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The former head of OneCoin recruitment in Uganda has been arrested. The Criminal Investigations Department arrested John Mwambusya on January 30th. Mwambusya stands accused of stealing more than $850,000 from over one thousand Ugandans.

Two days ago Frank Schneider lost his extradition appeal. The decision, handed down by the Nancy Appeals Court, provides insight into Schneider’s US indictment.

The Nancy Appeals Court has approved Frank Schneider’s extradition. Following preliminary granting to Schneider’s extradition, he filed an appeal last July. Schneider’s legal team argued that, if extradited to the US, Schneider would be denied “fundamental rights”. The Nancy Appeals Court rejected this argument.

He looks like a Boris CEO. He sounds like a Boris CEO. But OneCoin’s latest executive appointment isn’t a Boris CEO. Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, Ventsislav Zlatkov is more of a puppet CEO.

The “mastermind” behind OneCoin recruitment in Thailand has been arrested, again. Mana Jumuang (aka Mr. Kay), was first arrested on charges of fraud in 2019.

On December 15th, Mark Scott finally filed his case for a OneCoin retrial. Scott was convicted in November 2019 and seeks to overturn his conviction. Arguments raised by Scott in favor of a retrial focus on two instances perjury by witness Konstantin Ignatov, and how the perjury allegedly impacted the jury’s guilty verdict.

Following a string of failed schemes, Kari Wahlroos is back with his own social media platform. On the backend it’s the usual cryptocurrency shenanigans. In a video uploaded to FaceBook on December 4th, Wahlroos had a sook over the COVID-19 pandemic “limiting your life”.

When Ruja Ignatova disappeared in late 2017, her brother Konstantin Ignatov took over as CEO of OneCoin. When Konstantin was arrested in March 2019, Veselina Valkova stepped up to run OneCoin.

The DOJ has recovered around 20 GB of data from Sebastian Greenwood’s seized prison phone. To date there’s been no indication what that data entails, or what Greenwood was up to. Now Jon Levy, an attorney representing several OneCoin victims, provides insight into what Greenwood’s phone was used for.

In what may wind up being a predictable judicial mistake, Frank Schneider has been released to home detention. Schneider will be subject to 24/7 monitoring and home confinement, pending a decision on extradition to the US on January 19th.