Ruja Ignatova’s attorneys claim UK penthouse on her behalf
Attorneys representing OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova, have filed a claim on an otherwise abandoned £13.5 million penthouse in London.
As per a paywalled report from The Times,
Ignatova’s lawyers have made a formal claim to a four-bedroom £13.5 million penthouse in London, listing her as the property’s “beneficial owner” with Companies House.
The property is owned by Abbots House Penthouse Limited, an anonymous Guernsey shell company. It means that Ignatova’s name does not have to appear on land registry deeds or in public records.
Ignatova is currently on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list,
She’s also wanted by Interpol through an international warrant issued by Germany.
If you’re wondering how on Earth Ignatova still owns a penthouse in the UK, it’s part of ongoing negligence by UK authorities.
The FCA approving a known OneCoin money launderer for compliance will always be a classic.
With respect to Ignatova’s London penthouse though, the crown jewel of incompetence is probably the City of London Police abandoning their OneCoin investigation in 2019.
In passing the buck to US authorities, CoLP claimed
there are no UK based OneCoin assets for them to go after to compensate OneCoin victims.
Apparently a £13.5 million penthouse stuffed with valuable artwork and who knows what else, all purchased with stolen OneCoin Ponzi funds, doesn’t qualify as a “UK-based OneCoin asset”.
As for the Companies House shell company malarkey, BehindMLM has been calling out UK shell company fraud for years.
The rise of crypto and scam-capital of the world Dubai has taken some of the heat off Companies House, but it’s still just as easy as ever to defraud consumers out of millions through bogus UK shell companies.
I presume once UK authorities rubber-stamp Ruja Ignatova taking back her penthouse, it’ll be liquidated and the proceeds laundered abroad.
Whether the FBI steps in and forces their UK counterparts to do their jobs again remains to be seen.
Update 28th January 2023 – Interesting update from Jamie Bartlett and the BBC;
But now, neither the UK police nor Ms Ignatova herself are behind the sale of her Kensington pad. Instead, it is prosecutors in the north-west German city of Bielefeld, the BBC can reveal.
Ignatova had to be named as the owner of the apartment due to a recently introduced UK law. As I understand it though the proceeds of the sale will go to German authorities.
From there nobody seems to know exactly what will happen.
Why German authorities didn’t disclose they had received permission to list Ignatova’s apartment is unclear.
Perhaps they thought an apartment owned by someone on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list going up for sale wouldn’t go unnoticed (???).
Those photos you show of the property are the same as a flat that’s currently on the market in the UK.
knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residential/for-sale/abbots-house-st-mary-abbots-terrace-kensington-london-w14/ken012105012
That’s interesting. It’d take what, five minutes for UK authorities to get to the bottom of the shenanigans?
Amazing tribute to incompetence that it hasn’t been seized yet.
edit: it’s def the same place. If you click “more images” on Image 7 you can see the Ruja Ignatova plate still on the kitchen counter.
Video with 328,269 views since November 2021:
youtube.com/watch?v=ORgSEjQtMrE
Knight Frank, the selling agents of that flat must have carried out due diligence and anti-money laundering checks before taking on that property.
It makes you wonder what they found and what they were shown.
Would like to get some of this back!
Anyone have the details on who is actually the Seller, I will hit them with a legal claim.
Full article available via this link:
thetimes.co.uk/article/7f8fc14c-9360-11ed-8b99-f233af7a7956?shareToken=ee78cfabdcf36bc476c63139dfe70c1e
The law firm representing Ruja’s shell company has been notified.
Of what? That they’re representing a criminal on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list?
Surely they’re not that daft?
Ruja must be stupider than anyone has given her credit for.
Any lawyer representing her and trying to secure precedes of crime when there are claims for everything from unpaid bills, outstanding taxes, outright fraud, etc, is going to have to spill what they know or be an accessory. Attorney-Client privilege doesn’t go that far.
I guess the cash she got away with is running out and that slow burn is hurting
German journalist Martin Himmelheber found this entry in the British register:
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find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OE012538/persons-with-significant-control
The law firm has been notified that they just did a SRA sanctioned AML check off on the proceeds of organized crime.
Let’s see what they say, the form looks like it could have been forged or the law firm has some explaining to do to the SRA.
What are the OneCoin scammers in Sofia planning now? OneCoin scammer Erick Rueda ONE from Panama uploaded this video two days ago:
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PS: Video with subtitles.
PLAN PERFECTO commented:
Dagmar Jung, a German businesswoman from Cologne, commented on the video thus:
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Panama is the blueprint on which Dubai was built. No wonder how many South American and Mexican scammers end up “rebooting” their schemes there.
