More victims come forward in Argentinian OneCoin crim case

24 Comments on “More victims come forward in Argentinian OneCoin crim case”

#1

Lynndel "Lynn" Edgington

Dec 21st, 2020 at 1:16 pm  Lynndel "Lynn" Edgington(Q)

FYI: It should be Crime in the headline, not Crim.



#2

Oz

Dec 21st, 2020 at 2:53 pm  Oz(Q)

Crim = short for criminal. I have to keep titles at a certain length so sometimes I’ll abbreviate or get creative.

But thanks for keeping an eye open 😀



#3

WhistleBlowerFin

Dec 28th, 2020 at 9:09 pm  WhistleBlowerFin(Q)

Eduardo Alejandro Taylor has also been detained now.

Update: lavoz.com.ar/sucesos/dos-detenidos-mas-en-investigacion-por-cuento-de-criptomonedas

Google Translation:

Two more detainees in the investigation for the “tale of cryptocurrencies” Operational.

Money and promotional posters, among the material that was seized during the raids ordered by the prosecutor. (Police / File)

FRANCISCO PANERO
Sunday, December 27, 2020 – 00:09 | Updated: 12/27/2020 – 01:07

From Brazil, Eduardo Taylor from Buenos Aires appeared.

At his house in the city of Córdoba, they arrested businessman Ariel Morasut.

Three foreigners remain at large.

The investigations began and the situation of the detainees would not be resolved before the judicial fair.

While the complaints of more victims of the cryptocurrency scam grow and after the investigations began, this week there were two new arrests in the case, in addition to the eight defendants who are deprived of liberty.

At the beginning of last week, Eduardo Alejandro Taylor from Buenos Aires turned himself in and Cordovan businessman Ariel Morasut, owner of the Los Capuchinos funeral home, was found at his home, according to judicial sources.

Taylor learned from the press that he was wanted as a fugitive and, from Brazil, reported that he was coming to the country to find out. After landing at the Taravella airport, he was detained by the immigration authorities.

The Cordovan businessman Morasut did not weigh an arrest warrant or was charged, but his name and his alleged participation in the maneuver came up when he heard new victims. When his home was searched in Córdoba, he was detained at the disposal of Gavier.

The case now has 13 defendants, with three fugitive foreigners and a total of 10 arrested. Those who were already deprived of their liberty were eight: Gustavo Adolfo Amuchástegui – accountant -, Andrés Matías López, Mariana Noel López, Edgar Nicolás Moreno – speaker and journalist -, Manuel Vicente Peralta Guevara, Mónica Gabriela Blasco, Daniel Cornaglia – lawyer – and Ricardo Beretta.

The three fugitives are foreigners: the Bulgarian siblings Konstantín Ignatov and Ruja Ignatova, plus the Spanish José Gordo. The three have left the country and are wanted by the justices of other countries, including the United States.

After the arrests and raids carried out at the beginning of this month, the Enrique Gavier Prosecutor’s Office for Complex Crimes began to rain complaints from affected individuals who paid “memberships” of 65 thousand dollars to enter into the alleged purchase of an asset that ended up being fictitious : the “onecoin cryptocurrencies”, which never really existed.

According to the file, the scams were committed from the OneLife company, and hundreds of people who acquired “educational packages for investments in cryptocurrency” were harmed.

Now, they are already talking about the amount of fraud, which would be multimillionaire in dollars.

According to the first estimates, that minimum membership figure of 65 thousand dollars should be multiplied by 100, by 200 or by many more victims, which would raise the amount of the mega-scam to more than seven million dollars, just as a weighting provisional.



#4

scambuster789

Dec 28th, 2020 at 11:27 pm  scambuster789(Q)

Jose G can’t be so difficult to find as he resides in Spain. That is of course if he didn’t fled the country last week to Dubai or another country that protects most of the scammers.

Once they cleaned up the mess in Argentina maybe next they can start doing something in Europe. There was a high concentration of high positions in The Netherlands, Germany, France and Italy.

It’s about time they start putting some of these leaders also behind bars.



#5

Melanie from Germany

Dec 29th, 2020 at 12:30 am  Melanie from Germany(Q)

@ scambuster789

Many scammers like to launder their dirty money in Panama. JOSE ANTONIO GORDO VALERO is no exception.

MASTERMIND ENTERPRISES INC. he founded in Panama in October 2017. Maybe Jose Gordo also has a residence in Panama?

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Other companies of serial fraudster Jose Antonio Gordo Valero in Panama:

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Jose Gordo is the second scammer to cheat with only part of his full name. The other OneCoin scammer is Muhammad Adeel – full name Muhammad Adeel Anwar.

International arrest warrants should use full name! Who speaks Spanish and informs the Argentine public prosecutor?



