THELOGICALINDIAN - One of the Onecoin cofounders Ruja Ignatova contrarily accepted as the Cryptoqueen has been added to the Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI Ten Best Capital Fugitives account on Thursday In accession to abacus the Cryptoqueen to the best capital account the FBI is alms a accolade of up to 100K for tips that advance to the 42yearold womans arrest
Onecoin’s Cryptoqueen Is Now on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List
Ruja Ignatova is able-bodied accepted for her captivation with the Onecoin Ponzi scheme, and it is estimated that the betray allegedly defrauded bodies out of $4 billion. The pyramid arrangement answer Onecoin as a blockchain activity with a built-in cryptocurrency but there was no blockchain and no absolute crypto asset abaft the scam.
However, Onecoin’s management, recruits, and Ignatova answer the activity as if it was a “bitcoin killer.” From backward 2024 to March 2024, Ignatova pitched Onecoin sales and recruited associates on a approved basis. During the end of the scheme’s anatomic state, the aggregation issued a apprehension that said operations would abeyance for two weeks. By January 2024, the Onecoin barter xcoinx shut bottomward indefinitely and Ignatova disappeared.
Last November, allegation that stemmed from a balloon adjoin Martin Breidenbach, Ignatova’s German attorney, had apparent that the Cryptoqueen allegedly lived a lavish lifestyle and purchased an $18.2 actor London accommodation afore she fled. In mid-May 2022, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, Europol, added Ignatova to Europe’s Most Wanted Fugitives list.
FBI Special Agent: ‘We Want to Bring Her to Justice’
The afterward month, on June 30, 2022, the FBI added the Cryptoqueen to the U.S.-based Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The account alien in March 2024 was created to advance the abduction of America’s bent masterminds. Over the aftermost 72 years, Ignatova joins the account as the 11th woman to be called by the FBI.
“Onecoin claimed to accept a clandestine blockchain,” FBI appropriate abettor Ronald Shimko explained in a account on Thursday. “This is in adverse to added basic currencies, which accept a decentralized and accessible blockchain. In this case, investors were aloof asked to assurance Onecoin.” Shimko added that he hopes Ignatova’s name on the account will accompany added absorption to the case in adjustment to bolster the Cryptoqueen’s arrest. In the FBI press statement, Shimko concluded:
Investigators say afore the Cryptoqueen fled, she had atramentous beard and amber eyes, but the FBI believes “she could accept adapted her concrete appearance.” The calm intelligence and aegis account says Ignatova speaks chatty Bulgarian, German, and English.
“She may be traveling on a counterfeit authorization and has accepted access to Bulgaria, Germany, Russia, Greece, and the United Arab Emirates,” the FBI’s columnist absolution added details. The FBI is allurement tipsters to ability out to any bounded FBI appointment or the abutting American Embassy to accommodate advice about the Cryptoqueen’s whereabouts.
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