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OneCoin Crypto Queen Ignatova Added to Europol Most Wanted List



 Ruja Ignatova, the self-proclaimed crypto queen and founder of OneCoin, has been added to Europol's Most Wanted List.


Ignatova was the founder of OneCoin, which was touted as an alternative to Bitcoin . In reality, however, it was a Ponzi scheme that grew into one of the greatest scams in history.


The State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia (LKA NRW) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) have now launched a public search for Ignatova.


“The doctorate in law Dr. Ruja Ignatova is suspected of having prompted investors worldwide to invest in this actually worthless “currency” as the driving force and intellectual inventor of the supposed cryptocurrency “OneCoin”, according to the BKA statement .


Interpol also published a Red Note : “Ruja Ignatova, the so-called “crypto queen”, is wanted by the German BKA for fraud and money laundering.” In addition to the Red Note, a €5,000 reward has been offered for information leading to Ignatova's arrest.


OneCoin founder missing since 2017

The BKA report shows that Ignatova was last seen at Athens Airport in October 2017. She was picked up there by two Russian-speaking men and disappeared without a trace. The BKA assumes that Ignatova may have changed her face using plastic surgery and is living in secret.


So far, most of Ignatova's suspected associates have been arrested or are in prison. Including OneCoin co-founder Karl Sebastian Greenwood, Ignatova's brother Konstantin, her company lawyer Mark Scott, and her lover Gilbert Armenta.


Journalist Mike Bartlett has been searching for the 41-year-old Bulgarian, who has already had her citizenship revoked, since 2019.


"She's one of the biggest criminals in the world," said Bartlett, who sees her system second only to Bernie Madoff. “White-collar crime is sometimes not taken as seriously as violent crime. However, this scam was worth at least billions of pounds, bankrupting people and destroying families around the world,” Bartlett told Vice.


Called for manhunt

In the ZDF program Aktenzeichen XY , a public manhunt was published together with the LKA, Interpol and Europol. Law enforcement efforts were seen as a step in the right direction to bring Ignatova to justice.


OneCoin was founded in 2014 by Ignatova and Sebastian Greenwood with the help of investors. They told investors that the new cryptocurrency is “faster, safer and cheaper” than Bitcoin . Authorities quickly became suspicious and warned the public not to invest in the project.


In 2015, the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission warned about possible risks related to OneCoin. Shortly thereafter, authorities in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Latvia also issued similar warnings. Some have already started prosecuting people associated with OneCoin.


The Daily Mirror called it "a get-rich-quick scam" while The Times called it "one of the biggest scams in history".


Ignatova's brother, Konstantin, was arrested along with Greenwood. They both pleaded guilty to money laundering and fraud. However, the “crypto queen” remains on the run.


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