#6

Oz

Dec 29th, 2020 at 6:00 am  Oz(Q)

Good to see they didn’t just forget about the guy who fled to Brazil.

An extradition request for Jose Gordo would be icing on the cake.

edit: Unfortunately that Lavoz article is behind a paywall for me.



#7

PassingBy

Dec 29th, 2020 at 7:36 am  PassingBy(Q)

To be fair: in Spain, and in some former Spanish colonies which have kept the same rule, everyone has two family names, a paternal and a maternal one, and it is perfectly normal to only use the first one in daily life.

For instance, the current Prime Minister of Spain is called Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón in full, but nobody thinks he is trying to deceive anyone by usually going by just Pedro Sánchez.



#8

Stevie

Dec 29th, 2020 at 4:46 pm  Stevie(Q)

Firstly, @ Lynn: Happy Birthday! Looking through some older posts I was reminded.

Secondly: I have so many questions I can’t find answers to.

1. Where is Konstantin’s girlfriend? And what is her relationship to the Ignatov clan with Konstantin having flipped?

2. With K having pleaded guilty and singing, who is paying his expensive attorney?

3. What is the status with the Class Action in NY? Does it stand even a reasonable chance?

4. What happened at the Frankfurt Book Fair with selling the rights to make a film from a book?

5. What happened to the BBC podcast?

6. Has the yacht been seized? If not, why not?

7. Is the office in Sofia even open?

There are many more. My greatest worry is that everyone will cop a plea deal and we will be cheated out of the little details since there won’t be anything said in open court. Already the Elizabeth Holmes and Ghislaine Maxwell stuff are the focus of attention



#9

Melanie from Germany

Dec 29th, 2020 at 8:06 pm  Melanie from Germany(Q)

Presentation of Onelife in Cordoba, Argentina by Alejandro Taylor

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youtube.com/watch?v=lL-2sLtHrPA

Uploaded by Emmanuel Yapura.

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In another video, Emmanuel Yapura advertises Cloudhorizon with Alejandro Taylor (left) and the well-known serial fraudster Frank Ricketts (right).

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#10

Melanie from Germany

Dec 29th, 2020 at 8:33 pm  Melanie from Germany(Q)

OneCoin & OneLife Interview | Alejandro Taylor

English subtitles. Comments are disabled.

youtube.com/watch?v=d3ngy9PJVBk

Uploaded by Luis da Fonseca, Life and Financial Coaching. No screenshot possible due to copy protection. The luis-dafonseca.com fraud portal mentioned under the video is no longer available. Here is a recent photo of him:

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#11

Semjon

Dec 30th, 2020 at 12:21 am  Semjon(Q)

@Stevie

1. Where is Konstantin’s girlfriend? And what is her relationship to the Ignatov clan with Konstantin having flipped?

Konstantin Ignatov’s girlfriend Kristina Gouneva is in Bulgaria, building a career as an aspiring mob lawyer(ga-lawfirm.bg/our-team).

She has a good mentor in VIS-2 lawyer Viktor Rashev who hangs around with the Ignatovs.

Kristina is said to be one of the gang of four who constitute the leadership of the current OneCoin “corporate”. The other three are Veska Ignatov, Georgi Georgiev (the Ignatov crime family head accountant) and Vanya Angelova (Kristina’s law firm partner and Ignatov crime family lawyer).

So it appears Kristina doesn’t want or need witness protection (which she is eligible, according to K’s plea deal terms).

K probably isn’t able to tell FBI the kind of secrets that would put her life in danger. The Mark Scott trial transcript shows that K wasn’t a full insider. (I think there is even a strange instance in the trial where K seemingly clearly mis-identifies one of Ruja’s elusive crime partners — most likely a mistake borne out of ignorance & confusion but not impossible that he lied to protect his family or simply that the transcript has an error…)

Kristina has probably conlcuded that she is safest by siding with the criminals and becoming a partner in crime.

The VIS-2 mobsters and their patrons in Bulgarian & Russian elite are best kept happy this way.

2. With K having pleaded guilty and singing, who is paying his expensive attorney?

His family and girlfriend, it seems. Earlier this year, Mark Scott’s defense complained that after the trial the Government allowed $1.8 million of OneCoin criminals proceeds to be used to pay Konstantin’s legal fees, hinting about corruption.

This what the Government replied:

In his memorandum of law in support of his Motion (“Def. Mem.,” Dkt No. 218), the defendant mischaracterizes the recent disclosure letter sent by the Government to the defense regarding Konstantin and the payment of his legal fees. The Government did not “permit” Konstantin to use OneCoin Scheme proceeds to pay for his legal fees. (Def. Mem. at 3).

As noted in the Government’s letter dated January 21, 2020 to defense counsel, the Government did not receive any specific information regarding the source of funds used to pay for Konstantin’s legal fees until after the conclusion of Scott’s trial.

