OneCoin’s Mark Scott denied motion for new trial
Following his conviction in November 2019, OneCoin money launderer Mark Scott filed for an acquittal or new trial in February 2020.
With a decision on that motion pending, new information regarding Konstantin Ignatov perjuring himself saw Scott file a supplemental motion for a new trial in August 2021.
(Scott) argued that, had the jury known that Konstantin lied … it would not have credited Konstantin’s testimony nor, consequently, found Scott guilty of either offense.
On September 14th, 2023, Scott’s motion for a new trial was denied.
In handing down its decision, the court, based on evidence submitted by the DOJ, found Scott (right) committed bank fraud.
The Government identified that the transactions constituting bank fraud “include[d], but [we]re not limited to:” the July 2016 Fenero Funds loan to CryptoReal and the June and September 2016 investments into the Fenero Funds by Fates Group LLC, an entity controlled by Gilbert Armenta.
Scott argues none of the three transactions constituted bank fraud.
The Court holds that the Government proved all three were bank fraud.
Addressing Ignatov lying about disposing of his laptop, the court wrote;
Scott argues this newly discovered evidence of perjury entitles him to a new trial because Konstantin was a key government witness, the jury would not have credited any of Konstantin’s testimony had it known of this perjury, and it therefore would not have found Scott guilty.
The Government, however, argues that Konstantin’s testimony regarding the disposition of the laptop—which occurred after Scott’s crimes—was not material to the jury’s verdict, and Scott extensively impeached Konstantin at trial, so evidence of any perjury related to the laptop would merely have been cumulative.
At minimum, Scott must establish a “reasonable likelihood” that Konstantin’s perjury regarding the laptop could have affected the jury’s verdict.
He has failed to do so.
The entirety of Konstantin’s testimony regarding the laptop was such a small part of his testimony as to be negligible—covering, at most, one or two pages of his testimony, which spanned over three hundred pages in the trial transcript.
Moreover, the disposition of the laptop was a purely collateral matter and was thus unlikely to have impacted the jury’s determination of Scott’s guilt.
In fact, given that Konstantin’s testimony focused primarily on the nature and conduct of OneCoin’s operations rather than of Scott’s participation, and given the overwhelming additional evidence that the Government presented at trial (as discussed above), the Court does not find that Konstantin’s testimony, even taken as a whole, was primarily determinative of Scott’s guilt.
Turns out lying about throwing away a laptop doesn’t negate laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for a criminal enterprise.
After dismantling the rest of Scott’s (mostly technical) arguments, the court concluded
none of Scott’s arguments satisfy his heavy burden under Rule 33 to convince the Court that “a real concern that an innocent person may have been convicted.”
Considering the totality of the circumstances, the Court does not find that “it would be a manifest injustice to let the guilty verdict stand.”
Rather, the Court is “satisfied that competent, satisfactory, and sufficient evidence in the record supports the jury verdict.”
Pending the outcome of his acquittal and retrial motions, Scott’s sentencing has been pending since February 2020.
Following the denial of said motions, Scott’s conviction stands and his case will now proceed towards sentencing.
Based on the charges he was found guilty of, Scott is facing up to fifty years in prison. Scheduling of Scott’s sentencing is expected to take place in the following weeks.
Update 20th September 2023 – Mark Scott’s sentencing has been scheduled for December 12th, 2023.
If Konstantin’s evidence was “not material” to Scott’s conviction, is that bad news for Konstantin seeing as he is supposed to really impress to get any leniency?
Also wasn’t Dilkinska placed in places she wasn’t at by Konstantin?
The fallout of Konstantin’s perjury with respect to his own agreement has yet to be made public. Maybe after Scott is sentenced they’ll get on with it.
Dilkinska was supposed to be in a meeting in Bulgaria but was in India at the time. Like the laptop it didn’t have any significant bearing on Scott’s guilty verdict.
Our Slovenian onecoin scammers Goran Novakovič, Andrej Novak, Robert Strniša, Rok Šincek,, Andrej Miklič, Damir Krauther, Boštjan Zajc, Aleš Oblak, Štefan Lopert and others just got publicity in Slovenia.
With all their lies and manipulations, they scammed around 15.000 investors with onecoin pyramid scheme. All of these scammers are hiding today as they are getting visitors at home, and calls for money to be returned.
I would like to send them greetings and promise that we the scammed people didn’t stop, but together, we force the authorities and media to do their job.
At the same time we informed USA authorities about these scammers, as they were actively scamming also USA citizens, living in Balkans.