Former Gen Zoe collaborators moved there and a few even switched to Omega Pro (And thus it gave us yet another excuse for Cositorto).
clarin.com/sociedad/mano-mano-leonardo-cositorto-prision-tirado-cierto-enriqueci-_0_yhXrXQuOov.html
@Seba
The password reset was already announced in the last newsletter from Sofia.
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us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=cf9659fd672fe664d487e7e1b&id=e712c0c8dd
this sounds like a cover for an exit.
“The exact time of the update will not be disclosed for security reasons”.
That sounds 100% legit and reiterates what Konstantin said about “this network would not work with intelligent people”.
OneCoin scammer Erick Rueda ONE from Panama links to the following websites in a new video:
exodus.com and trezor.io
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Who speaks Spanish and can translate the content?
Wajahat Umar commented:
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CNN just did a retrospective on Ruja, could an arrest be imminent?
cnn.com/2023/01/22/business/ruja-ignatova-cryptoqueen-fbi-most-wanted-cec/index.html
Unfortunately the CNN author writes:
There is no indication that the scam currently continues as ONE Ecosystem.
OneCoin scammer Erick Rueda ONE from Panama announces the following video on YouTube. The broadcast date is today at 5 pm in Germany.
youtube.com/watch?v=8egoLMH5IFI
The video was short and superfluous. The content was taken from the last newsletter from Sofia.
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What “system” is the author talking about? OneCoin? OneLife? OneLife 2.0? ONE Ecosystem? The “system” is so confusing that no one can bring order.
Why don’t the scammers in Sofia mention the amount of the service fee? 100 or 200 or 300 euros? Per account, of course…
us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=cf9659fd672fe664d487e7e1b&id=0768508880
After the password reset (see comment #16), the next step is to clean up the accounts. Those who forget or lose their data or passwords have to pay or lose access to their accounts. This is a new form of theft. Not directly, but indirectly.
Also, we should not forget that many accounts are already frozen. In an old newsletter it was announced that every account will be frozen if the owner has not logged in for more than a year.
I hope every IMA has fun solving these problems! 😀
I have known that the highly intelligent OneCoin IMAs will have problems. I quote some comments.
David Bandes asks:
Juan Pablo M R asks:
Jhonny Osorio asks:
Monica Cheretz asks:
Gust infinito asks:
tania mentealegre complains:
LINO REYES asks:
R S.A. demands:
Leonardo Monsalve asks:
Jorge Pino asks:
ROGELIO CHIN asks:
eduardo tiran asks:
diego mora asks:
Erchrom Chromer asks:
ELY R SERVIN asks:
It is interesting that Erick Rueda ONE does not answer a single question. Why? Usually he answers comments under his numerous videos. Some questions have now been answered by Carmen Lyster and other commentators. The daily brainwashed Juan Jose Mijangos claimed, among other things:
The few comments I quoted prove that many OneCoin IMAs will fail to get clarification.
My opinion: buying Ruja’s worthless “educational packages” was much easier!
youtube.com/watch?v=8egoLMH5IFI
More “intelligent” questions for Erick Rueda ONE from Panama. 🙂
A. Santos:
Manuel Guillermo Maury:
abdelhamid abderrahmane:
Alfonso Strauss Huashuayo Silva:
Juan Pablo M R:
Erick Rueda ONE has now answered many questions himself. In another video yesterday he tried to explain how the OneCoin IMAs could solve their problems.
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youtube.com/watch?v=eTyj0ZAkx2o
The video is not really helpful! Many idiots have bought multiple packages, used different names or nicknames with different email addresses and different passwords.
Erick Rueda ONE also doesn’t know how much money support will charge for account clarification after April 1, 2023.
Article updated with interesting twist; apparently the beneficiary of Ignatova’s OneCoin apartment sale is German authorities.
Article by German journalist Martin Himmelheber.
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nrwz.de/schramberg/staatsanwaltschaft-bielefeld-will-ruja-ignatovas-penthouse-verkaufen/387658
Knight Frank’s offer has been deleted very quickly. The following screenshot from the web archive is from January 16, 2023 at 10:13 a.m.
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Is the support department in Sofia no longer working or has “CEO” Ventsislav Zlatkov dismissed all employees? Is there a connection with the password reset that was announced for this month? Comment dated January 23, 2023:
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Addition to comment #27
A November 3, 2021 BBC article included the following photos of Ruja’s penthouse:
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Source for all 5 photos: bbc.com/news/stories-59062959
OneCoin scammer Erick Rueda ONE from Panama is attracting more and more subscribers to his YouTube channel. On December 31, 2022, there were 8,550, today there are already 9,280.
