THELOGICALINDIAN - The balloon of an American advocate accused of bed-making money for the belled OneCoin pyramid arrangement began in New York bygone The advocate is the aboriginal of three key players in the betray to face balloon However the architect selfstyled CryptoQueen RujaIgnatova is still on the run
Defendant Denies Any Wrongdoing
The lawyer, Mark Scott, aforetime a accomplice at Locke Lord LLP, denies affective hundreds of millions of dollars from the OneCoin arrangement into adopted accounts. He was arrested aloof over a year ago, for his role in the multi-billion dollar all-around pyramid scheme.
Formal accuse of cabal to accomplish money bed-making and coffer artifice were brought last month, back Scott appeal ‘not guilty’.
His defence is acceptable to articulation on his affirmation that, although he did move millions of dollars through the scheme, he was blind that it was a bent scheme. He alike claims to accept aloft several apropos about OneCoin, although to whom wasn’t specified.
The hearings are accepted to aftermost two to three weeks.
Ongoing OneCoin Court Action
Also adverse case are OneCoin co-founder, Sebastian Greenwood, who was arrested in Thailand aftermost year and extradited to the US, and Konstantin Ignatov. Ignatov is the brother of OneCoin founder, Ruja Ignatova, and was arrested at LAX airport beforehand this year.
Ruja Ignatova is still at large, but has been answerable in her absence with assorted counts of artifice and money laundering.
OneCoin is additionally actuality taken to cloister in a class-action lawsuit, brought by an broker who absent $103k to the scheme.
Despite all of this, OneCoin continues to action in assertive jurisdictions about the globe. It was afresh the accountable of a BBC Sounds documentary, apperception as to the abode of the Crypto-Queen.
Possibly active anonymous in Europe, accepting had all-encompassing facial reconstructive anaplasty application all the OneCoin money… in case you were interested.
Where do you anticipate the Crypto Queen is hiding? Add your thoughts below!
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