@Andrej
Some of the scammers you mentioned are members of BALKAN ONEADRIA TEAM. The following screenshot shows:
Zoran Stupar – Damir Topic – Marinko Paric – Goran Novakovic
Stefco Kocoski – Dusan Torbica – Rok Sincek – Nikola Adzija
Branislav Curcic – Andrej Novak – Samir Hvalec – Zeljko Jukic
Davor Mesar – Zeljko Jankovic – Marko Kljaic
share-your-photo.com/f3dc2bcc03
mlmprevara.wordpress.com/2019/03/09/email-poruke-dobijene-putem-sudskog-naloga-otkrivaju-da-je-onecoin-bio-prevara-od-samog-nastanka/
Article updated with Scott’s December 2023 sentencing date.
New article by German journalist Martin Himmelheber.
share-your-photo.com/f11d4b3b77
nrwz.de/schramberg/onecoin-kein-neues-verfahren-fuer-ignatovas-geldwaescher-mark-scott/421343
There’s new hype in the scam due to company buying their own coins allegedly with 400k euros.
This of course proves according to some promoters like Erick Rueda that this is not a scam.
Contrary to the hype CoinMarketCap hasn’t listed ONE (OES token), but provides automatic data from OES/USDT Uniswap.
Mai Loan got 4500 euros exchanged in this “Dealshaker Pool” according to the “historic news”.
You can see the internal trades here:
coinmarketcap.com/dexscan/polygon/0x41a9e59b4e757d00e17bda0250c1a81bdcfb8ade/
Step 1: create tokens out of thin air.
Step 2: create Dealshaker account.
Step 3: use OneCoin investor funds you’ve stolen to buy tokens from yourself through some bullshit internal transaction.
Step 4: send out newsletter crapping on about hIsToRiC nEwS!
Step 5: go back to ignoring OneCoin executives being sent to prison.
OneCoin scammer Erick Rueda ONE (aka “LUXORTV“) from Panama uploaded the following video on December 3, 2023:
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youtube.com/watch?v=4QxKNhX8E34
As can be seen from the title of the video, the so-called “trade” on Uniswap was interrupted for several months.
Since September 2023, the so-called DSP (DealShaker Pool) has been repeatedly announced, in which DealShaker merchants can supposedly exchange their worthless ONE for USDT.
On the channel of Irina Basenius from Cologne in Germany, the “DealShaker Pool” was explained in this video from September 1, 2023 (partial quote):
share-your-photo.com/9c9182a409
youtube.com/watch?v=7RWcFQR9Tzw
Irina Basenius never answers questions on YouTube, but always links to her private Facebook group with 431 members.
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I doubt whether the merchants registered on DealShaker can actually improve their liquidity through Uniswap.
If a DealShaker merchant wants to exchange worthless ONE for USDT, he must submit a request in Sofia. Only merchants with high turnover on DealShaker can expect their application to be approved.
Video of OneCoin scammer Erick Rueda ONE from Panama from December 5, 2023.
share-your-photo.com/d0f9faf42d
youtube.com/watch?v=xV992HYYHAg
In this video, Erick Rueda ONE claims that a total of 230,000 euros (in USDT) were distributed to 800 different merchants in October 2023. They had to fill out a form beforehand and then wait for approval or rejection. They may never have received a response.
Allegedly, a button for DSP (DealShakerPool) will be integrated into DealShaker in the future so that merchants no longer have to submit the application by email. Nevertheless, the procedure described remains very confusing and time-consuming. Only merchants who are on the verge of insolvency will make use of this option.
At the end of the video, Erick Rueda ONE tells verbatim:
What did he mean by that?
Hayden Adams, the founder of Uniswap, describes his platform as follows:
coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/uniswap-v2/
The current price of Uniswap is quoted at $6.35 on coinmarketcap.com:
share-your-photo.com/4933286182
coinmarketcap.com/currencies/uniswap/
Prosecutors recommend at least 17 years in prison for OneCoin lawyer:
cointelegraph.com/news/prosecutors-recommend-prison-onecoin-lawyer
Yeah I saw that. Going to just wait for sentencing to report.
I don’t know how you can keep up with so many scammers!
Mark Scott was sentence for 10 years prison.
Of course he used his health condition to duck prison and will try to Appel.
How does he pay his legal team if he doesn’t have money. He is should be in jail like Greenwood.
I’m sure Scott hid some money somewhere.
That thought will keep him happy if he ever does get locked up. Asking to be out on bail pending an appeal?!
Checked the docket, nothing on it yet. Guessing the DOJ will put out a press-release Friday US time so I’ll wait for that.