Furthermore, as set forth in Exhibit B to the Government’s January 21 letter, Konstantin believes that his girlfriend and his parents arranged for the payment of his legal fees, and that they took out loans and sold a piece of inherited land in order to pay for the legal fees.

Konstantin would therefore not have had an “added incentive to shade his testimony,” as the defendant argues. (Def. Mem. at 3).

6. Has the yacht been seized? If not, why not?

No, AFAIK.

Since US Government hasn’t enfroced the forfeiture clauses, because the trials at SDNY are not at that stage yet?

Bulgarians won’t do a thing unless pressured from outside. They’ll probably act only if pressured from outside, like in 2018 with the Sofia office raid.

It’s clear that Ignatov crime family has high level protection in Bulgaria. DOJ/US Government is even on public record saying that Bulgarian officials have taken bribes from OneCoin.



#12

WhistleBlowerFin

Dec 30th, 2020 at 1:04 am  WhistleBlowerFin(Q)

@Oz you can read the LaVoz article simply by disabling JavaScript from your browser.



#13

Lynndel "Lynn" Edgington

Dec 30th, 2020 at 1:46 am  Lynndel "Lynn" Edgington(Q)

@Stevie, Thank you for the B-day wishes. Great set of questions and hoping to have answers shortly.

As for his attorney, he was paid up-front in cash for his services.

Given his legal standing, I am sure he checked to make sure the funds he received were clean funds and not from OneCoin.



#14

Oz

Dec 30th, 2020 at 6:16 am  Oz(Q)

@WhistleBlowerFin

Ah thanks for that, worked.



#15

WhistleBlowerFin

Dec 30th, 2020 at 7:04 am  WhistleBlowerFin(Q)

@Stevie, about the BBC podcast:
They released episode 9 this year on August, and plan to continue it, but it’s open when the next episode will be released.

Jamie Bartlett will definitely announce on Twitter when there’s news about the next episode:
twitter.com/JamieJBartlett



#16

Stevie

Dec 30th, 2020 at 7:27 am  Stevie(Q)

@ everyone who answered

Thanks.



#17

PassingBy

Dec 30th, 2020 at 6:19 pm  PassingBy(Q)

As for his attorney, he was paid up-front in cash for his services.

Given his legal standing, I am sure he checked to make sure the funds he received were clean funds and not from OneCoin.

Which is of course a sham, something that just lets the lawyers off the hook, and everyone knows it.

The parents of Konstantin’s girlfriend probably did sell a piece of land they happened to own, and transfer a sum not larger than the proceeds of that to his lawyer.

That shortly afterwards they may get back the same amount of money in untraceable cash from the OC criminal proceeds, plus something extra for their trouble, or maybe mysteriously acquire a new piece of land of the same or a higher value, nobody can ever know.

(I believe that generally, in the kind of circles in Bulgaria the Ignatov crime family moves in, hard to understand real estate transactions, with valuable properties changing hands for remarkably small sums, are quite common.)

It’s really just a form of money laundering, and everybody knows a lot of the fees made by expensive criminal defense attorneys are laundered in such a way, through family members and ‘friends’.

Where else, other than their criminal activities, could career criminals possibly get that money from?



#18

Melanie from Germany

Dec 30th, 2020 at 6:56 pm  Melanie from Germany(Q)

Konstantin Ignatov pays his lawyers $ 1.8 million

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#19

Semjon

Dec 30th, 2020 at 9:38 pm  Semjon(Q)

The legal bills in SDNY OneCoin case are huge, and the defendants no doubt have to get access to their main source of wealth — which is OneCoin criminal proceeds — in order to pay them.

Hell, Judge Ramos even agreed to have Mark Scott’s new $2.5 million bail bond secured by a Florida apartment (which was on Governmetn forfeiture BOP) he bought with OneCoin criminal proceeds.

Mark Scott might be bitter about the Konstantin’s legal funding because he had to rely on second-rate lawyer David Garvin for much of the case because Government blocked his initial attempt to get ill-gotten funds released.

By October 2019 he managed somehow to get funding for his Covington lawyers, as the recent court filing reveals about his legal funding saga:

1. Covington & Burling LLP (“Covington”) was engaged by Mark Scott to represent him shortly after his arrest on September 5, 2018, for purposes of securing release on bail.

2. Following release on bail on September 10, 2018, Mr. Scott sought to access funds that had not been seized or restricted to pay for defense counsel, including Covington, who he wished to maintain on the case.

3. At the time of his arrest, Mr. Scott had funds in various accounts at UBS. The Government obtained seizures warrant on September 4, 2018 and October 5, 2018 for three of the accounts, but did not seize funds in four other accounts, including a retirement account that had been funded through a prior employer and a 529 account for Mr. Scott’s son (the “Unrestrained UBS Accounts”).

