OneCoin criminal indictment sentencing dates
Given the amount of OneCoin scammers that have been indicted in the US, it’s difficult to keep track of the upcoming sentencing dates.
Throw in the pandemic and constant resetting of dates and… well, you’d be forgiven for losing track of who’s being sentenced when.
It’s my job to keep track of these things and when someone asks me even I draw a blank.
Following one such occurrence earlier today, I thought it’d be a good idea to put together the current dates in a separate article.
That means I can point anyone looking for the dates here, as well as being able to update the dates as they’re constantly pushed back.
As it stands three indicted OneCoin scammers have sentencing dates;
- Gilbert Armenta (money laundering) – July 14th, 2021
- Mark Scott (money laundering) – June 14th, 2021
- Konstantin Ignatov (OneCoin CEO after Ruja disappeared, cooperating with US authorities) – May 14th, 2021
Ruja Ignatova, Sebastian Greenwood and David Pike have been indicted.
- Ruja Ignatova (OneCoin founder) – remains at large
- Sebastian Greenwood (OneCoin second in command, extradited from Thailand) – case is ongoing
- David Pike (money laundering) – case is ongoing, plea control date scheduled for June 4th, 2021
I’ll be updating these dates if they change, so if you’re reading this consider the above dates accurate.
Update 20th October 2020 – Gilbert Armenta’s sentencing has been postponed to January 29th, 2021.
As per a letter motion filed by the DOJ on October 16th;
The parties are in continuing discussions regarding various forfeiture issues, among other sentencing-related issues.
Update 11th November 2020 – Due to his ongoing cooperation with authorities, Konstantin Ignatov’s sentencing has been scheduled for May 14th, 2021.
Update 18th November 2020 – Due to ongoing forfeiture negotiations, Mark Scott’s sentencing has been postponed to February 25th, 2021.
Update 29th January 2021 – Following a January 27th request for adjournment, Gilbert Armenta’s sentencing has been rescheduled for April 2nd, 2021.
Update 9th February 2021 – Ongoing forfeiture negotiations has seen Mark Scott’s sentencing delayed again to April 14th.
Update 17th February 2021 – Due to COVID-19 related “access restrictions”, David Pike’s plea hearing has been rescheduled to June 4th.
Update 25th March 2021 – Mark Scott’s sentencing has been once again delayed to June 14th.
Update 3rd April 2021 – Due to ongoing “forfeiture and other sentencing related issues”, Gilbert Armenta’s sentencing trial has once again been postponed to July 14th.
Thanks to WhistleBlowerFin for providing a list of the current dates. Made it easy to put this together.
@Oz,notice that Konstantin has no actual sentencing date yet. That’s another control conference date of his sentencing.
As Konstantin is a Government witness testifying against Onecoin, his sentencing date is obviously tied now at least to the Sebastian Greenwood case, so no doubt on November 11 we will get another control date for Konstantin.
And if Ruja will be catched soon, we won’t see Konstantin’s sentencing for quite a long time. But even currently Konstantin’s sentencing goes obviously well in to the next year, as Greenwood’s pre-trial #2 is on December 18th.
A couple of typos slipped by you, there, Oz. In the 2nd sentence, “whose” should be “who’s” (who is).
5th sentence starts “That was,” and I think you meant “That way.”
(I swear, if I tried to publish as much as you do every day, there’d be a LOT more bobbles. Keep up the good work!)
read that two out of three OneCoin criminal indictments are money laundring charges…
Oz If I also read a quote from your article Cloud Horizon Review: SiteTalk and Orientum scams combined;
Those two combined and I wonder if it isn’t time that Frank Ricketts is arrested!
Thanks for the clarification Fin.
@Andy Don’t sweat it. WordPress used to have this “After the Deadline” feature, it helped a lot with grammar/spelling editing.
They canned it last year citing native browser support for alternative extensions. Stupid decision on their part.
I catch most of the spelling mistakes but occasionally grammatical errors get through. I appreciate the extra set of eyes!
There has been developments in the OneCoin Class Action case too.
More defendants were added. The Plaintiffs sued Gilbert Armenta and BNY Mellon and re-sued Sebastian Greenwood:
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.515064/gov.uscourts.nysd.515064.124.0.pdf
The defendants have to respond to the Amendend Complaint by Oct 26, 2020.