Scott has delayed every step of legal proceedings. It was a given he’d further delay going to prison after sentencing.
Matthew Russell Lee on Twitter.
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twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1750604998885462417
PRESS RELEASE.
justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-law-firm-partner-sentenced-10-years-prison-laundering-400-million-onecoin-fraud
There it is, thanks.
Rok Šincek, Slovenian onecoin scammer owes me money from his scam. Rok, hide as you wish, but I am getting my money back!
@Tomaz
Is this the guy who cheated on you?
ibb.co/3m2WpfX
lokalno.svet24.si/2018/08/19/200765/clanek/DL_Portret_tedna___Rok_Sincek/
Rok Sincek and four other OneCoin scammers:
Dusan Torbica – Nikola Adzija – Branislav Curcic – Andrej Novak
ibb.co/m0fmB3Z
OneCoin scammer Rok Sincek in front of the scam center in Sofia.
ibb.co/Bfk03QL
nl.pinterest.com/rincek/
Isn’t Rok Sincek the guy who put his boat up for sale on DealShaker, “bought” it himself and used pics of the posting and him afterwards on the thing as “proof” that DealShaker works and people want 100% OneCoin?
@stevie do you have more information about Rok Šincek (and other slovenian onecoin scammers) and this particular event (selling and buying fake boat on DealShaker)? Would be very good if there are some prtsc..
Scammed people from Slovenia gathered this year and started claiming responsibility from onecoin scam leaders from Slovenia. At this point one big article is in the preparation and will be published here: onecoin-slovenija-prevaranti.blogspot.com
@Melanie, this is Rok Šincek ibb.co/Bfk03QL
Thank you, Janez
@ Janez
What would you like to know?
Oz will no doubt drop you my contact if you ask nicely enough. I don’t check the mail I use here to comment.
Keep up the good work
@ Janez
mlmprevara.com has been reporting on the OneCoin scammers from the Balkans for years. Rok Sincek was also mentioned.
Bela Kovacs wrote on Facebook on February 5, 2019 (partial quote):
ibb.co/5L0rYYH
facebook.com/groups/onecoinonelife/permalink/2324318030933686/?_rdr
The onecoinonelife group has 5,512 members.
BehindMLM reader sloscam also mentioned Rok Sincek and other Slovenian OneCoin scammers in connection with tax evasion on September 8, 2019.
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/onecoin-promoter-dumped-from-slovenian-blockchain-event/#comment-414332
@Stevie and @Melanie thank you for your information.
All information can be publicly shared, so if you have some links, pictures, print-screens, will be very welcoming.
We know Rok Šincek was one of the main leaders in onecoin scam, he was showing off with tons of EUR in cash, hid stolen cash in crypto, and other illegal businesses in Croatia and Slovenia.
We connected many scammed victims and made a complete report (also for all other onecoin scammers). You will be surprised about what is going on with these Slovenian ringleaders, they are a “brains” of many worldwide scams..
We belive there are few more “important” onecoin scammers on the list, first one is Andrej Novak, who actually brought onecoin to the balkan countries. Another one is Boštjan Zajc, who organized big groups in balkan countries and was important in the decisions on a strategic bases on how to trigger more victims.
One more deeply involved onecoin scammer is Andrej Bohinc, who continues to sell fake investment opportunities publicly, he participated in a political campaign of extreme right party named Resni.ca, whos leader is connected with many underground bandits, managing drugs and firearms in Slovenia.
Story is huge, and please expect it on blog soon. We informed all the media about scammers. As we are informed, police is deeply on the guys, but unfortunately Slovenia is very corrupted, so onecoin scammers are trying to stop prosecution from the process very hard (via their connections and with bribary).
We are preparing long interviews with victims and will be published this year.
Hopefully this time will be no excuse for the police and prosecutors to finish their job.
@Janez
Would you like to contact Rok Sincek directly? Here you can find his address in Zagreb (Croatia), his telephone number and his e-mail address.
ibb.co/1sx2yLG
berdin-haus.com/?page_id=809&lang=en
The domain berdin-haus.com was registered privately on September 7, 2023.
ibb.co/mtHLtHp
Are Drazen and Kristijan also former OneCoin scammers? Why are their full names not mentioned?
Rok Sincek‘s lies on Instagram can only be read by his 223 followers, because this account is private.
ibb.co/f9SSdNX
instagram.com/kiker233/
@Janez
The registered office of Rok Sincek‘s company BERDIN HAUS j.d.o.o. is in Zagreb (Croatia). However, the bank account of this company is located in Austria (RAIFFEISENBANK AUSTRIA d.d.). Why? It is absolutely unusual for a company to have its only bank account in another country.
ibb.co/5YD8C7C
companywall.hr/tvrtka/berdin-haus-jdoo/MMSxj3TC
Did Rok Sincek also hide the money he stole from OneCoin victims in Austria? Did he not want to pay tax on his profits in Slovenia?