Video from today.
Of course, Mauricio Garavito from Colombia does not answer any of the questions asked concretely either. He refers to the event in Vietnam from February 17 to 19, 2023, where “new” products will be introduced – probably ONE VITA, ONE VOYAGE, ONE FOREX, DealShaker, etc.
Erick Rueda ONE asks specifically:
Mauricio Garavito answers:
When asked about the Exchange, Mauricio Garavito replies:
Mauricio Garavito still mentions the “legal opinion” from Finland and claims that the legal concept in Switzerland will stop and in parallel three other legal concepts are being worked on in other countries.
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youtube.com/watch?v=y_czXhVwzVc
PS: Can someone lend me some money? My polygraph blew up during this interview and none are offered on DealShaker…. 🙁
The First German Television Program (ARD) uploaded a short video to YouTube a few minutes ago:
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Addition to comment #26
German journalist Martin Himmelheber has updated his article.
The Bielefeld prosecutor’s office has already asserted its rights to Ruja’s penthouse in November 2021. It is not yet clear whether the proceeds from the sale of the penthouse can be used to compensate German victims of the OneCoin scam.
Also shown is a reminder to Ruja through her RavenR Capital Limited in London for not paying Council Tax:
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nrwz.de/schramberg/staatsanwaltschaft-bielefeld-will-ruja-ignatovas-penthouse-verkaufen/387658
I saw a headline in Google’s news feed the other day that said “Cryptoqueen Resurfaces” alongside a picture of Ruja. But it looked to be a mere rehash of this story, or maybe a similar tale about a different property.
It certainly wasn’t about Ruja showing up in person, clickbait headline notwithstanding.
Addition to #33:
Clickbait headline example:
NOLINK://nypost.com/2023/01/28/ruja-ignatova-found-alive-after-vanishing-5-years-ago/
@Andy
Yeah NY Post created this headline and other news sites and the crypto spam blogs all ran with it.
Ruja hasn’t been found alive, it’s all clickbait.
I went back to the NYP site and read the article’s comments section; there were plenty of complaints about the clickbait headline.
Also of note: the Post was 2 weeks late to cover this story. You totally scooped the mainstream news.
Addition to comment #30.
Why did OneCoin scammer Erick Rueda ONE from Panama delete this comment? The commenter called himself OneFamily.
Source was youtube.com/watch?v=y_czXhVwzVc
After I copied the text, I wanted to take a screenshot, but unfortunately the comment was already deleted.
As usual on Erick Rueda ONE’s YouTube channel, most commenters thank him for the latest lies and announcements. But the number of critics is increasing and Erick Rueda ONE has deleted more comments.
The following comments are still readable.
Political Debate With Mr Ad wrote:
wattis wrote:
Rodrigo Salvador Encalada Aravena Chile wrote:
Wajahat Umar wrote:
Jamil Massaad still believes that OneCoin is a real cryptocurrency:
Of all the scammers defending OneCoin, Juan Jose Mijangos from Mexico is the worst! I found two photos of him:
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Note: The shown website juanjosemijangos.com does not exist and was never saved in the web archive!
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So far, we knew of only two old legal opinions for OneCoin.
The first opinion was prepared by attorney Martin Breidenbach from Munich in September 2014.
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drive.google.com/file/d/1_DRvkCFzpu2CA2XZ8ljfLOG6UpMLgfcx/view
Martin Breidenbach is now one of three defendants in a criminal trial in Münster.
The second expert opinion was from the law firm Schulenberg & Schenk from Hamburg in June 2015:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/onecoin-leaks-schulenberg-schenk-legal-opinion-2015/
A third legal opinion was not previously known. This expert opinion was prepared by the Olesch law firm from Munich in July 2016.
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drive.google.com/file/d/1GyIszoDshCoIXdj-lI4PO922LZXlOjB1/view
Lawyer Dr. Norbert Olesch from Munich:
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Next to a photo of “King Jayms” (real name Cordel James) from Trinidad and Tobago, I found the following comments.
jamaike from Germany wrote:
andreaanstad from Norway wrote:
vali_scu from Romania wrote:
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Plus two legal opinions from London giants Hogan-Lovells
Fantastic news from Panama!
