OneCoin’s Ruja Ignatova indicted by New York grand jury
Two weeks ago BehindMLM ran a story regarding Mark Scott attempting to hide evidence from a grand jury.
The grand jury proceedings themselves were believed to pertain to other individuals related to OneCoin.
We can now cross Ruja Ignatova off that list, following the revelation she was indicted back in February.
Ignatova’s indictment was filed under seal on February 6th and only unsealed today, hence we’ve only learnt of it now.
As per her Southern District of New York indictment, Ignatova (right, also credited as “CryptoQueen”) has been charged with
- conspiracy to commit wire fraud;
- wire fraud;
- conspiracy to commit money laundering;
- conspiracy to commit securities fraud; and
- securities fraud
The criminal charges stem from Ignatova’s operation of OneCoin, a global Ponzi scheme believed to have bilked victims out of over $4 billion.
The indictment specifically pertains to over $1 billion laundered through “OneCoin related bank accounts”.
The indictment includes a forfeiture clause, requiring Ignatova to to turn over
any and all property, real and personal, that constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to the commission of said offenses, including but not limited to a sum of money in United States currency representing the amount of proceeds traceable to the commission of said offenses that (Ignatova) personally obtained.
In the likely event Ignatova’s assets have been squirreled away overseas, the US has stated intent to seek alternative recovery.
How much money Ruja Ignatova pocketed from OneCoin victims is unknown.
Based on our coverage of Ignatova’s public facing assets, we believe at a minimum the amount runs into the upper tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions.
News of Ignatova’s indictment coincides with the arrest of her brother, Konstantin Ignatov.
New York prosecutors have filed a separate criminal complaint against Ignatov.
Hello Igor Krnic? Could you please give some explanation for the following from the US Department of Justice press release:
justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-charges-against-leaders-onecoin-multibillion-dollar
Ps. @Igor Krnic – This is DIRECTLY FROM EMAIL EVIDENCE the FBI and DOJ were able to obtain between Ruja Ignatova and (presumably) Sebastian Greenwood.
In 2014 Ruja and Sebastian talked about their upcoming Onecoin project as “trashy coin”! LOL. Can’t make this stuff up.
justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1141986/download
p.7
This is done deal.
The court documents are absolute dynamite. No way there can be any excuses after that. Ruja’s emails they cite show that it was a cynical scam from the start.
I’m in the middle of putting together an article specifically on the emails (why I’ve left them out so far).
It’s taking a while because I have to categorize them and include the backdated bullshit they expose.
I’m beginning to really love the “Southern District of New York”. 😉
Ruja doesn’t look too happy in that pic.
Looking forward to reading them Oz. I’ve seen a few and the are really damning and stupid on their part to have kept them.
So much for Ruja’s over 200 IQ, the smartest woman in the world, astute businesswoman, and visionary. Funny how she didn’t envision this happening.
@Lynndel: She may not have an IQ of 200 but as I understand it she’s still at large. Unlike her brother who was gormless enough to set foot in the US.
Well, now all Ruja has to do is turn herself in, come back and go to trial and prove OneCoin is real and she has done nothing wrong.
This will shut up all those banks who are afraid of the competition, bitcoin lovers, and of course all of us haters; but more importantly show that the US Authorities don’t understand how brilliant OneCoin is and how it wsa going to save the people of the world.
If she was innocent she would, but she won’t. The authorities are going to have to hunt her down and bring her back to stand trial.
I am sure she will turn into human currency once in the slammer. Perhaps even become an atm machine.
@WhistleBlowerFin
Also Igor Krnic cleans his website and tries to cover tracks. Where did the advertisement for the fraud portal giftcodefactory.com of the OneCoin scammer Pascal-Rene André from Austria have stayed? 😀 Here is an old screenshot from January 1, 2019:
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The link to giftcodefactory.com has disappeared, the topic in the forum too! Why?
A message from Ruja?