BERDIN HAUS J.D.O.O. was founded on October 21, 2021 by Drazen Berdin, but Rok Sincek calls himself the CEO of this company on Instagram.
Note. A Croatian J.D.O.O. (limited liability company) can be founded with a minimum capital of EUR 2,700. In Germany, a minimum capital of 25,000 euros is required.
Drazen Berdin‘s former website saluscentar.com no longer exists and was last saved in the web archive on February 3, 2020. This company was also registered in Zagreb (Croatia).
web.archive.org/web/20200203010930/http://www.saluscentar.com:80/
The Salus Center Facebook account still exists, but is no longer updated.
ibb.co/9ZN70dK
facebook.com/saluscentar
A photo of Drazen Berdin:
ibb.co/mzdHHv8
facebook.com/photo?fbid=310597135758873&set=ecnf.100031869326072
@Melanie
Dražen Berdin was trying with scammy business here in Croatia – “healing” business, but didn’t succeed, as people recognized his intentions; now cooperating with Rok Šincek on job scams.
Berdin Haus d.o.o. has account in Croatian Raiffeisen (just name is added “Austria” to the bank, as it is its branch).
Finding Rok Šincek phone number is easy, as he is posting fake jobs on facebook all the time. He very easily block all “unnecessary” calls.
Further on, Rok Šincek created big (and looks like already collapsed) pyramid scheme with FX investments, named weconnect.si (website not readable to google search engines- we know why , and completely changed (scammers pictures and names not present on the website anymore).
There are 4 owners of the company Weconnect d.o.o. : Dino Ivanuša, Samo Verstovšek, Rok Šincek and scammy lady Barbara Pezdevšek
bizi.si/WECONNECT-D-O-O/kljucne-osebe/
Checking their financial statements with only 40eur net profits, and 30k income, looks like they canalize money via neobanks, crypto etc. This means they avoided responsibility.
Their FB account is deleted,and not accessible anymore – again, we know why.
Maybe scammed people can find them here: t.me/WeConnectOfficial
All scammers you can find on the pic here: facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224992569575299&set=ecnf.1048597605&locale=gn_PY
Here you can find how scammers are approaching victims (2 videos in slovenian language): youtube.com/channel/UCTzN8o0UIZxvbL_2dzCRxiw
@Janez
A German law firm warned of the criminal activities of WeConnect d.o.o. as early as May 2022.
si-recht.de/unsere-fachgebiete/ungewollte-vertraege/telefonische-kalt-akquise-der-weconnect-d-o-o/
The headquarters of this dubious company is in Tuzla in Bosnia-Herzegovina, but there is also a branch in Berlin.
ibb.co/3NG2FBZ
weconnect.ba/impressum.html
The website you mentioned, weconnect.si, has been in “maintenance mode” for many months. 😀
postimg.cc/V5pMcQR7
The domain weconnect.si was registered on November 30, 2021.
Unfortunately, I can’t find out when the domain weconnect.ba was registered. The website weconnect.ba has an average of 550 visitors per month and all visitors are from Germany.
ibb.co/17hh5HF
@Janez
A name doesn’t say much. We should know the faces of these crooks.
Dino Ivanuša (aka “Dino Dino” on Facebook):
postimg.cc/Tp8s3PqF
facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10223101583261823&set=ecnf.1048597605&locale=gn_PY
Samo Verstovšek:
postimg.cc/c6KcJDw6 and postimg.cc/VdKMBnj2
Rok Šincek:
postimg.cc/QFrLmKhk and postimg.cc/JGLKdNHn
Barbara Pezdevšek:
postimg.cc/0bnGWLqW
Weconnect.si scammers Samo Verstovšek, Rok Šincek, Dino Ivanuša, and Barbi, are already deleting all their posts about the scam.
Rok Šincek instagram before:
ibb.co/0QQvgwq
Rok Šincek instagram after (with 32 deleted posts about weconnect.si scam), and new job scam berdin-house.com (Rok Šincek was in such a hurry to change his data, he made a mistake in spelling “Ber(d)in House”)
ibb.co/JWYtcmr
Here is one fascinating video from dec 2018, Rok Šincek in Budapest explaining Onecoin scam in his bad English.
facebook.com/groups/onecoinonelife/permalink/2248906045141552/