And plus, as an application, it doesn't need a server behind it. But to me it symbolises something else too. Daniel is one of thousands of Ugandans who've bought into Dr Ruja's fake cryptocurrency - and the OneCoin financial documents leaked to the BBC reveal that as time went on, investors like him became increasingly important to OneCoin. If it's true she was in these countries earlier this year, she probably has a fake identity. Read about our approach to external linking. We should try to get the tracker off it, he says, and he doesn't appear to be joking. (And I, at the top, would be making a cut on all the sales. "So we need you to build a blockchain," he went on. Beginning in . Ms Ignatova, a 42-year-old Bulgaria-born German national, disappeared on 25 October 2017 after being tipped-off about intensifying police investigations into her Sofia-based scam. No wonder it spread like wildfire. 2023 BBC. The fact that OneCoin was operating internationally also created difficulties for the authorities. [17], On 25 October 2017 Ignatova disappeared after being tipped off about increasing police investigations about OneCoin. It's thought to be a key anti-corruption tool. I ask her how much she earned from selling OneCoin and she says it was 3,000 - 1,800 of which she received in cash, and which she used to buy more OneCoin. [20], Afterward, the North Rhine-Westphalia Police and German Federal Criminal Police Office announced that Ignatova is sought for fraud charges. Missing Cryptoqueen joins FBI ten most wanted, Revealed: The Cryptoqueen's 13.5m London penthouse. I show his results to Bullough, who immediately notices how many British companies there are. In an interconnected global economy, assets can simply vanish, and you end up chasing shadows. he shouts. Back July 2018 he was arrested in Koh Samui, Thailand, and extradited to the US where he pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money. People involved at the early stages have told him it was never supposed to be a billion-dollar scam. Officers from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Dubai and Bulgaria were also present. That's the most important thing of all," he says. List of fugitives from justice who disappeared, " 41- , ", "Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then ran", "The mystery of the disappearing 'Cryptoqueen', "The 4bn OneCoin scam: how crypto-queen Dr Ruja Ignatova duped ordinary people out of billions then went missing", "Is OneCoin The Biggest Financial Fraud in History? Then we started looking at some old photos of Ruja, and spotted one friend who appeared with her all the way back to 2011. In August this year, the City of London police ended a two-year investigation into OneCoin. It's hard to say.". "When prophecy fails they believe more strongly," she says. For a long time, people have tried to create a form of digital money independent of state-backed currencies. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Every time a Bitcoin is sent from me to someone else, a record of that transaction goes into everyone's book. Ruja Ignatova, also known as the "missing Cryptoqueen", received police information about investigations into her $4bn (3.5bn) cryptocurrency fraud before she disappeared, it is claimed. Now a hit podcast is stepping up the search for the international scam artist, writes Tanya Sweeney Ignatova was a convincing speaker. One week later McAdam bought a "tycoon" package, for 5,000. Its understood Ignatova purchased the property under a company name, but a new rule means that the beneficiary of said company must also be named in full. The BBC asked the ministry whether its staff could be responsible for the leak, but it did not comment. They don't have a blockchain today. The nature of MLM networks - where people often recruit others who are close to them - creates a blurred sense of responsibility. From Pakistan to Brazil, from Hong Kong to Norway, from Canada to Yemen even Palestine. At the gated entrance to their mansion is a 10ft-high wrought iron gate with their names and the slogan "What dreams may come". (Source: Indias Magazine) The pair are blessed with one daughter. DeSantis won't say he's running. She earned a law degree from Oxford University and a PhD in private international law from. Nobody knew why she wasn't there," recalls one delegate. Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency and is still the biggest and best-known - its rise in value from a few cents to hundreds of dollars per coin by mid-2016 had given rise to a frenzy of excitement among investors. It seemed like easy money. She never appeared. "You're in at such an early stage and it's just going to go like Bitcoin. And, most frustratingly of all, she correctly guessed that by the time we realised it, she'd be gone, along with the money. A small beaten down van parked in front and was filled with various office equipment and supplies. Yet a typical recruiting event would include no education, but plenty of discussion about investing in cryptocurrency. pic.twitter.com/Qv2nNE8Mwf. Author's note: I am not an expert in cryptocurrencies. He has denied obtaining the documents and said: "When the Bulgarians participated at certain Europol meetings, it only took hours for her to get a complete rundown and get the minutes of what was said in those meetings. (Her) lies were designed with one goal, to get everyday people