The Amended Complaint contains some new details — largerly based on Konstantin’s co-operation — such as Sebastian Greenwood paying bribes to Japanese ministers:
And how Sebastian had control over OneCoin’s “coin creation” and how he oversaw Simon Le’s scamming activities in USA:
and in order to be able to scam in USA and evade law enforcement, Simon Le instructed his victims to use VPN:
Thanks, I did see the amended complaint filing. I’ll check it for updates versus the original filing tomorrow. Today I just didn’t have enough time.
@Semjon
Using VPN has also been recommended by some OneCoin scammers to manipulate the idiotic petition “FREE KONSTANTIN IGNATOV”!
share-your-photo.com/f6fdebbcd3
As a reminder: An old screenshot from free-konstantin.org
share-your-photo.com/bdf17bed13
Today the page no longer exists.
share-your-photo.com/a90b95c438
Cordel KingJayms James started this extraordinarily successful petition on October 16, 2019. In a whole year 19,673 devout OneCoiners have expressed the wish that the OneCoin fraudster Konstantin Ignatov is set free!
Really fantastic, a bombastic relation to the ~ 3.7 million members worldwide mentioned by the OneCoin scammers in Sofia.
share-your-photo.com/191ebd09d1
We also shouldn’t forget how OneCoin scammer Cordel KingJayms James promoted for his idiotic petition!
BTW, Simon Le isn’t pimping OneLink anymore, as alleged in the Amended Complaint.
He has moved on to a new Ponzi called GSN – Global Sponsorship Network:
youtube.com/watch?v=gVQoMzwm_JU
mygsn.com
A new scam trick seems to be that they apparently managed to get real Money Service Business licenses from USA(FinCen) and Canada (FINTRAC) for their background company “GSN Technologies Inc” . Will not last long if someone alerts these authorities.
And as per latest news Kent K. who abandoned the ship to build Dagcoin with Clown Igor, has now abandoned that shitty coin to create his own company with a worthless coin. His statement says he stopped 9 months ago already to work for them.
I’ve read plenty of messages where people from India, Pakistan and other countries in Asia wish him luck, but some ask where and how they can cash in their Dagcoins! NOT of course.
Where have we heard and seen this before? Looks like a few more million people will have lost their savings and money.
I am surprised with everything going on with Onecoin, no official instances digged deeper yet when it comes to the companies where all the top scammers went to such as Dagcoin Crowd1 BE Geton iML Kuvera Jubilee etc.
You don’t need to be a brain surgeon to see that all these companies are based on start investments (to pay bonuses) and monthly retainers more than bringing value to end users let’s say even bringing an end-user product.
Their distributors are making 90% or more of their income based on new sign-ups or monthly fees to keep the service, rather than using the end product or service themselves to generate money.
Now with the economical crisis related to Covid-19 hundreds of thousands of people are dragged through Zoom webinars into these investment deals and they will lose their last savings.
Gilbert Armenta’s sentencing delayed to Jan 2021.
The new OneCoin logo?
share-your-photo.com/b398a33525
Source: traderviet.com/threads/cac-dai-dien-cua-onecoin-dang-bi-bat-dong-loat-tai-nhieu-quoc-gia.25734/
The article links to two posts on behindmlm.com at the end.
share-your-photo.com/18e16003f3
europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/0421%252F2020/html/Petition-No-0421%252F2020-by-Jonathan-Levy-%2528US%2529-on-the-need-to-set-up-a-crypto-assets-fund-for-crypto-crime-victims
Instead of fraud compensation funds, how about launching an European Citizens’ Initiative (europa.eu/citizens-initiative/home_en) to propose a directive to make all MLMs illegal EU-wide? What could a better way to damage MLM industry than to ban it in world’s biggest economic area?
It only needs 1 million votes and European Comission willing to take action. 🙂 But with good campaigning, I think it could be done.
So how show we start driving this forward? 😉
@Semjon
The MLM industry has a strong lobby. The Federal Network Marketing Association (Bundesverband Network Marketing), which supposedly represents the interests of German networkers, has existed in Germany for many years. On the website
bvnm.de/serioese-network-marketing-firmen-deutschland
18 companies are named that should be reputable.
In March 2020, the German magazine NETWORK-KARRIERE complained that only around 1% of the German population was active in network marketing. That would be ~ 830,000 people. For comparison: In the United States, 6% of the population is said to be active in network marketing.