4. On October 1, 2018 Mr. Scott initiated a wire of $1,250,000 to attorney James Nobles from the Unrestrained UBS Accounts for payment of legal fees. My understanding is that the planned transfer to Mr. Nobles was for the purpose of paying various counsel Mr. Scott sought to engage for his defense, including Covington.

5. On October 4, 2018 Assistant United States Attorney (“AUSA”) Christopher J. DiMase, joined by other Government counsel, called me and advised that that the Government had contacted UBS and that UBS had decided to block the transfer from the Unrestrained UBS Accounts. Counsel for UBS confirmed the same.

6. Because Mr. Scott was unable to access funds from the Unrestrained UBS Accounts or other sources, Covington withdrew from the case in November 2018 and was replaced by David Garvin and James Nobles.

7. Covington reappeared in the case on August 29, 2019 after Mr. Scott was able to raise some additional funds for his defense. Mr. Scott owes Covington legal fees of $1,104,169 for legal services in this case through October 2020.

(courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.482287/gov.uscourts.nysd.482287.344.3.pdf)

BTW, at the trial the Government alleged that those Scott’s post-arrest “legal retainer” transfers were in fact yet another scheme to launder OneCoin money:

Mr. Scott, after he was arrested in this case, sent $1.75 million to an attorney who is no longer on the defense team. And he claimed in the paperwork that he provided the banks that that was for a legal retainer, the entire $1.75 million. The government subsequently restrained that money.

He then sent another approximately million dollars through that same attorney’s accounts, and then had it sent back to him on the other end, which is very reminiscent of some of the conduct that was the subject of this trial, the use of escrow accounts to hide the illegal source of funds.

(courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.482287/gov.uscourts.nysd.482287.209.0.pdf)

Now, it turned out that a woman whom Mr Scott had defrauded before has a security interest on the bank account Scott wants to use to pay his standing Covington legal bills:

courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.482287/gov.uscourts.nysd.482287.346.0.pdf



#20

WhistleBlowerFin

Jan 4th, 2021 at 2:32 pm  WhistleBlowerFin(Q)

Update Jan 3, 2021:

perfil.com/noticias/cordoba/causa-onecoin-la-querella-espera-sumar-mas-pruebas-y-denunciantes.phtml



#21

Oz

Jan 4th, 2021 at 7:06 pm  Oz(Q)

Thanks for the update WhistleBlowerFin!



#22

Melanie from Germany

Jul 17th, 2021 at 7:20 pm  Melanie from Germany(Q)

Semjon: Kristina is said to be one of the gang of four who constitute the leadership of the current OneCoin “corporate”.

The other three are Veska Ignatov, Georgi Georgiev (the Ignatov crime family head accountant) and Vanya Angelova (Kristina’s law firm partner and Ignatov crime family lawyer).

@ Semjon

Who is Panayot Georgiev? Do you know this cheater?

– Entrepreneur, Co- founder of Sales Management

– OneCoin Investor Plovdiv

– Sales Manager OneCoin

– Sales Trader OneCoin since Mai 2016

OneCoin is the future of payments. The future of money is digital currency. Together everyone achieve more.

Together we participate in building our Marinchevs Network.

Together we go as a team and developing a large successful business. It is great!

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OneCoin scammer Panayot Georgiev removed the following photos from his profiles, but Google found them:

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Panayot Georgiev with glasses:

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linkedin.com/in/panayot-georgiev-611921117/?originalSubdomain=bg

linkedin.com/in/panayot-georgiev-2a652b121/?originalSubdomain=bg

If Panayot Georgiev lives in Plovdiv, now we know why the current scam event is taking place in this city, right?



#23

Melanie from Germany

Jul 18th, 2021 at 3:53 am  Melanie from Germany(Q)

Continuation.

Dimitar Marinchev, Sales Manager OneCoin since January 2015:

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linkedin.com/in/dimitar-marinchev-44998471/?locale=de_DE

This OneCoin scammer also removed the photo from his profile, but Google saved it:

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This photo from FB is clearer:

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#24

Melanie from Germany

Jul 23rd, 2021 at 11:23 pm  Melanie from Germany(Q)

Semjon: Kristina is said to be one of the gang of four who constitute the leadership of the current OneCoin “corporate”.

The other three are Veska Ignatov, Georgi Georgiev (the Ignatov crime family head accountant) and Vanya Angelova (Kristina’s law firm partner and Ignatov crime family lawyer).

A “Georgi” is mentioned in the domain registration of oneecosystem.eu. Is that the same person?

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A Gery Bacheva is mentioned in the domain registration of onelifecorp.eu. Does anyone know this person?

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