all over the world to part with their hard-earned money.. Igor Alberts, the MLM kingpin, said he'd heard she has Russian and Ukrainian passports and travels back and forth between Russia and Dubai. [16] In 2014, she founded a pyramid scheme called OneCoin. The self-styled crypto queen, however, is now wanted by law enforcement for her involvement in the OneCoin scheme. This proved to be fraudulent and she was sentenced to 14 months suspended jail sentence. Jen McAdam has a fiery Skype call with cryptocurrency enthusiast Tim Curry. Today doors are locked. She would urge and convince simple people to invest in OneCoin and not be left out of the huge potential profits. "They still exist", he says, in his garden near the village of Hay-on-Wye. The self-styled cryptoqueen even posted a video one week after the birth of her daughter, thanking people for their support and gifts. "Look, nothing has happened. You've heard of Google, but there are several other search engines that specialise in this. The head office in Sofia, where she was such an imposing presence, didn't know anything either. Did we get close to her? Another lead comes our way when we pay a visit to a bizarre OneCoin beauty pageant in Bucharest. Backstage at London's Wembley Arena, Dr. Ruja Ignatova was nervously pacing up and down, dressed, as usual, in a full-length ball gown. In March 2016 it was announced that the exchange would be closing down for two weeks for maintenance. A cryptocurrency start-up from Bulgaria was looking for a chief technical officer. "British companies are the companies of choice," he comments. The police documents were passed to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast by Frank Schneider, a former spy and trusted adviser to Ms Ignatova. "You are so lucky that you're seeing this webinar right now," she was told. Bishop Fred, we learned, is now one of the country's top promoters of OneCoin, though he says it's no longer promoted during church services. She feels guilty towards those who she introduced to OneCoin, she says, but also towards her late father, a miner, who worked hard all his life in horrible conditions, and left her the money that she then gave away. Lots of money. There is a BBC Sounds podcast called "The Missing Cryptoqueen." Everything is meant to be transparent - the website contains the details of every company in the UK. Ruja Ignatova profile summary Full name: Ruja Ignatova Date of birth: 30th May 1980 Place of birth: Sofia, Bulgaria Hometown: Schramberg, Baden-Wrttemberg state, Germany Zodiac Sign: Taurus Age: 41 years Company: OneCoin Nationality: Bulgarian Ethnicity: Caucasian Parents: Veska and Plamen Ignatov Sibling: Konstantin Ignatov Dr Ruja identified several of society's weak spots and exploited them. The company went bankrupt shortly after its acquisition. And McAdam's leader prepared her carefully for conversations with OneCoin sceptics. The 42-year-old Bulgarian-born woman is wanted for her alleged role in running a cryptocurrency scam known as OneCoin. In early October 2016 - four months after Dr Ruja's London appearance - a blockchain expert called Bjorn Bjercke was called by a recruitment agent, with a curious job offer. A few weeks after our meeting Alan gets back in touch, with some amazing information. FBI records presented in court documents earlier this year indicate that on 25 October 2017, just two weeks after her Lisbon no-show, she boarded a Ryanair flight from Sofia to Athens. So with Georgia Catt, producer of The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, I went to see Oliver Bullough, an expert on what he calls Moneyland - the shadowy parallel world where criminals and the super-rich hide their wealth. It's also notorious for exaggerated promises of high earnings and tough sales targets. It meant Ignatova was kept out of public records and land registry deeds until now. It's easy as that.". In June 2022, she was added to the FBI's 10 most wanted list. Dr Ruja had vanished. "I said to Andreea, 'We need to build it up to 100 million coins, because when this coin goes to 100 and we have 100 million, we are richer than Bill Gates.' "I'm devastated for all the UK victims," Jen McAdam told me, when she heard the news. It's mathematic. That meant that investors could no longer trade their OneCoins and retrieve their investments. From either Greece or Romania Dr Ruja could be extradited to the US. As the money started drying up in Europe, promoters turned more and more to countries like Uganda. Europol said it was looking into the issue. Some sources think it could be four times that amount. Her biggest aspiration was just to be rich. 1 EuGVO Chancen und Perspektiven der Reform des Gerichtsstands am Erfllungsort, which discusses lex causae in conflict of laws. But when Daniel found out about OneCoin, it suddenly seemed like a much better alternative. Amazingly, even after this, OneCoin continued to function - and people continued to invest in it. The UK began to insist recently that companies must enter the name of the person with "significant control" - the real owner. But besides loving books, he was also a master book thief. ', "I said: 'What? But though she has stopped recruiting, many others haven't, and there are still plenty of interested buyers, she says. 2023 BBC. According to Bjercke, Dr Ruja never expected OneCoin to grow so big. This was to be resolved at a large gathering