FBI announces $100K reward for information about cryptoqueen
OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova was listed among the ten most wanted criminals for defrauding investors of more than $4 billion
The FBI announced a reward of up to $100,000 for information that could help the bureau arrest OneCoin pyramid scheme founder Ruja Ignatova. For her involvement in a large-scale fraud scheme, the FBI listed Ignatova as one of the top 10 most wanted criminals.
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/ruja-ignatova/@@download.pdf
Bulgarian company OneCoin was founded by "cryptocurrency queen" Ruja Ignatova in 2014 and attracted more than 3 million people who invested about 4 billion euros in less than 3 years, according to the FBI.
The pyramid worked on the principle of network marketing: participants who came first received rewards for attracting new users. OneCoin was supposed to "kill bitcoin," but it didn't even have anything to do with blockchain. The cryptocurrency could not be mined and was issued exclusively by One Coin Limited.
A court in the United States issued an arrest warrant for Ignatova in October 2017. In February 2018, a new verdict was handed down: Ignatova was charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money.
Ignatova was last seen in October 2017, leaving Bulgaria for Greece. According to the FBI, the fraudster has a German passport and can travel with it in Germany, Russia, the UAE and Bulgaria.
Bank of New York Mellon, one of the oldest banks in the United States, notified the U.S. Financial Intelligence Unit (FinCEN) in 2017 of more than $137 million in suspicious transactions related to the cryptocurrency pyramid scheme OneCoin. Other banks, including HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Commerzbank, Bank of New York Mellon, and Standard Chartered, also reported suspicious transactions.
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