Samoan church officials stole millions, put it into OneCoin
Through a web of financial mismanagement and corruption, officials of the Samoan Independent Seventh Day Adventist church in New Zealand stole millions from its congregation.
A lot of the stolen money was pocketed by the officials themselves. The rest was ploughed into OneCoin and other fraudulent investment schemes.
Investigations into SISDAC began in 2013. It wouldn’t be till 2017 however that former treasurer Elizabeth Papu would be sentenced to prison for stealing $1.6 million.
Papu blew the money she stole from the church at a casino.
Papu’s conduct prompted Charities Services to investigate ‘whether the church knew about Papu’s offending.’
What they found was damning.
As reported by Radio New Zealand;
Elizabeth Papu misappropriated a further $766,895 that was not uncovered by the SFO probe. (Her father, Pastor Willie Papu, contends that this income came from legitimate sources).
Another former treasurer, Joseph Stowers, took $498,997 in church funds as undeclared income in 2017.
Pastor Willie Papu Junior banked more than $316,000 from the church and its World Committee bank account. (He claims they supported the church or were personal income that he paid tax on).
Pastor Willie Papu engaged in “serious wrongdoing” by taking $84,031 in church funds for him and his family, and influencing SISDAC to pay a further $63,309 of his expenses. (He submits that he never took the money for his personal benefit).
In addition to the money he personally stole, Willie Papu (right) is alleged to have
spearheaded large investments including nearly $1m into the cryptocurrency OneCoin, and $1.7m into WFE Capital.
OneCoin we’re of course familiar with. WFE Capital appears to be a long since collapsed Ponzi scheme.
Papu was assisted by Sina Hunt, a New Zealand resident who received $200,000 from SISDAC.
Hunt (right), together with Papu, funneled SISDAC’s congregation into OneCoin and Organo Gold.
In 2019 Radio New Zealand reported SISDAC had laundered millions into OneCoin, as part of efforts to circumvent a national ban on OneCoin investment in Samoa.
Of the money SISDAC took from its congregation and invested into OneCoin, “all of the funds” have been reported lost.
An additional $500,000 has been raised from SISDAC’s congregation, who are mostly from Samoa, to cover the church’s losses.
Since WFE collapsed, Willie Papu has ‘paid SISDAC $355,097 in reparations for the funds lost’.
Charities Service’s investigation led to SISDAC being removed from New Zealand’s Charities Register. The de-registration is effective for a minimum of six months.
In the report, the Charities Registration Board said it still had concerns about Pastor Papu’s influence over SISDAC’s investment decisions.
Willie Papu, identified as a key influence on the church’s offending, remains Executive Director of SISDAC’s World Committee.
When he’s not fleecing his congregation, Papu spends his time preaching hate against other Christian denominations and New Zealand’s PM.
For his part, Papu appears to have no remorse for financial damage inflicted upon SISDAC’s congregation.
I know that Charities Services would love to kill my influence. But influence is not something you can kill.
It is a legacy, built upon a lifetime of service and compassion.
Seeing as Willie Papu’s legacy is herding his congregation into a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme for his own financial benefit, we’re not sure how that fits into “service and compassion”.
Why New Zealand authorities haven’t pressed criminal charges against Papu and other known OneCoin leaders is unclear.
Following a report by New Zealand police detailing OneCoin related fraud, the Commerce Commission announced it wouldn’t be investigating OneCoin in early 2020.
I don’t know much about 7 Days of Adventurism or whatever but I do know this from someone in the know:
1. Sina Hunt had her one grandson baptised “Konstantin”;
2. OC events would have to be juggled because Sina wouldn’t appear on stage on a Saturday;
3. Sina sided with Veselina Valkova over Simon Le and “King Size” Cordel James. I wonder how that Invicta spin-off is going; and,
5. Sina got the original Aussie DS franchise despite not being remotely Australian.
What does that say about what Sofia really thought about Thanh? And how desperate they must be to have a dude who looks like a prop from the Alien franchise driving a large part of the world now?
Willie Papu sounds like a real stand-up bloke, the kind of person you’d cross the road to avoid.
Oh, and Samoa actually BANNED OC. Yes, banned it.
This despite a delegation going there to plead with them not to and convince the central bank in Apia that IMAs know more about payments than central bankers. What a tangled web.
Imagine in 10 years some poor kid asking “who am I named after?”
