Top OneCoin scammer Juha Parhiala dead (unconfirmed)
Social media has lit up with condolences for top OneCoin scammer Juha Parhiala.
Thus far there hasn’t been any official confirmation of Parhiala’s death, reportedly overnight across May 10th/11th.
Born in 1958 and hailing from Finland, Parhiala is best known for co-owning the OneCoin Master Distributor position with Sebastian Greenwood.
Through the position Parhiala and Greenwood stole millions of dollars from OneCoin victims.
When BehindMLM last checked in on Parhiala in 2017, he had just purchased a bar in Cambodia.
At the time Parhiala was living in Thailand. According to his personal Facebook profile, Parhiala at some point fled Asia for Dubai.
Dubai is currently the MLM crime capital of the world. The UAE has no significant extradition treaties and MLM regulation is non-existent.
Parhiala’s reported death follows the arrest of Frank Schneider. In addition to overseeing money laundering within OneCoin, Schneider worked as Ruja Ignatova’s fixxer.
His arrest is a major coup for US authorities, who are slowly apprehending key OneCoin figures.
Parhiala’s partner in crime, Sebastian Greenwood, was arrested in Thailand at the behest of US authorities in 2018.
Whether US authorities were pursuing Parhiala is unclear. Between Schneider and Greenwood, they’d have certainly had enough intel to push for an indictment.
I suppose it comes down to the extent Parhiala was involved in running OneCoin versus just stealing money.
After OneCoin Parhiala attached himself to the short-lived clone Ponzi Solidus Global.
Living off the money he stole from OneCoin victims, in his later years Parhiala attempted to rebrand himself as a charitable “motivational speaker and independent coach”.
Parhiala’s last social media post was made on May 6th.
Ruja Ignatova lawsuit tomorrow.
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My mother always said: “The last shirt has no pockets…”
In March 2015, the OneCoin world was still okay. There were hardly any critics and all listeners believed in the infinite wealth with the Bulgarian miracle currency.
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While his physical size definitely made him a potential walking heart attack and stroke victim, I think this is just too convenient due to all that is happening with the US authorities taking the leaders down one-by-one.
If I am not mistaken, there are still sealed indictments waiting to be served. I think Juha thought he was next so faked his death.
He was there with Sebastian and Ruja in Big Coin and he worked with Sebastian in his previous programs before Big Coin, so they were as thick as peas in a pod.
It is just too contrived and convenient for me he has died. Until I see his body, won’t believe the story he died.
Frank Schneider’s arrest shakes up Luxembourg’s intelligence community
(intelligenceonline.com/corporate-intelligence/2021/05/12/frank-schneider-s-arrest-shakes-up-luxembourg-s-intelligence-community,109665341-eve )
Behind paywall. The desctiption shown in Google search provides interesting tidbit that isn’t shown via the link:
Time for me to get back on my Notorious series and make more videos about the former OneCoin leaders. Their stories are fascinating and disturbing.
I am glad I happened to see this. Is it thought Juha passed from natural causes or is it just a big we don’t know right now?
There’s nothing official yet. According to rumors, his staff found him in the morning in his room. Could be stroke or heart attack.
Juha is — or was — the third founder of OneCoin, but he has never really been given “credit” for it.
Juha says in the video Melanie links that “I saw OneCoin before it was OneCoin — and that was nine months ago [in June/July 2014]”.
“I told Sebastian let’s do something different with the compensation plan”. Then he describes what seems to be some kind of brainstorming prcoess he had with Rujs ja Sebastian to form the OneCoin compensation plan.
So he was there in the beginning offering his help & insight to get the scam started.
Juha’s MLM career was apparently mostly pyramid selling, and he turned to MLM-Ponzis only very late in his career.
In the video, he makes it even sound like OneCoin was his first Ponzi scheme (which is likely not true), and he desrcibes — in affect — neatly via OneCoin the advantages of MLM-Ponzi schemes over pure pyramid schemes.
Here (youtu.be/RLS-PPG-2sM?t=166), in an interview with Tom Macmurrain, Juha says that he was contacted by Dr Ruja ja Sebastian already in January 2014. So not impossible he could have been already in BigCoin with Ruja and Sebastian, like Lynn write.
I think Juha was more Swede than a Finn. He might have been born in Finland, but I think he lived in Sweden most of his life, spoke English with Swedish accent and Finnish was his third language.
This is probably the only known recording of Juha speaking in — quite broken — Finnish, and at one point struggles so much to express himself in Finnsh that he has to switch to English:
youtube.com/watch?v=XYvhsHc-FkY
The context of the video is that in April 2015 Conligus was about to merge into OneCoin, and Juha was briefing Sirpa Järvensivu’s Conligus team about OneCoin & the merger.