Overall, MLM does not have a good reputation in Germany. Anyone who defends MLM in Germany likes to use this name: Professor Dr. Zacharias. This “professor” is a strong lobbyist with his own website:
zacharias-akademie.com
His latest book is: “Network Marketing PRO & KONTRA”
Another lobbyist group in Germany is the Federal Association of Direct Selling (Bundesverband Direktvertrieb e.V.) with the website direktvertrieb.de, which however only plays a minor role in network marketing.
What role does MLM play in other European countries? Do you know more?
Konstantin has received a May 2021 sentencing date.
I saw a screenshot of this Letter on InnercityPress Twitter account, but can’t find it in Konstantin’s Case Docket.
twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1326232786731212800/photo/1
I saw that filing on Konstantin’s personal case docket.
I think most of the filings show up on Mark Scott’s docket but I check the individual ones just in case.
The sense of waste just devastates me. So many lives have been ruined, fortunes stolen and for what?
Assuming the court in May is impressed with his cooperation and generously only gives him ten years… By that time he will have served just over two years.
A Federal sentence requires 85% time served so he’ll face about another seven.
He has a forfeiture order, his family ages, friends drift off, etc. Assuming the court takes into account his dishonesty when arrested, the scam lives on, not much can be recovered, etc, and he could face fifty like happens sometimes after cooperating.
And still they carry on at OL.
@Oz and everybody who has Pacer accout. Please use the Recap plugin so that the documents end up also in Courtlistener and help everybody to have access to the actual documents.
free.law/recap/
I just saw that the Order is now available on CourtListener as well.
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.516497/gov.uscourts.nysd.516497.336.0_1.pdf
I think I’ve addressed this before, I have security concerns with using Recap.
Mark Scott’s sentencing delayed to February 2021.
David Pike guilty plea delayed to March 4, 2021.
Dayum, everyone and everything getting delayed :(.
edit: Oh this is a control date, not sentencing. Thought I missed something phew!
Has anyone qualified checked on the Rule 29 Motion and Forfeiture opposition by Scott? Seems to have very strong arguments.
Also seems that he had zero connection to the US victims. He was not charged with scamming people at all. Any attorneys on here that can shed some light?
I went over it in early Dec. Didn’t bother covering it.
https://behindmlm.com/mlm/regulation/doj-wants-mark-scott-to-forfeit-392-million-dollars/#comment-431519
Same failed arguments that led to Scott’s conviction. Probably going to see him get steamrolled in court (again).
Armenta’s rescheduling to April added.
Mark Scott’s sentencing is about to be delayed again….to somewhere mid April.
courtlistener.com/docket/7829201/358/united-states-v-scott/
Yeah, Scott’s sentencing scheduled now for April 14th.
I lost count how many time this has been already delayed.
innercitypress.com/onecoinicp7scottdelay020421.html
@Oz, could you update Mark Scott sentencing to April 14th.
Here is the judge order:
courtlistener.com/docket/7829201/359/united-states-v-scott/
Done, thanks.
Aaand the other guys want delays as well..
The already delayed guilty plea of David Pike, set for March 4, is requested by him – with the US’ consent – to be move back yet another 90 days.
innercitypress.com/onecoinicp8scottdelaypike020921.html
EVERYBODY GETS DELAYS! DELAYS ARE THE NEW CANDY!
FFS! Hold the bastards accountable, finally!
Do the Feds NOT realize the criminals are still chumming the bottom of the gene pool?
Personally, I think all these delays are due to them wanting to work out a plea deal.
If the talks are looking like a deal can be reached, the government will go along with the delay to determine if a deal can be reached.
A lot cheaper than having to go to court. But if the prosecution thinks this is just a ploy to delay the inevitable and they aren’t serious about a deal, they will stop it and go to trial.
@Oz, please update.
David Pike’s plea hearing is adjourned to June 4, 2021.
Only reason for the delay mentioned is the Covid crisis.
courtlistener.com/docket/16817637/361/united-states-v-scott/
Thanks for the update Fin.
You guessed it… Another delay!
Mark Scott sentencing about to be adjourned from April 14 to the week of June 7.
courtlistener.com/docket/7829201/362/united-states-v-scott/
Mark Scott sentencing is adjourned to June 14, 2021:
courtlistener.com/docket/7829201/364/united-states-v-scott/
Sebastian Greenwood case telephone status conference which was supposed to be on Friday, is now scheduled for May 19:
courtlistener.com/docket/17059467/365/united-states-v-scott/
Sine die = indefinitely.
