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) – January 29th, 2021
- Mark Scott (money laundering) – February 25th, 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 March 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.
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!