of European OneCoin promoters in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2017. She asks what news we have about OneCoin. "I was thinking: 'What is my job going to be? Several of the people Georgia and I interviewed spoke darkly about mysterious people and connections they didn't want to name. "We made in our first month almost 90,000 out of nothing. You think, 'Wait a bit longer. Another tip he gives us is to find out where she has been on her yacht. This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 21:13. [24], The Federal Bureau of Investigation added Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, and announced at a joint press conference with IRS Criminal Investigation and United States Attorney's Office Southern District of New York, offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to her arrest. She watched excitedly on the OneCoin website as the value of her coins steadily rose. Phil and Georgia both recruit two people, and then all four of them recruit two more, and so on. The. Jen McAdam on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, The video of Dr Ruja at the Economist conference was what clinched it for Jen McAdam, Igor Alberts and Andreea Cimbala outside their house, Daniel, Prudence and Jamie with children in the poor area of Kampala where Prudence works as a nurse, Dr Ruja was renowned for expensive dresses and red lipstick, Dr Ruja posted a video of herself with her baby on social media, Dr Ruja comes on stage at Wembley to the song This Girl Is On Fire. "Particularly if you have invested something, not only money, but belief, reputation, intelligence. It emerged during a money-laundering trial in. However, in October 2017, the scammer completely vanished as authorities circled and she hasnt been seen since. The force has provided assistance to foreign law enforcement partners in respect of their investigations concerning OneCoin personnel and will continue to do this. I sell a box to my friends, Georgia and Phil, and make a small cut. They'd read, with envy, the stories of people striking gold with Bitcoin and thought OneCoin was a second chance. Dr Ruja Ignatova has been charged with wire fraud, security fraud and money laundering, by the US authorities By Jamie Bartlett Presenter, The Missing Cryptoqueen In June 2016, Dr Ruja. Between August 2014 and March 2017 more than 4bn was invested in dozens of countries. You told me it was a cryptocurrency company.'". But there was something wrong. At first she was told it was something she didn't need to know, but when she persisted she finally got the truth in a voicemail in April 2017. On the other hand, Ruja and her collaborators amassed millions, which provided them with an affluent lifestyle: they bought luxury yachts, expensive jewelery and exclusive properties. She would have known that we were looking for her, he added, and she would have laughed at us. She is best known as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as OneCoin, which The Times has described as "one of the biggest scams in history". But then I recruit Georgia and Phil to start selling too, and I make a cut on their sales as well. Some are divorced.". The 16th century English buccaneer Sir Francis Drake died without heirs and this has inspired many to search for his supposed fortune, and others to swindle fortune hunters. She could hear the whoops and cheers of thousands of adoring fans in the background. Previously, the property belonged to a company called Abbots House Penthouse Limited, based in Guernsey, a well-known tax haven with very little government oversight. The article follows the life of a woman who started with the best possible education and a gifted personality, but threw it all away by making the worst possible life choices. So we start unearthing previous addresses, known friends, old phone numbers, anything that could help us. THE FBI has added a Bulgarian woman dubbed the 'Crypto Queen' to its infamous 10 most wanted list after she stole billions in the biggest scam EVER. Several days ago, a penthouse apartment in the London suburb of Kensington, England, went up for sale with an asking price of 12.5 million [$15.5 million] which was then downgraded to 11 million [$13.6 million]. The documents show attendees from Bulgaria's Interior Ministry at the March 2017 Europol meeting. He told us we were right - Frankfurt is indeed where she spends much of her time. Some are hiding. ", The webinar hosts talked about Dr Ruja's glittering background: Oxford University, a PhD from Konstanz, a stint with the respected management consultancy, McKinsey and Company A speech Dr Ruja had given at a conference hosted by The Economist magazine was shown - and that's what clinched it for McAdam. It was only earlier this year that the US authorities revealed she'd flown to Athens on 25 October 2017. In early June 2016 a 36-year-old businesswoman called Dr Ruja Ignatova walked on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thousands of adoring fans. In the Ntangamo region of Uganda, not far from Rwandan border, most people make their living growing bananas, or sometimes cassava, sweet potato, beans or groundnut. It represents the dark side of rapid technological change - the way that every new technology creates amazing new opportunities and possibilities for people who understand it, but also the chance to exploit the people who don't. We