OneCoin promoters in Finland up for tax fraud and money laundering

7 Comments on “OneCoin promoters in Finland up for tax fraud and money laundering”

#1

Melanie from Germany

Aug 25th, 2019 at 5:14 pm  Melanie from Germany(Q)

Finns have lost hundreds of thousands of euros in currency fraud – have you been the victim of a scam?

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#2

Meatman

Aug 25th, 2019 at 5:26 pm  Meatman(Q)

Wahlroos biggest thief.



#3

Otto

Aug 26th, 2019 at 3:02 am  Otto(Q)

Actually Wahlroos hasn’t made his money from Finland any more than he has made it from elsewhere. He was “an ambassador” – i.e. an employee of Onecoin, paid some unknown share of the dough coming in globally.

The biggest Finland thiefs are probably facing tax fraud charges in the court now, except for the country director.



#4

Ivo

Aug 26th, 2019 at 1:51 pm  Ivo(Q)

Soon completely same will happen to slovenian promotors: Goran Novakovic, Rok Sincek, Andrej Novak, Bostjan Zajc, Andrej Bohinc and others.

The money stolen from the people, exchanged for shitty onecoin crap scam is a big equity now for all this scammers.

As we know, stolen money is transfered into BTC and other payment wallets worldwide. Some of the BTC wallets already under the investigation.

Cheers!



#5

Semjon

Nov 28th, 2019 at 8:28 pm  Semjon(Q)

The OneCoin case in Finland has been postponed to next spring due to what appears to be a broadening of the investigation. From a Finnish journalist:

The Ostrobothnia District Court was scheduled to hold a hearing today with regards to suspected #Onecoin related crimes. I have just received a reply from the District Court stating that these proceedings have been canceled due to a request for further investigation by the prosecutor. A new session day is sometime next spring.

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#6

Semjon

Jun 29th, 2021 at 2:37 am  Semjon(Q)

Finland’s OneCoin trial postponed again, this time because it waits final verdict from SDNY trial:

The lawsuits against the Onecoin recruits in Ostrobothnia are postponed again. The reason this time is that the prosecutor wants to wait for some verdicts from the United States.

No one even remembers when it was first thought that the trials against some Onecoin activists in the Vasa region would be held, but it has been several years since now.

The latest plan was that the three remaining trials would take place August 23-27 this year. That plan has now been scrapped.

Possibly the cause is still a bit unexpected. The Ostrobothnia District Court announces that the postponement has to do with future rulings from a court in the USA.

– In the US, trials are underway aimed at the central figures in Onecoin.

This has led to considerations on the part of the prosecutor as to whether it is expedient to handle the Onecoin cases here before the verdicts are given in the USA, says District Judge Anna-Maria Lindström at whose table the Onecoin cases are now.

– Hopefully Onecoin’s real nature will be sorted out there. Because in Finland it has not been investigated in depth.

The initiative comes from specialist prosecutor Heidi Röblom, who is running the charges (including gross tax fraud and gross money laundering). In a way, the postponement is perhaps unexpected because it would be perfectly fine to try the cases in a Finnish courtroom without caring about the rulings in the United States.

But Röblom has something in the binoculars.

– I do not want to go into details but what I am looking for is to get information about Onecoin’s operations and how it is defined. What they have done in Onecoin and what conclusions can be drawn from the rulings in the USA, says Röblom.

The verdicts you are waiting for are three. One of them concerns a person named Gilbert Armenta who has been identified as one of the many brains behind Onecoin’s money laundering. He is also charged with extortion. His verdict is set for July 14.

As for verdict number two, the defendant is the lawyer Mark Scott who is suspected of having laundered huge sums of Onecoin money via various shell companies. His verdict falls on September 15.

But it is judgment number three that is the subject of the greatest interest. The accused is called Konstantin Ignatov and is the brother of Onecoin’s founder, the later missing Ruja Ignatova.

When Ignatova went up in smoke in October 2017, it was her brother Konstantin who took over the Onecoin network. Since his arrest, Ignatov has cooperated with US authorities and admitted his crimes.

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This is Ruja Ignatova at the inauguration of Onecoin’s headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria. The company managed to buy the building through strange transactions through a number of subsidiaries.

During the investigation, Ignatov has helped blow up the leadership phalanx within Onecoin. It is with information he has provided to US authorities that a large number of people have been caught.

As Ignatov cooperates, he will also be protected by US authorities should anyone wish to take revenge for the whistleblowing.

What the people in the US get for punishment is not of any real importance when it comes to the trials in Vaasa. But specialist prosecutor Röblom hovers a bit on the case when she is asked what it is she really wants.

Are you waiting for the verdict to see if it is stated in black and white that Onecoin was a ponzi scheme?

– The question there is probably what is called ponzi fraud and what is a common fraud. It is probably more of a semantic question, says Röblom.

But can it affect or extend the prosecution in the current criminal cases in Vaasa if Onecoin is determined as fraud?

– It can at least affect the case.

A person has already been sentenced in this tangle to probation. Does it change anything?

– It was before my time, I was not involved then. But that’s something I’ll have to think about later.

If it is established in the USA that Onecoin was a criminal activity, the focus may change to some extent in the trials in Vaasa.

It is conceivable that the prosecutor then begins to consider whether the accused knew or should have realized that the activity was illegal. In that case, the deeds can in theory be seen as intentional and that one deliberately and intentionally misled those one recruited.

The suspected crimes in the three Onecoin trials are suspected to have taken place in Vaasa during the years 2015–2018. The timing of the treatment is still a bit open.

– As I see it, we are talking about next year but it is difficult to give a date. We will establish it when the verdicts come from the USA, says district judge Lindström.

All parties have agreed to this new suspension, ie all the accused and also the tax administration who are the plaintiffs. ”

(machine tranlsation from: murobbs.muropaketti.com/threads/onecoin-uusi-pyramidihuijaus-krp-rikosta-voidaan-arvioida-luotettavasti-vasta-myoehemmin.1197240/page-881#post-1718772489 ; original source: osterbottenstidning.fi/Artikel/Visa/485708)



#7

Oz

Jun 29th, 2021 at 9:34 am  Oz(Q)

Damn. Everyone out here waiting for Sebastian Greenwood and Frank Schneider’s guilty verdicts.