Cryptoqueen is the scammer who started the OneCoin crypto project in 2014. In 2017, she disappeared into thin air with 4 billion in client funds. She is one of the FBI’s most wanted people. By trying to sell a luxury property in London belonging to him, the search was relaunched even more.
Does Cryptoqueen need money?
Cryptoqueen has been living very clandestinely for five years and more. Indeed, she disappeared and is one of the ten most wanted people by the FBI. However, we all know how expensive living illegally is. Despite being accused of stealing 4 billion from her clients, Ruja Ignatova, her real name, allegedly tried to put a London Penthouse up for sale. We learned by DailyHodl that the property was offered at $15.49 million. Then the price rose to $13.6 million. On paper, the penthouse is owned by Aquitaine Group Limited, a Guernsey-based wealth management company. Unfortunately, UK law now requires knowing the ultimate beneficiary of a transaction. When it turned out to be Ruja Ignatova, the transaction was blocked.
It later turned out that it was not Ruja who tried to sell him, but rather the justice of Bielefeld, a city in the North West of Germany. ” Initially, we were trying to avoid the money going back to the people behind the scam. It’s our first idea, withdraw the money earned by crime said Attorney General Gerald Ruebsam.
” It is not yet clear if the money will go to OneCoin investors, we have to wait and see how things progress “, he added.
Cryptoqueen and OneCoin, the crypto scam of the century?
Ruja Ignatova, a PHD holder, started OneCoin in 2014 just as bitcoin was getting seriously popular. She then presented her OneCoin as a serious alternative to bitcoin. It later turned out to be just a vast Maslow pyramid. When the FBI discovered the scam, she disappeared. Her husband and partner in the scam, Sebastian Greenwood, has since pleaded guilty to money laundering in US courts. He is expected in Thailand where he faces 60 years in prison.
The device deployed by Ruja and his accomplices to deceive investors and miners is impressive. In addition to being wanted by the FBI, she is also wanted by Europol. Could she be hiding in her native Bulgaria or in a paradise for crypto-fraudsters? In any case, it will have succeeded in setting up one of the best crypto scams.
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