my ONE because I am in the US.
@Oz and @Lynn
Many thanks for your congratulations. I hope to remain mentally fit for a few more years.
I am very grateful that I can write here, which would be impossible in this form in Germany.
On December 31, 2017, IMS International Marketing Services GmbH from Greven with managing director Manon Hübenthal (formerly Manon Wissmann) had cash on hand, bank balances and checks totaling 29.1 million euros.
A lot of money for an “advertising agency” that wasn’t in any phone book and didn’t have its own website!
share-your-photo.com/fced0b2706
northdata.de/IMS+International+Marketing+Services+GmbH,+Greven/Amtsgericht+Steinfurt+HRB+11191
PS: Greven is a small town with about 38,000 inhabitants.
Small correction.
Frank Ricketts and Manon Hübenthal had registered the following domain:
ims4u.eu
The web archive shows that this webpage never had any content:
web.archive.org/web/20120831214715/http://www.ims4u.eu/defaultsite
Six years later:
web.archive.org/web/20180110091339/http://ims4u.eu/defaultsite
Current status: ims4u.eu is still available!
When the scammers from Münster and Greven were looking for an employee with excellent Swedish language skills, they gave their website and phone number:
share-your-photo.com/063d6f514d
share-your-photo.com/e017d1aa1b
joolist.eu/sk-de/pracovna-ponuka-burokraft-m-w-mit-schwedisprachkenntnissen-arbeitsort-munster-westfalen/showjob-1378081-4—–4190–1
Another phone number was mentioned here:
share-your-photo.com/21057ed73f
Addition to comment #17
I discovered a fourth Emil Blumer scam portal today: vzfvd.ch
“vzfvd” is the abbreviation for “Verein zur Förderung von Digitalisierungen” (Association for the Promotion of Digitization).
Of course, the website does not contain an imprint or other contact information. Of the seven links (Country Board Departments) on the right, the following are inactive:
Because this fraudster also has copy protection installed, unfortunately no screenshot is possible.
This video with OneCoin scammers Emil Blumer and Michael Yeo does not have copy protection yet:
share-your-photo.com/57271718d8
youtube.com/watch?v=NzfRIygA0h0
In 2018, the following individuals founded EDT Swiss GmbH in Switzerland:
Marcel-Pius Stolz – Katja Ursula Kobelt – Emil Blumer – Laszlo Horog – Josef Neff – Carl-Johan Olsson – Ingrid Petek
share-your-photo.com/5dcfa50f3b
A link to Laszlo Horog:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/ruja-ignatova-disappeared-with-230000-btc-lawsuit-alleges/#comment-439638
A link to Josef “Sepp” Neff:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/three-onecoin-money-launderers-indicted-in-germany/#comment-439024 and comment #17 in this thread.
Since 2019, Emil Blumer, who sometimes calls himself Emil Blumer-Göllner, has been managing the company alone. The share capital of the company is CHF 20,000:
share-your-photo.com/d6776b7e1d
moneyhouse.ch/de/company/edt-swiss-gmbh-13094897841
PS: His YouTube channel …
youtube.com/channel/UCxvV9kp5x88k-8alMjr1Gvw/videos
… with 102 subscribers is still empty. But his (blurred) photo still exists:
share-your-photo.com/2a4e2d8617
Hey Melanie, thx for this. I had no trouble making a screenshot of the website.
And I’ve archived the site: web.archive.org/web/20220810091219/http://vzfvd.ch/
@Dymista
Thank you for pointing this out. I have tried several times to upload the screenshot to share-your-photo.com, but it refuses to save. A reason is not given, but I suspect that some scammers use copy protection.
This rarely happens, but I experience it more often with OneCoin videos on YouTube.
Addition to comment #90
Emil Blumer from Glarus in Switzerland is guaranteed not to be a businessman, but a stupid and simple-minded scammer. Two examples:
1. he uses an email address on edtswiss.ch that is no longer valid:
share-your-photo.com/fa8fba0cb1
share-your-photo.com/0cb1f243e4
2. he uses the designation “ABG’s“, which does not exist in German-speaking countries. This is also true in Switzerland.