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If that’s really Ruja’s message (big if), and I understood and interpreted it correctly, she barely touches the substance of the DoJ allegations, and her entire message seems to be about blaming and accusing many high level Bulgarian politicians for scandalous things.
She conntects her legal case to those politicians and says she is hiding from them, and looks forward getting to USA to talk about it.
In a way, that migh make sense as legal strategy, because with that kind of message, she might be trying to pursue a deal with DoJ, where she offers her info/co-operation about bigger crimes of others in exchange for leniency/immunity for her personal crimes.
But let’s see if it can be confirmed, it’s seems too wild to be true.
^ This blogspot blog is sited as “source”:
bulbg.blogspot.com/2019/03/blog-post_67.html
Yeah… sounds legit. 😀
Sounds Like bullshit…
That Bulgarian blog post reads a lot like
Anyway whether there is or isn’t a Bulgarian political protection racket has no bearing on Ruja Ignatova’s criminal charges.
“Politicians demanded protection money or they’d shut down my scam!” isn’t a defense for wire fraud, securities fraud etc. etc.
The only problem with that as a strategy is that the DoJ don’t give a shit about the Bulgarian mafia state.
They only care about crimes committed against the US or US citizens, and as far as those go, Ignatova is the top of the food chain.
Unless there are people above Ignatova laundering money from the US. But that seems a stretch. The blog post refers to European and Asian money.
My bet is that the blog is a total fabrication. It makes no sense even using scammer logic. If Ignatova was trying to escape the mob, she could have organised a OneCoin promotional event in the US and flung herself into the arms of US authorities on landing at any time before her disappearance.
In addition, the idea that she was an upstanding Bulgarian businesswoman who got caught up with the mob ignores that business with the German factory years and years before OneCoin. Then there was BigCoin which laid the groundwork for OneCoin.
My other bet is that Ignatova has been dead for months.
They seek her here, they seek her there.
Those Yankees seek her everywhere.
Is she in Heaven, or is she in Doha?
That demmed elusive Ignatova.
(with apologies to Baroness Orczy)
From the spark which launched the flame FB page:
facebook.com/Evgeni.Minchev.PR/posts/2405222416375645?comment_id=2405459173018636¬if_id=1552346262511724¬if_t=comment_mention
Actually OneCoin did their best to get people to show interest. Problem was anything charity related Ignatova might have done was quickly overshadows by the global $4.6 billion Ponzi scheme she was running.
any retraction by the financial times or whatever it was?
And Ignatova has never done anything charity related in her life, because donating other people’s money is not charity.
^this. So much this.
@Semjon
Ruja accuses three high Bulgarian politicians of being threatened or blackmailed by them:
Boyko Borissov is currently the Prime Minister of Bulgaria!
I think that is conceivable, because Bulgarian politicians have always had contacts with the mafia. Why does Ruja not pay the required 10 million euros? Anyone who steals billions like Ruja can easily donate 20 or 30 million euros to the Bulgarian party GERB!
If Ruja has lied, however, she will face serious problems with the Bulgarian mafia. But she can hire the two bodyguards (Rosen Dimitrov and Rumen Dimitrov) of Konstantin, he does not need any more in prison. 😀
PS: Incredible is Ruja’s description that her problems with the politicians began in mid-2014. The Mafia does not wait more than four years if she wants money.
It is not her, unless she has totally forgotten how to speak and write in English.
And Melanie is right, the Mafia doesn’t wait 4 years to collect. If they did, the interest they charge would have taken all of the money OC took in.
Besides all she had to do was contact the US Authorities and they would have gladly come and got her. After all she went into hiding in 2017 afraid for her life.
Remember, they only wanted uneducated and idiots in their program.
I would like to know what role Ruja’s husband Björn Strehl plays in the whole scam.
His website matunos.de is online again.
Supposedly he is dealing with real estate. Of course you can wash money very well, because the stolen millions disappear pretty much without a trace.
In Germany, too, Arab clans and the Italian mafia are washing their fortune.
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