He’s really taking the piss isn’t he.
The poor guy is at death’s door…
…is what he’d like us all to believe.
Personally I think they’re stuck trying to find his testicles.
Tough gig…
Tough gig, indeed. And thanks a lot: now you have me picturing the folds of fat…down…there…(shudder).
Scott’s wife was reportedly wailing when he was pronounced guilty. Those weren’t tears of despair.
I wish this was an April fools, but I don’t think it is..
Gilbert Armenta sentencing delayed to July 14, 2021.
twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1377703592845529091/photo/1
How do you have forfeiture and sentencing issues going on for so long?
What are they doing, sending one word emails back and forth?
One thing we have to consider is that the Mayor of New York City and the Governor of New York are idiots when it comes to COVID19 rules and regulations. They make it up as they go along. They talk out of both sides of their mouths and arses at the same time.
While Federal Courts in other states and cities are getting back to normal, not in New York or New York City.
I don’t know if this has hit the press yet, but FEMA has been quietly mobilizing as many first-responders as they can to be ready to rapidly converge on New York City in particular. They’re seeing numbers that indicate a flood of serious cases is in the offing.
Publicly, they’re supporting vaccination efforts, but privately they’re preparing for the excrement to impact the spinning blades of a rudimentary air handling appliance.
In the words of one EMT: “They’re offering to pay us a lot. They sound pretty nervous.”
A German newspaper has again published a very detailed article.
Obviously Konstantin Ignatov reads the numerous articles in this newspaper about the OneCoin scam, because he did not like a photo and complained about it.
share-your-photo.com/e6690fe0ce
2 photos from the article:
Sebastian Greenwood and Ruja Ignatova:
share-your-photo.com/ff181134a5
Juha Parhiala – Sebastian Greenwood – Ruja Ignatova:
share-your-photo.com/34c87885de
nrwz.de/premium/onecoin-anklage-gegen-karl-sebastian-greenwood-veroeffentlicht/312401
In Germany at least they keep this file alive for the public.
It still mind-boggles me on the other hand that Sebastien, and rightly so, is in jail, but the other whales who are on the pictures and stole tens of millions each, guys such as Juha, Igor, José and the 3 brothers are not bothered at all.
These guys are responsible for at least halve of the money lost.
I remember there was a warrant against José but I haven’t heard any of that lately and he seems to continue business, do presentations, selling his books on how to become a Millionaire and so on.
He is hiding in plain sight as we call it and nobody seems to care because they have 3 people in prison those that will return zero money to victims.
The money to recuperate is with the whales that are still out there to my opinion.
@Melanie nrwz.de didn’t realize that USA unsealed a week ago an old Greenwood indictment from October 2017 which has only 3 counts. So it is not really relevant new news.
The latest superseding indictment against Greenwood with 5 counts was unsealed a year ago already and was originally filed in February 2018.
The latest Greenwood indictment with 5 counts from February 2018, unsealed April 2020:
courtlistener.com/docket/17059467/265/united-states-v-scott/
BehindMLM article:
behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/sebastian-greenwoods-onecoin-fraud-indictment-details/
An old Greenwood indictment with 3 counts from October 2017, unsealed April 2021:
courtlistener.com/docket/17059467/367/united-states-v-scott/
@ WhistleBlowerFin
nrwz.de is a small newspaper that is only distributed regionally. This newspaper often reports on the deception of Ruja and Konstantin because these two con men grew up in this region (Schramberg).
But many other regional newspapers have also taken up the topic. Just two examples:
share-your-photo.com/0090b78876
schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.schramberg-ruja-ignatova-zockte-millionen-ab.a8af1b2b-75c5-4e7d-9b67-35ef0af88aa3.html
share-your-photo.com/ff2d6c47d0
badische-zeitung.de/wie-die-schramberger-kryptoqueen-menschen-aus-suedbaden-schaedigte–184598429.html
I put this down to European regulatory incompetence. They were abysmally incompetent while OneCoin was running, why would that change now?
@Fin
I too saw that article and did the excited/straight face guy meme.
Was like “oh sweet, new indictment! Hey waitaminute… this is a reupload :(“.