Juha boasts that he was the person who closed the merger deal between Steinkellers and Ruja — that without his approval and facilitation the deal would have never happened.
It’s in line with the view that he was the third founding pillar of OneCOin, having major infuence within the scam.
That’s a new one on me; most apt. The most common saying in the U.S. is “You can’t take it with you.”
I kind of like “You’ll never see a hearse pulling a U-Haul”.
(U-Haul rents trailers and moving vans)
@Semjon
Indeed. Although, we can’t forget that Nigel Allan was the original frontman and President until his following out with Ruj & Seb in early January 2015.
While Juha pops up a couple times before that, as Allan was buried away, Juha quickly emerged.
In late 2016, Allan claimed that he believed that he was originally likely set up to be the fall-guy, but that Ruja “got greedy and broke my contract to save my 2% override.”
I forget whether the number I recall for Juha’s contract being worth 1% or 1.5% of ALL Onecoin sales(!!!), but I know he negotiated an Agreement earning money on EVERYONE in the entire network (just like Ruja and Sebastian).
I’m not 100% clear what role Pehr Karlsson played behind the scenes, but he seemed to materialize early on as a Crown Diamond with little work or at least few public expressions.
(Pehr was also convicted on 2 of 13 fraud charges against him in Finland).
Interestingly, many OC OG’s came from Organo Gold fame, and I found this particular image which (accidentally?) links Parhiala and Karlsson together (as partners?) in Organo, and as (possibly) German Distributors – which would hypothetically put them closer to the Ignatov’s, geographically, back in late 2012.
SEE: rivergambiaexpedition2012.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/welcome-onboard-pehr-karlsson-of-organo-gold/
@ Tim Tayshun
David Imonitie has also switched from ORGANO GOLD to the OneCoin fraud. Video from October 2011:
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Video from December 2016 with the Steinkeller Brothers:
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David Imonitie as chauffeur for the three serial fraudsters named Steinkeller:
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I can understand your skepticism, Lynn, but consider the scenario: how could you fake your death by having your staff members report finding your body?
As a cover story, it is far too easily pierced. People fake their deaths by disappearing completely, leaving tantalizing clues of a possible suicide or abduction.
They don’t say to their employees: “Tell everyone you found my dead body. If anyone asks where it is, um, tell ’em you lost it. Yeah, that’s the ticket.”
Doesn’t fly.
If reports were along the lines of: “We don’t know where he is. He didn’t show up for work this morning. His car was found abandoned by the bridge over the river,” then I’d give the faked-death theory higher odds.
As it is, 95+% he shuffled off his mortal coil.
I understand where you are coming from, but how do we know that his staff found him for sure?
From what I have heard it is “rumored” that his staff found him, not that they did.
As of right now there has not been a confirmation of his death. Only that it was reported he had died. I still want to see the body.
It’s just the cynic in me when it comes to the players of OneCoin.
@ Amos_N_Andy
I am also skeptical for the following reason. Juha Parhiala was in love with himself and regularly uploaded photos of himself to Instagram. Now his account no longer exists and I ask who deleted it?
A stroke comes suddenly, nobody can prepare for it.
Instagram always notified me when Juha uploaded new photos. Here is just an excerpt:
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When I hear the words, “together with my team helping children” associated with Thailand etc, it sends shivers down my spine.
What they might really be saying is “together with my team, helping [ourselves to] children”.
@ The Truth
All OneCoin scammers claim they want to help children. Also Ruja with her OneWorldFoundation!
I wanted to donate a larger amount today, but unfortunately that is not possible. oneworldfoundation.eu reports:
Another example of OneCoin scammers supposedly helping poor children:
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Can someone build bridges in Vietnam with worthless ONE?
The scammer who uploaded this video just calls himself “one“. He allegedly lives in France and has been an intense promoter of the OneCoin scam since August 2018.
His YouTube channel has 7,110 subscribers and is constantly being filled with new videos of lies.
He also comments on almost all videos on YouTube that deal with OneCoin / OneLife. Similar to Marian Murphy from Galway, Ireland.
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The scammer “one” of course also commented on this video:
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Orright. I had another upside down day but I’m catching up over the next few hours.
Lol, FBI sez no! We’ll arrest you and you’ll tell us what we want to know.
Frank Schneider was reportedly the person who spread the rumour that Ruja is dead (twitter.com/CryptoXpose/status/1192847292216336385).