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Subsequently, OneCoin scammer Erick Rueda ONE from Panama uploaded a two-hour video:
youtube.com/watch?v=s46E1r6xyX4
If this is true, how can someone claim Ignatova’s penthouse in the UK?
decrypt.co/121879/bulgarian-investigators-claim-cryptoqueen-ruja-ignatova-was-killed-in-2018
@Seba
Did you read the original article?
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/onecoins-ruja-ignatova-on-fbis-top-ten-most-wanted-list/#comment-463085
@Melanie
Thank you! I missed that conversation in that article. I will return to my post reporting on Hispanic scammers 😀
Addition to comment #30
OneCoin scammer Erick Rueda ONE from Panama becomes the most important source of information within the criminal OneCoin organization. Currently, 10,200 people have subscribed to his channel.
Today he uploaded this very long video (1:47:11) unfortunately without subtitles:
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youtube.com/watch?v=h_Gx0RIw6AI
The following scammers participated in the above livestream:
Abel Diaz, Laura Argudo and Ulises Nunez from Ecuador. Maribel Martinez (“Black Diamond”) from Dominican Republic and “Captain” KING JAYMS from Trinidad and Tobago.
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The most important man from Ecuador, “Ambassador LATAM” Raúl Pazos Medina, was not present. Why? He still participated in another event in Quito in September 2022:
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Camilo Sanchez asked:
Erick Rueda ONE answered:
By the way, in 2013, the current OneCoin ambassador Raùl Pazos Medina was still poor and asked for support for his family on Twitter:
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twitter.com/raulpazosm1
Of his 29 tweets on Twitter, only three are still there. What did Raùl Pazos delete and why?
Currently he sells tickets for an event on March 4, 2023 for $10. A bad deal! For comparison:
100 tickets x $10 = $1,000
100 tickets x 1 ONE = €4,243
OneCoin is definitely the more valuable currency! 😀
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PS: Yesterday the live chat was still visible, today it is not. Why? Did it contain too many critical comments?
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Of all the lies that “Black Diamond” Raúl Pazos Medina from Ecuador has been spreading on Facebook in recent days, this is the nastiest.
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Jeff Bezos will be horrified when he reads this! When will AMAZON close?
How many merchants are currently registered with DealShaker?
How many of these merchants are already millionaires?
Why dealshaker appears at
? hmm, no domain?What a shady character that Raul Pazos Medina! googling his name showed that he was a speaker at several tech conferencies in Colombia and presented himself as “a former CEO of Banco de Loja, AI,crypto and blockchain specialist”
Later from home I’ll deep dive into his alleged credentials.
@Seba
The link you mentioned is a copy of the old DealShaker. You can recognize it by the much higher number of registered merchants – here 145,128.
You can access the current DealShaker here: dealshaker.oneecosystem.eu
I uploaded the contact details of notorious liar Raúl Edmondo Pazos Medina as a screenshot in this comment on December 13, 2020:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/so-were-getting-a-onecoin-movie/#comment-431697
This scammer from Ecuador did not like that. Who clicks on the link today, only reads:
Everyone should know how to reach this scammer. Here is a new screenshot with his contact details:
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Source was his old merchant profile on DealShaker.
Pazos, the genius who calls Konstantin Ignatov an “economist” and rages when a scammer gets jailed
Isaac Saramani huaquina from Bolivia commented under a video by Erick Rueda ONE from Panama:
OneCoin scammer Erick Rueda ONE replied:
Ruben Diaz gave this ridiculous recommendation:
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The so-called “support” in Sofia is guaranteed not to do anything against a “Black Diamond” and AMBASSADOR OF LATAM. Moreover, ambassadors enjoy legal immunity…. 😀
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To no one’s surprise the notorious Raúl Pazos Medina does not have a LinkedIn profile.
Or maybe, he deleted it.
It is telling that anyone involved in OneCoin:
a. Doesn’t have a LinkedIn profile, or,
b. Doesn’t mention OneCoin if they do. That goes for Valkova, Gilford, Von Arnheim, Ruja herself, Arens, etc.
Pazos is partly why the English language had to develop the word “stupid”
@Stevie
Did you miss this profile?
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@ Melanie
My bad. I missed that. I notice her experience defrauding foundry workers is left out
OneCoin scammer Satendra Kumar Saini from India quoted from an article by financemagnates.com:
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The original article from January 30, 2023:
financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/onecoin-founder-ruja-ignatova-is-back-after-5-years-in-hiding/
German journalist Martin Himmelheber reported on June 21, 2024.
nrwz.de/schramberg/ruja-ignatovas-penthouse-fuer-10-millionen-euro-versteigert/477973
This photo shows Konstantin Ignatov in his sister’s penthouse in London on July 20, 2018:
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