“Why, this herioc figure, here.” [Holds up photo]
“Are you gonna make me cover my body with tattoos too, Gramdma?”
“Not until you’re 18, boy. But yes.”
Sina Hunt in June 2018 with nine other OneCoin scammers:
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The same poster bigger and clearer:
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The fraud event in June 2018 was organized by Sina Hunt in the SISDAC Hall:
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“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
“An Insta fuckboy who rides his sister’s coattails, plays CEO and then gets left holding the bag. Goals!”
Thanks for that Melanie. I’ve added Sina Hunt’s photo to the article.
Sina Hunt and her commitment to ORGANO GOLD (partial quote):
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samoabusinessnetwork.org/newsarticles/organo-gold-hosts-sbn-inc-september-business-network-evening
Have you all seen The Vatican, or Joel Olsteen’s mega church and home? Just sayin….
They shut down the police investigation into OneCoin.
OneCoin digital and banking infrastructure man Herve Lacorne and his buddies like Lawrence Chan and Leigh Flounders are closely connected to Sky City Casino and mostly former big players in the New Zealand National Party, like Michelle Boag, former National Party president, as well as the likes of John Banks.
Evil people. New Zealand is a centre for global money laundering operations. It’s “least corrupt country in the world” designation is completely bogus.
OneCoin’s former head of Asia and the Pacific is free and running another scam from a 7 million dollar mansion in Auckland’s Remuera, with a deck that overlooks Sky City in the distance.
OneCoin scammers in Sofia have created a new way to milk money from the suckers:
(us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=cf9659fd672fe664d487e7e1b&id=d25140aab0)
So, to make certain transactions recorded in OneCoin blockchain, one has to pay Ethereum blockchain related transaction fees, in euros, per OneCoin amount transfered — and therefore not per transaction regardless of the transfered amount, as it is in Eth –, and at a fixed rate that Eth gas fees aren’t (today gas price has fluctuated between 160 gwei [$6.5] and 209 gwei [$8.5] per tx). LOL!
The “educated miners” will no doubt swallow this too without any objection because OneAcademy won’t give them even elementary understanding of cryptos.
Another interesting (and strange) thing in the newsletter is that for some reason Kristina Gouneva and Madam VIS-2ka deceided to put some leaders in hairy situation by de facto disallowing the fixes related to the jointly bought bigger packs.
What is the story with Kristina Gouneva and Veska Kleptokova then?
One is the mother of K’s child, one is K’s mother, K turned against his sister and mother.
This piggy-backing onto Ethereum is new or did I miss some recent OneCoin developments?
I’d like to know that too.
Wild speculation but perhaps they are forced by the Bulgarian mafia to continue the scam, in order to buy their own protection and Ruja’s protection.
And/or this is the way the Ignatov family has to “compensate” for Konstantin’s snitching. Look at how desperate and reluctant looking Veska was when she appeared on stage at the August 2020 OneCoin event… 😉
DOJ is on record saying “the head of security at OneCoin is a large-scale international drug trafficker, and it’s actually that same head of security that was involved in the disappearance of the defendant’s sister”.
They don’t name him, but this guy most certainly is “the Cocaine King” Taki, the head of VIS-2 gang. Some of the money transfers referred to in the Mark Scott trial point directly to Taki’s interest sphere.
In 2016, Ruja even put her mother in a company (Pro Dial EOOD; bird.bg/tr/?v=view&guid=203186715#subdeeds) along with Taki’s wife, and this company was implicated in the scheme that defrauded EU funds for the Bulgarian criminal elite (bivol.bg/en/gpgate-cash-offshores-political-parties-russian-oligarchs-and-alleged-drug-lords-wife.html)
This is new. It has nothing to with their past or present ERC-20 experiments. They just build an absurd story around gas fees in Ethereum to justify a new money source and to prevent free movement of coins within the members.
In fact, some months ago the blockchain explorer they had in the new OneLife platform broadcasted data from Bitcoin blockchain: pjarvinen.blogspot.com/2020/09/onecoin-jasentiedot-vuotaneet-nettiin.html
Can’t confirm, but I think they have now changed “blockchain explorer” when the Bitcoin thing it was exposed. But the BTC blockchain saga shows how utterly cynical the scammers in Sofia are.
This Velkov guy who runs the IT operation should really pay high the price for faciliting such fraud.