I suppose he tried to tell the FBI some other story — or perhaps just help FBI to locate Ruja’s grave. 😉
In light of this, perhaps they now try the same trick with Juha.
@Melanie from Germany –
While factually correct, it should be noted that Mr. Imonite (Jr.) abandoned the company and its lies within <30 days from this announcement and upon full realization that he had joined a den of thieves and international fraud scheme.
When I saw the announcement, at the time, I wanted to know who this guy was, and his history.
I began sending him messages and links from the arsenal bag I’d collected along the way, up to that point, including the fact that Ruja Ignatova had already been a convicted fraudster in Germany, embezzling money from her own employees and suppliers.
His first response was typical (ie., “you seem like a hater”), but I persisted and DARED him to ask anyone at the leadership level to explain what a blockchain is and to show any evidence at all that Onecoin had one. And he agreed to it!
Maybe two weeks later he came back aghast, expressing shock, and sharing what he witnessed. He stated that while he, himself, still did not fully understand blockchain, when he softly demanded an answer about the Onecoin blockchain from the Steinkellers who brought him aboard, he CLEARLY recognized that (Christian?) was lying through his teeth when delivering a super lame and obviously false response!
David was actually disgusted, because he’d known the brothers for quite awhile via Organo Gold, and did not expect to be lied to in the face. He exited Onecoin that week, less than 30 days from his entrance.
Undoubtedly the shortest tenure of any heavy hitter.
Further to this, Mr. Imonite Jr. was also providing us some solid inside intelligence, at the time, of what was going on, on the inside. As was another former Organo Gold guy.
Soon after this, a group of us so-called “haters”, wanting to draw more publicity to the fake cryptocurrency Onecoin scam, invited a certain crypto reporter, whom up to that point we thought was respectable enough to work with us.
We foolishly allowed him into a private group to receive some of the inside information about the scam, which we were all consistently gleaning through our own various sources.
No sooner had we (I) allowed him into the private group, THIS SCUMBAG (and most pathetic excuse for a “journalist”) …this back-stabbing opportunist French kook and coward, named J.P. Buntix, blasted the most premature and ridiculously misunderstood and factually inaccurate article ever written about Onecoin in its history, hilariously naming, in the article’s headline, David Imonite Jr. and Daniel Grennon as two of “the four most egregious Onecoin scammers!!!”
In doing so, he immediately, upon publication, burnt that bridge of communication between both men and us, who were some of the first insiders providing us with intelligence.
It was a brutal blow and set back, which still cannot be forgiven, and we were absolutely livid!
But both he and the publication he worked for refused to address, modify or retract any of the FALSE story, and simply blocked our numbers, email and contact on all social media, without ever even saying a single word, nor apologizing.
LAWSUIT REVEALS CRYPTOQUEEN RUJA IGNATOVA CONTROLS BITCOINS WORTH OVER $13 BILLION jlevy.co/2021/05/12/148/
@TimTayshun
Pehr and Juha were indeed working together in Organo. Unfortunately, they were our sponsors. They made a deal with us to join OG back in the days and flew us to Thailand to meet with Juha, Pehr and Aaron.
We later had quite many problems with Pehr and Juha and it was a horrible experience with them. So we stayed working with Aaron and he is the only one nice and legit guy from them all from my own experience.
I am glad that I am far away from all my previous connections and names that keep popping up as scammers.
I loved OG, it was interesting time, but it saddens me that so many people from there joined some scams instead of normal companies that still exist.
People can do money on good, honest things. We all can be kind to others and still earn enough to support ourselves. That constant desire to become a millionaire will never do good to anyone and not save us from bad things happening.
Take care guys, and I wish you all a true success that is measured in good deeds.
I believe to do that you need to go back to the CONLIGUS set-up as well. It was only after another scammer Fabrice K. from France put that company in trouble, only a few months after being launched, that the tree famous brothers Steinkeller decided to sell the database to Ruja.
It took of shortly after like a rocket, where before you hadn’t heard much of them. With those 3 came the Igor’s Kari’s José’s etc.
What I am really surprised about, knowing Mexico and South America well, that there haven’t been to many killings besides a few among Onecoin promoters there.
They kill someone for a lot less there these days then when you steal millions from them. In Mexico and Colombia they became huge in a very short time and most of the promoters ran off in silence after José G. finally abandoned the ship.
So the real take off was thanks to some hot shots leaving Organo gold creating Conligus (Steinkellers and Staffan Liback) failing badly because they on their turns were scammed by a French idiot and that led to their luck in Onecoin were they stole more money than ever before.
