THELOGICALINDIAN - Officials of the Bank of Ireland BOI are set to affirm adjoin a arch amateur in the declared OneCoin crypto Ponzi betray afore a US court
BOI Employees to Point the Finger at OneCoin Principal Actor
According to FinanceFeeds, four accomplished and present advisers of the BOI will serve as witnesses for the U.S. government in its case adjoin Mark Scott. Together with Konstantin Ignatov and Ruja Ignatov, Scott stands accused of money bed-making in the OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
Diane Sands — one of the four witnesses, is the anti-money bed-making (AML) arch at the BOI. According to reports, Scott helped carry over $300 actor from the OneCoin betray application the BOI.
Scott allegedly maintained a accumulated annual with the coffer and acclimated this accord to adulterate the antecedent of funds to BOI officials. Greg Begley — the fourth witness, is accepted to abide acute affirmation attached Scott to the armamentarium transfers.
In total, Scott stands accused of funneling added than $400 actor in gain from the OneCoin scam. Scott additionally reportedly absent some the money to acquirement claimed affluence items like mansions, yachts, and high-end cars.
All four assemblage will affirm afore the cloister via two-way CCTV from an bearding location. Scott’s balloon will reportedly arise in aboriginal November 2024.
The case at the alpha of September anchored an break blame affairs from October 7 to its new date in November to adapt abundantly for the trial.
Back in June 2019, OneCoin arch Konstantin Ignatov pleaded “not guilty” to charges of cabal to accomplish wire fraud.
End of the Road for Suspected Crypto Fraudsters?
‘Cryptoqueen’ and face of the OneCoin betray Ruja Ignatov abolished in 2017 and charcoal at large. Before her activity off the grid, she evangelized the fraudulent scheme in several countries about the world. Ruja has back been served in absentia with a agnate allegation of money laundering.
OneCoin, arguable one of the better crypto Ponzi schemes in history reportedly defrauded its victims of added than $4.9 billion from bags of investors. As ahead appear by Bitcoinist, one victim alike absent $103,500.
In abounding ways, the OneScam mirrors the accepted Russian Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox (MMM) Ponzi scheme. Thus, alike afterwards letters of the artifice actualization on the account circuit, the arrangement manages to resurface ambidexterity alike added biting victims.
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