called the lawyer who is (or was) married to her, and he didn't want to talk. [12] She reportedly has also worked for McKinsey & Company. ", The City of London Police told the BBC: "There was insufficient evidence to support criminal proceedings against individuals based in the UK, though the force has never specified that there had been no concerns surrounding OneCoin. Around the same time, the US authorities charged Dr Ruja in absentia for wire fraud, security fraud and money laundering. OneCoin,. A court reporter was there to hear his testimony, and according to his account of the proceedings Ignatov appears to have implied that his sister had duped him with the same line the organisation put out to its investors - that OneCoin critics were "haters" who could not be believed. The FBI did not comment on the Europol documents, but Special Agent Paul Roberts told the podcast: "There were investigations all around the world into her, and into OneCoin generally, many of which she had become aware of due to actions by law enforcement in other countries.". She reportedly earned a PhD in private international law from the University of Constance and has a daughter who. In addition to losing their own money, they were the instigators for their loved ones to lose their investments as well. Big companies like Amway and Herbalife use these techniques. It's hard to know how much money has been put into OneCoin. They keep postponing this. He takes the first one on the list and looks it up on the Companies House website. Greatly feared for his use of violence, Silas Jayne operated in the very dark underworld of the champion horse business. Bjorn received 7.69 million euros which were transferred from Hong Kong. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. He clicks to see the company's filing history, but where you should see company accounts, there is nothing. "No other company even came close," Alberts says. Ms Ignatova disappeared on 25 October 2017 after being tipped off about intensifying police investigations into her OneCoin cryptocurrency. Jennifer McAdam, a 52-year-old Scottish single parent and businesswoman who fell victim to OneCoin fraud commented that she was pleased the FBI had added Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. And his targets were public libraries in America where he would masquerade as a "jolly," well-educated professor and ultimately pillage rare books to the tune of more than half a million dollars. [2][3][4] She is the subject of the 2019 BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen and the 2022 book of the same name. Read about our approach to external linking. He claims he has made 100m over the last 30 years. Hotels near Romer Hotels near Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof Hotels near Main Tower Hotels near Cathedral of St. Bartholomew (Dom St. Bartholomaus) Hotels near Stadel Museum Hotels near Palmengarten Hotels near Iron Bridge Hotels near Zoo Frankfurt Hotels near Senckenberg Natural History Museum (Naturmuseum Senckenberg) Hotels near Frankfurt am Main She was dressed, as usual, in an expensive. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Ruja Ignatova, the self-described "Cryptoqueen.". He didn't get it, and in December 2017 he quit. If it doesn't happen, life is hard.". But there was something very important these investors didn't know. "I did the calculation how many coins we needed to become the richest person on the planet," Igor says. I didn't even know what is a blockchain What doubt can I have?". At one, in July 2017, the American pop star Bebe Rexha performed a private set. It is a tale of 'greed and folly' perhaps even more scandalous than Holmes' billion-dollar Theranos bust-up. Dr. Ruja Ignatova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 30, 1980. But it is controversial, because usually only a small number of people make all the money. 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(She received a fine and a suspended sentence in October 2016.) So it's our blockchain technology, a SQL server with a database.". VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip, Ukraine war casts shadow over India's G20 ambitions, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. She studied at Oxford University and received a PhD in International Law from the University of Constance. This platform was launched after many delays. [27][28], Ignatova was married to the German lawyer Bjorn Strehl, with whom she had a daughter in 2016.[2][29]. After Jen McAdam invested into OneCoin she was constantly told she was part of the OneCoin "family". OneCoin has always denied wrongdoing. Frankfurt probably isn't the only place she goes - it might be one of several places, including perhaps Dubai and Russia. Members could later exchange these educational packages, ranging from 100 euros to 118,000 euros, for OneCoins. She had got hold of a "big passport", he said, and asked him to get her plane tickets to Vienna, then Athens. Facebook Previously, the property belonged to a company called Abbots House Penthouse Limited,. She started planning holidays and shopping trips. Mr Schneider denies obtaining the documents, which he says were passed to him on a USB memory stick by Ms Ignatova. [25] The FBI followed up with an episode of its podcast and YouTube series Inside the FBI devoted to Ignatova and the OneCoin case. It's a green light for the