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@ Joy
That’s right. Pehr Karlsson and Juha Parhiala have jointly offered and sold ORGANO GOLD products on a website:
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The number shown in the screenshot is from Sweden.
I mentioned this before in July 2018:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/onecoin-investors-airline-money-laundering-scheme-thwarted/#comment-400367
The screenshot that I took back then is no longer available. Pehr Karlsson or his lawyer apparently had it deleted. Another indication that the fraudsters are diligently reading along on BehindMLM.
A OneCoin scam event took place in Warsaw, Poland on August 1st, 2016. The following scammers were named as sponsors on a Polish website:
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(Note: The Poles misspelled his name.)
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In addition, the Poles mention the OneCoin scammer Edward Ludbrook very extensively with videos and books.
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This is a sensation! Juha Parhiala is not dead!
This video was published three hours ago:
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This fantastic news was spread by Syed Muhammad Muzammil Gilani from Pakistan. Where will the event take place?
The notorious liar and OneCoin fraudster Syed Muhammad Muzammil Gilani has largely copied the text in the video above from this site:
onecoin-team.blogspot.com/2016/02/meet-dr-ruja-ignatova-and-onecoin-team.html
He removed the dates and the location because that was in Bangkok in November 2015.
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This photo of the funeral of Juha Parhiala is shown on the Internet:
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An enlargement of his portrait. Not very sharp, but recognizable:
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I honestly no expert but that doesn’t look like a ceremony in Dubai.
Looks far more Asian, i.e. Thailand/Cambodia. This doesn’t track with Parhiala’s social media accounts.
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Keep reading on
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For three days the death of Juha Parhiala has also been discussed in a Cambodian forum. As the former owner of the Sharky Bar, he was very well known in Cambodia.
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Addition to comment #25
OneCoin “Crown Diamonds” Juha Parhiala and Pehr Karlsson together at a scam event in January 2016:
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An obituary notice from Jorma Pallari:
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Who is Jorma Pallari?
He works for Chris Principe in his “company” Solidus Global. Juha Parhiala also recently cheated for Chris Principe. The three on a screenshot:
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Leaden, maybe, or putrescent. Most likely atherosclerotic.
But “golden”? Gag me.
I don’t have a confirmation, but it looks like Parhiala’s funeral was in Thailand and it was a buddhist ceremony, based on the text on this whiteboard.
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@Fin
Yeah Thai fits. Must have shipped the body over.
I saw comments like these on Facebook.
what has this man done for people to hate him so much. I mean he wasn’t the creator of one coin just he was in the mlm parmid.
ruja places him high oh well not my scean I do not know him and I personally have no comments about him just seeing fb posts.
1. I believe Parhiala is being cremated.
2. Parhiala was the recipient of millions of dollars in stolen OneCoin investor funds. Authorities failed to take any action against him.
Are you really surprised people are angry?
He might be faking his own death since as many mentioned here the us justice system imight be comming for him next
A picture that catched my attention today:
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Honest euhhhhhhh.
I believe it says enough over the guys writing nice things about this clown. Colleagues or Co-scammers who knows.
Some interesting rumours/allegations about Juha on that forum that may shed some light on Juha’s (& his Sharky bar’s) shady background:
I tried to track down these rumours.
The “SEAPS boiler rooms” seem to refer to this:
(andrew-drummond.news/bei-trading-phnom-pen-brits-posing-tokyo-brokers-new-scam/)
And the hooker running away with the moneny to this: https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/hooker-arrested-after-making-off-with-onecoin-scammers-stash/
Guy from the OneCoin hooker story, Kaj Naparstok, surfaced in similiar rumours on another forum, which seems to be in line with with the rumours above:
(cambodiaexpatsonline.com/post286592.html#p286592)
It seems Juha and Kaj could have been something of a “underworld figures” in that region…
Did Juha Parhiala briefly leave his coffin for this photo 5 days ago?
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As usual with the notorious liar and OneCoin scammer Syed Muhammad Muzammil Gilani from Multan, Pakistan, the video contains only text. An example:
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Dreadful! We should pray for the FIAT currencies.
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Mark Nishiyama, former “Blue Diamond” from Japan, wrote on Instagram on May 12, 2021:
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I thought Nishiyama carked it for a second there.
Melanie with the gravedigging!
This guy dead or not, he would have had hundreds of millions of investor funds, maybe even more?
Abject fail by US DOJ Victim office in SDNY which should be tracking down investor funds.
Yeah Parhiala, Igor Alberts, the Steinkellers, Simon Le and probably others I’m forgetting were the big fish net-winners.
None have been pursued.