THELOGICALINDIAN - A contempo adventure of the accepted BBC Sounds podcast the Missing Cryptoqueen has apparent the accessible a actual absorbing appearance of the able Onecoin Ponzi According to two assemblage the BBC interviewed a London law close and a acceptability administration aggregation allegedly managed to get the UKs Financial Conduct Authority FCA to booty bottomward a Onecoin warning
The Bulgaria-based Ponzi arrangement Onecoin was already declared by The Times as “one of the better scams in history” managing to net $4 billion from operations. The pyramid arrangement has become a hot topic over the years, and it’s invoked the BBC Sounds podcast the “Missing Cryptoqueen.”
The appearance stars the British columnist and journalist, Jamie Bartlett, and its additionally produced by the able-bodied accepted documentary ambassador Georgia Catt. The latest BBC Sounds podcast adventure 9, dives into the connected chase for Onecoin’s missing baton Ruja Ignatova, contrarily accepted as the ‘Cryptoqueen.’
During the episode, Bartlett explains how the Cryptoqueen’s brother, Konstantin Ignatov, has been alive with U.S. law enforcement. Ignatov told the cloister a account about Ruja’s accord with Gilbert Armenta and how Ruja allegedly took off with able Russians.
Then Bartlett discusses two individuals who had advice on a London law close and a “crisis administration PR company.” One of the men was a advocate called Gary Gilford and the added was a above Chelgate agent Simon Harris. Chelgate is the acceptability administration aggregation that evidently helped Onecoin abstain problems.
Both Gilford and Harris never met anniversary other, but they both told a account of how the London law close and Chelgate managed to get the FCA to abolish the Onecoin admonishing issued in September 2024. Ten months later, the FCA warning, which warned retail investors about advance in the Onecoin project, was removed.
Harris explained that Chelgate formed with the law close in adjustment to “pressurize” the FCA into “weakening” the regulator’s efforts adjoin Onecoin. The assemblage say that the Cryptoqueen and abounding aerial up associates of the Ponzi were cool admiring with the FCA admonishing removal. The altercation with the above Chelgate agent Harris begins at the 22:00 minute mark during the “Missing Cryptoqueen” episode.
Meanwhile, one of the Onecoin leaders, Sebastian Greenwood had his pre-trial appointment on Friday. Matthew Russell Lee from the Inner City Press reported from the courtroom, and explained that Greenwood’s abutting cloister date will be on October 5. Greenwood has been answerable but the cloister seems to be accepting adversity with specific cloister processes. The attorneys say that “video conferences booty ten canicule to set up”
“We haven’t accustomed all of the analysis due to discussions of a pre-trial disposition,” Greenwood’s prosecutors said. “We’ve apparent him his own emails to appearance him his ability and captivation from the actual alpha of this artifice scheme.”
Additionally, it appears that Onecoin investors Donald Berdeaux and Christine Grablis accept agreed to settle with Konstantin Ignatov. The bulk of funds agreed aloft is not disclosed, but the two plaintiffs represent investors who suffered losses amid 2014-2018.
“Plaintiffs and actor Konstantin Ignatov (together, the “Parties”) ambition to abandon amid them after ageism the claims asserted adjoin Actor Ignatov while not adverse in any way Plaintiffs’ added case of their claims adjoin the added defendants in this action,” the cloister filing detailed.
The address from the Inner City Press additionally reveals that Konstantin Ignatov’s appeal accord is a bit of a mystery. “Now in August 2024 a catechism has arisen,” explains Lee’s report. “Where is Konstantin Ignatov? After his sentencing was appear aback four months from July 8, as Inner City Press reported, now his advocate in a filing in the civilian case Grablis v. Onecoin Ltd has asked for an addendum advertence ‘Mr. Ignatov is anon incarcerated.’”
“But the U.S. Bureau of Prisons website, for the one Konstantin Ignatov in the system, says ‘Released On: 03/13/2024,’” Lee’s address adds. Even back cooperators are in the clandestine GEO bastille the BOP uses, they are listed as incarcerated. So area is Konstantin Ignatov?” the anchorman asked.
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