@ Semjon; Thanks. It could be exactly that. Then again, why would they continue if they are in the sites of the US and every other authority?
Governments come and go and drug lords have unpredictable expiry dates. If the family are paying for protection the cash must be running out surely if the thirty bucks for a KYC is suddenly an issue.
Which brings us back to: how is Ignatov funding his expensive defense?
If he ratted on the family, it can’t be them paying. And how can the US authorities allow dirty money to be used defending anyone in these circumstances?
@ Oz
Have you read this?
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/two-more-arrests-in-argentinian-onecoin-crim-case/#comment-433801
@Melanie
When did they reboot OneCoin as an ERC-20 shit token? Fark how far out of the loop am I?
@Fin
Phew! I know sometimes I skim over the comments when editing but I was hoping I hadn’t missed that much.
@ Oz
Obviously it is wrong information from a Telegram group. In a Finnish forum “Fantasos” wrote (partial quote):
murobbs.muropaketti.com/threads/onecoin-uusi-pyramidihuijaus-krp-rikosta-voidaan-arvioida-luotettavasti-vasta-myoehemmin.1197240/page-876 (comment # 21880)
PS: We know “Fantasos” as “Otto”.
The notorious liar and OneCoin fraudster Syed Muhammad Muzammil Gilani from Multan in Pakistan also mentions “another blockchain” in a video.
Allegedly a piece of information from the “Black Diamond” Muhammad Adeel Anwar:
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youtube.com/watch?v=r-J_F2RQ8rA
Oz don’t worry, you are not out of the loop one bit. OneCoin is not any erc-20 or any other Ethereum token and at least currently it has nothing to do with Ethereum.
They just came up with this “Gas” concept to allow cross network coin transfer but making it too expensive to transfer bigger amounts of coins directly between users, so members don’t start large scale black markets in desperation.
Transferring 1000 onecoins would need 1000 Gas which costs 1000 euros… This doesn’t apply to Dealshaker though.
OneLife new portal has a “block explorer” which hashes are non-clickable and the hashes don’t produce any results with etherscan.io search…
Basically it’s even more pathetic than the joke blockchain simulator running before the updated OneLife website.
This Ethereum connection BS is just the usual OneCoin marketing hype. The still believing stupid members have no idea what is a real block explorer and what it should show..
Currently OneLife’s new “block explorer” shows only this, and nothing can be clicked:
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So someone at OneCoin read the ethereum marketing BS and thought, “hey there’s a good idea to steal some more money with”.
Lulz!
@Oz, I think you meant someone at OneCoin read the Ethereum introduction and used some of it for the OneCoin marketing BS to steal more money.
I figured the affiliate was just making it up. Someone at OneCoin read that and a lightbulb went off.
Now here we are.
A long video on the subject of “GAS” with the Australian OneCoin scammer Thanh Duong, who also calls himself “Thanh OC”. The first part in English until minute 36:20.
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youtube.com/watch?v=UzEG3ZzOkos
Partial quote from today’s newsletter:
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us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=cf9659fd672fe664d487e7e1b&id=4a0edd5823
This “SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT” reached me yesterday by email (partial quote):
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@ Melanie
Has it finally dawned on them that gift codes get sold and resold without any of the money ever going to Sofia?
How do they expect any IMA to actually make any money if they clamp down on this since payments effectively stopped in January 2017?
@ Stevie
The scam portals giftcodeshop.eu and giftcodefactory.com are no longer available. The domain registration is called by AFASM GmbH in Vienna.
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The OneCoin fraudster Pascal-Rene André from Austria ran these portals. He was a partner or an employee of AFASM GmbH.
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Promotion for GiftCodeFactory.com in the former forum of Igor Krnic:
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Thanks Melanie.
It’s an open secret that Luca and Cristi have been laundering the things for a while. Habib and Julien ran the biggest mill of the things.
Julien nearly got sued in France. How many OC victims think they have a package but don’t?
@ Stevie
In this video from February 1, 2018, Julien Zerbini (right) listens carefully to what the serial fraudster Frank Ricketts (center) has to say.
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Two short quotes that completely contradict each other!
youtube.com/watch?v=dbH-kjqYUqs
Three months after Ruja disappeared without a trace, Ricketts allegedly left the company. At the same time, however, he announced in February 2018 that he would start a OneLife Network training …
Does anyone see any logic in these statements?
So close to admitting the illegality of pyramid schemes, yet so far.