Correct should be: “AGB” (without s) – this corresponds to the T&C in English-speaking countries. Explanation:
General terms and conditions means in German:
A = Allgemeine
G = Geschäfts
B = Bedingungen
share-your-photo.com/f9287a5cb2
80.218.51.166/CISystem/Images//Abgs_blinco.htm
In comments #40, 51 and 64 I mentioned the fraud portal wjsnews.com, which still exists. I quote in part from an article by Pinto from Helsinki (Finland) that was published on this portal without date:
share-your-photo.com/049d9c40ff
wjsnews.com/future-cryptocurrency-that-will-rule-the-market/
Addition to comment #42
The domain of the former OneCoin fraud portal onepowerteam.com can now be purchased for $2,995:
sedo.com/search/details/?language=us&domain=onepowerteam.com&partnerid=55490&origin=partner
In the web archive, this OneCoin scam portal was last saved on September 24, 2022:
web.archive.org/web/20220924182856/https://onepowerteam.com/
Addition to comment #94
Satendra Kumar Saini’s wjsnews.com scam portal from India no longer exists:
share-your-photo.com/3954e217d7
wjsnews.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi
His YouTube channel Wjs News still exists:
share-your-photo.com/e48d6599ae
share-your-photo.com/42a55077d1
youtube.com/@wjsnews3259/videos
Correction. Unfortunately, the scam portal wjsnews.com of Satendra Kumar Saini from India is back online. Obviously he had forgotten to pay the annual fee for his domain.
share-your-photo.com/d6c4436c0c
His last article and video. In the picture Raúl Pazos Medina from Ecuador:
We remember: Because the OneCoin is absolutely worthless, every service must be paid in real currencies!
youtube.com/watch?v=FSDEs1taTdA
In an extensive article yesterday, German journalist Martin Himmelheber also briefly mentioned from the courtroom in Münster:
Münster/Sofia.
Today, one of the three defendants, the Munich lawyer Martin Breidenbach, made a statement before the Münster Regional Court. Together with Frank Ricketts and Manon Hübenthal,
Martin Breidenbach is facing charges including money laundering and aiding and abetting fraud. The prosecution accuses the three defendants of having moved sums of millions from OneCoin proceeds for real estate purchases in London or on Caribbean islands.
We will report on Breidenbach’s statement in detail here.
share-your-photo.com/f6779e936f
nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-verfahren-in-muenster/403093
In an extensive article yesterday, German journalist Martin Himmelheber also briefly mentioned from the courtroom in Münster:
share-your-photo.com/f6779e936f
nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-verfahren-in-muenster/403093
Meanwhile, the article has been updated. Detailed report on Martin Breidenbach’s statement. He denied being in the know or as the Germans put it: “Mein Name ist Hase”.
And Frank Ricketts?
The court in Münster has now indicated that Frank Ricketts intends to make a declaration on May 30, 2023.
I take it Ricketts will rock up and pull the ol’ “but I didn’t know!” nonsense too?
@Oz
You were right. “Black Diamond” Frank Ricketts lied in court:
New article by German journalist Martin Himmelheber.
Frank Ricketts has portrayed himself as a successful businessman with extensive experience in multi-level marketing through his two companies OPN and SiteTalk, which he sold to Ruja Ignatova. Martin Himmelheber also points out that OneCoin Co-Founder Sebastian Greenwood was a Global Project Manager at SiteTalk.
Further, Frank Ricketts claimed in the court in Münster:
The following screenshot from the article shows Frank Ricketts between two of the three Steinkeller Brothers who were also involved in the OneCoin scam:
share-your-photo.com/5d9d95835b
nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-prozess-in-muenster-frank-r-ich-habe-nichts-vom-betrug-geahnt/406748
Hi just seeing what the latest is on the onecoine trial in Germany and if it’s still going on?
I haven’t heard anything.
@Bro
The court in Münster has told German journalist Martin Himmelheber that the trial will probably be delayed until November 2023.
Thanks Melanie!
Thanks for the information! I can’t seem to get much information about the trial! Let’s hope it actually goes ahead this time!
Were there any indication of how long in prison they could get if convicted?
@Bro
Unfortunately, the penalties for fraud or money laundering in Germany are very low. The Criminal Code mentions a maximum of 5 years. In particularly serious cases, the maximum penalty can be 10 years.
Details can be found here:
gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__263.html
gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__261.html
In the German press, this trial is rarely mentioned and there are no references to the possible punishment.
At the rate this trial is going the perps will die before the trial ends.
The trial has been continued: on Dec 8 the public prosecutor has asked 3,5 to 5 years prison sentences for Frank R., Manon H. and Martin B.
Again due to sickness the trial has been postponed to at least Dec 21.
nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-prozess-in-muenster-staatsanwealt-fordert-haftstrafen-zwischen-drei-und-fuenf-jahren/448329
Thanks for the updates! Hopefully they can wrap it up by the end of January.
The judge has spoken (Jan. 8)
nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-prozess-drei-muessen-ins-gefaengnis/452433
This means the appeal was denied or is that still going on?
see this article as well:
Nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-von-anfang-an-betrug/452767
All three defendants have now filed an appeal against the verdict.
Sorry, I hadn’t spotted your own article from Jan 9 about it
And I read it as a new update :D. We both take an L.