OneCoin scammers to continue and extort more money from innocent people in the UK and nothing has been done about it. In November 2019, a jury in Manhattan found Mark Scott, a lawyer for OneCoin, guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering and fraud of $400 million by concealing the ownership and source of the funds. In January 2022, police searched apartments and offices in Weilburg, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt am Main, Bad Homburg, Neu-Isenburg and Vaihingen. They live in an enormous house in an affluent neighbourhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. She can't bring herself to tell them the truth. Any criticism or awkward questions were actively discouraged. [14][15], In 2013, she was involved with a multi-level marketing scam called BigCoin. Some are running because they got loans from a bank. [11][failed verification] In 2005, she earned a PhD in private international law from the University of Constance in Germany with the dissertation Art. And if sellers have invested their own money, they are victims too. Investors who have worked hard their whole life and saved some money risked these savings, believing that by investing in OneCoin they could have a better future. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. They are desperate to get their hands on the conwoman, offering a $100,000 reward for intel that ultimately leads to her arrest. She is best known as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as OneCoin, which The Times has described as "one of the biggest scams in history". In 2014, 34-year-old Ignatova and Sebastian Greenwood, an expert in multi-level marketing, launched a cryptocurrency called OneCoin. But we need to keep going, we needed to find the house. He points out that he spent millions buying OneCoin, possibly more than anyone else. Maybe 1,000 wasn't enough? Dr Ignatova pulled off one of the world's biggest ever scams, based on her new cryptocurrency called 'OneCoin', before disappearing in 2017. Jamie Bartlett spent months investigating how she did it for the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, and trying to figure out where she's hiding. "You can never be blamed for believing in something. We've received your submission. Daniel translates, and his mother's reply comes back. This scam is estimated to be well over four billion dollars. The FCA said it had been up for long enough, but OneCoin promoters presented this as proof that the UK authorities considered OneCoin a legitimate investment. Nobody - not banks, not governments, or the person who invents it - is in charge or can change it. That was her last known location. One of the main OneCoin offices in Kampala is attached to a church. "We believe consumers should be wary of dealing with OneCoin," it said. Europol told the BBC it was looking into the matter, adding: "This complex scenario with many stakeholders makes it difficult to assess where and how such an incident might have occurred.". Money can buy a lot of friends, and I would imagine shes taking advantage of that.. For several months, a French journalist called Maxime Grimbert tried to unpick OneCoin's corporate workings, collecting as many company names and bank account details as he could. So she decided to invest her savings and the money from her inheritance from her father into OneCoin. They thought I ate their money.". She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. It was easy: you purchased OneCoin tokens, and these then generated coins, which went into your account. Not guilt," he replies. We soak up the atmosphere, cheer the British contestant, and then leave. And Peragon was owned by another company called Artefix, which was owned by Ruja's mother, Veska. Could she really be hiding out in the heart of the EU? In court, US prosecutors alleged in 2019 that Mr Schneider was the one who provided her with confidential police information, although it is not clear if the allegations relate specifically to the leaked files seen by the podcast. James Richard Shinn was a book lover. I don't want those people I introduced into OneCoin to see me moving around. Ignatova started to refer to herself as the Cryptoqueen. That's illegal That is an anonymous shell company, as anonymous as anything that you can buy anywhere in the Seychelles or Nevis or the Marshall Islands or Vanuatu.". It took McAdam three months to go through it all, but questions were starting to form. "When you talk about the amount of money that's been put into OneCoin of course there's people out there who are pissed off and would do anything to shut anyone like me up," says Bjorn Bjercke, the blockchain expert who discovered there was no blockchain, and started talking about it publicly. From that amount, he had collected $50 million in fees. Oliver describes this kind of dizzying arrangement as "improbably standard". Dr Ruja's genius was to recognise that established MLM sellers with huge downlines were the perfect vehicle to market her fake coin - a plan the FBI says she privately referred to as "the bitch of Wall Street, meets MLM". [5][6], Since 2017, Ignatova has been on the run from various international law enforcement agencies. The Onecoin Ponzi was a multi-level-marketing (MLM) venture that featured packages that were ostensibly tethered to a blockchain network. 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