"If I knew what I would have to go through, I would have never blown the whistle. But when it comes to someone trying to find them - whether that's a journalist or a police officer - they are invisible.". Following her studies, she became a consultant for McKinsey and Co. At first she was told it was something she didn't need to know, but when she persisted she finally got the truth in a voicemail in April 2017. The OneCoin founder is now wanted by . According to the BBC, farmers in Uganda sold their livestock and invested their money in OneCoin, hoping for a better life for their families and themselves. London, June 11, 2016. The US Department of Justice, New York County District Attorney's Office, and Dubai Police did not comment. But they have always failed because no-one could trust them. And even then, the question remained, where had she gone next? Bulgarian-born German citizen Ruja Ignatova, 42, and a business partner called Sebastian Greenwood conned crypto enthusiasts by claiming their crypto token, OneCoin, would be a Bitcoin killer. Finding people is his speciality, and there is one thing above all he says we should focus on. The now 42-year-old is thought to hold both Russian and Ukrainian passports and use a fake ID. For a long time, people have tried to create a form of digital money independent of state-backed currencies. In 2020, it was announced that Jennifer McAdam will be portrayed by Kate Winslet in an upcoming Hollywood film about the OneCoin fraud. She watched excitedly on the OneCoin website as the value of her coins steadily rose. Georgia suggests we tell Daniel's mother that we are journalists, and that we are investigating OneCoin because a lot of people aren't getting their money. Dr Ruja Ignatova offered a cryptocurrency of her own devising called OneCoin. It was easy: you purchased OneCoin tokens, and these then generated coins, which went into your account. pic.twitter.com/Qv2nNE8Mwf. When investors became members promoting OneCoin, they were getting a percentage margin on the proceeds from the people they had introduced and persuaded to invest in the company. At the gated entrance to their mansion is a 10ft-high wrought iron gate with their names and the slogan "What dreams may come". Backstage at London's Wembley Arena, Dr. Ruja Ignatova was nervously pacing up and down, dressed, as usual, in a full-length ball gown. Daniel took me and Georgia to meet Prudence, who first introduced him to OneCoin. He didn't get it, and in December 2017 he quit. "This is supposed to mean that you can no longer use a British company to hide behind," he says, as he scrolls down the page. Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is one of five financial routes Ignatova has known connections to. [12] She reportedly has also worked for McKinsey & Company. Both companies were founded by Ignatova and Greenwood. Find out who her friends were, what her lifestyle was like, her family.". However, in October 2017, the scammer completely vanished as authorities circled and she hasnt been seen since. She never appeared. Dr Ruja identified several of society's weak spots and exploited them. [2][7], Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, in 1980,[8] to a Romani family. The alleged murderer, Hristo Hristov, who is also Bulgarian, is currently serving time in a Dutch prison for drug trafficking. In November of the same year, he pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and fraud. The listing of a property in the heart of London has brought a notorious cryptocurrency fugitive who ran a $4 billion Ponzi scheme out of the woodwork. The power of the woman - well done! In her downtime she would throw parties on her luxurious yacht The Davina. "When you look at my clothes, they are disciplined," he says. [26], According to a report published by Bulgarian investigative reporting site Bird, Ignatova was murdered in November 2018 on the orders of a Bulgarian drug lord, Hristoforos Amanatidis, also known as "Taki". Read about our approach to external linking. 2023 BBC. Bjorn Bjercke is a blockchain expert and he was the first person who started speaking publicly against OneCoin. "Where's the support? On the run since 2017, Dr Ruja Ignat A towel covers the front door, and a few metres away is her land, where she grows her own food and sells anything left over at the local market. In 2012, she was convicted of fraud in Germany in connection to the acquisition of a steel company that she and her father acquired. It's mathematic. The only way to exchange these OneCoins for any other currency was through an internal marketplaceOneCoin Exchange, known as xcoinx. Prof Eileen Barker of the London School of Economics, who has spent years studying groups like the Moonies and Scientologists, says there are similarities between OneCoin and messianic millennium cults, where people believe they are part of something big that is going to change the world - and no matter what the evidence, once they've signed up, it's very hard for them to admit they are wrong. Another lead comes our way when we pay a visit to a bizarre OneCoin beauty pageant in Bucharest. The reason so many people are excited by Bitcoin is that it solves that problem. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. They didn't feel they were taking a risk, because they trusted Ruja and her education and work experience. Nobody knew why she wasn't there," recalls one delegate. He takes the first one on the list and looks it up on the Companies House website. And Peragon was owned by another company called Artefix, which was owned by Ruja's mother, Veska. OneCoin was a familiar scam with a digital twist - a new and hugely successful take on the old pyramid scheme. It's no surprise, then, that OneCoin's corporate structure is incredibly complicated. She had got hold of a "big passport", he said, and asked him to get her plane tickets to Vienna, then Athens. But when Daniel found out about OneCoin, it suddenly seemed like a much better alternative. So she decided to invest her savings and the money from her inheritance from her father into OneCoin. "That's what they call it. "If you have your money and it's taken away from you, life becomes stressful," she says. It said the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast "will not present any truthful information and cannot be considered objective, nor unbiased". Ms Ignatova disappeared on 25 October 2017 after being tipped off about intensifying police investigations into her OneCoin cryptocurrency. She is best known as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as OneCoin, which The Times has described as "one of the biggest scams in history". She is now on the FBIs list of the 10 most-wanted fugitives and is the only woman currently on the hit list. They don't have a blockchain today. They keep postponing this. Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency and is still the biggest and best-known - its rise in value from a few cents to hundreds of dollars per coin by mid-2016 had given rise to a frenzy of excitement among investors. It turned out to be a shouting match, but it would send McAdam's life in a new direction. Officers from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Dubai and Bulgaria were also present. "There's the answer, right from the horse's mouth, it's official," said one promoter from Alberta, Canada, in a video posted online. It seemed like easy money. From the very beginning, she was a gifted child and always at the top of her class. You can listen to episodes here. She understood that truth and lies are getting harder to tell apart when there is so much contradictory information online. And every item of clothing is Dolce and Gabbana. The promoters said it was the larger packages that were really life-changing. Members could later exchange these educational packages, ranging from 100 euros to 118,000 euros, for OneCoins. 66K views, 1.6K likes, 214 loves, 348 comments, 854 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Cryptoqueen: I would like to share some very personal and exciting news with you. Investors often told us that what drew them in initially was the fear that they would miss out on the next big thing. Dr. Ruja Ignatova was born in Bulgaria on May 30, 1980. The agency is also offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to her arrest. VideoRecord numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. People involved at the early stages have told him it was never supposed to be a billion-dollar scam. He said he could prove it, too. Some feared she'd been killed or kidnapped by the banks, who - they'd been told - had most to fear from the cryptocurrency revolution. But the motive of other people was simply being able to acquire a better life; people who worked long hours, people who did difficult physical labor, old people. The problem, he explains, is that following the money isn't as easy as it sounds, because criminals structure their companies and bank accounts in such a way that their assets seem to disappear. Charles Ponzi is remembered for creating the Ponzi scheme. But earlier this month, Ignatova reportedly came out of the woodwork to claim one of her properties. "There was no other way," he says ruefully. Listen to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast on BBC Sounds - the search for Dr Ruja Ignatova continues, with a new episode about the police leak out on 19 October. "They're very easy to set up and they look legitimate.". He will be sentenced in April and could receive up to 20 years in prison. she shouted. I am simply a concerned person who cannot tolerate injustice in any form. Phil and Georgia both recruit two people, and then all four of them recruit two more, and so on. Lots of money. MLM is not illegal. He clicks to see the company's filing history, but where you should see company accounts, there is nothing. the congregations replies. (And I, at the top, would be making a cut on all the sales. "We gathered the teams together and we started to work like crazy," he says. One Property was owned by another company called Risk Ltd. Risk Ltd was owned by Ruja, but was then transferred to some unnamed Panamanians, but it was still managed by another company called Peragon. On 6 March 2019 Konstantin Ignatov was at Los Angeles International airport, waiting to fly back to Bulgaria after some OneCoin meetings in the US. But it is controversial, because usually only a small number of people make all the money. "In two years, nobody will speak about Bitcoin any more!" At the age of 10, her family moved to Germany. The BBC was not able to verify all of the documents leaked. I will double your coins, I will double your coins. he shouts. DeSantis won't say he's running. "You must dig deeper.". Ruja Plamenova Ignatova ( Bulgarian: , romanized : Rua Plamenova Ignatova; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian -born German citizen and convicted fraudster. She started asking the leaders of her OneCoin group if there was a blockchain. Greatly feared for his use of violence, Silas Jayne operated in the very dark underworld of the champion horse business. It's hard to say.". To explain this, I need first to explain briefly how a cryptocurrency actually works. Listen to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, with Jamie Bartlett and producer Georgia Catt, on BBC Sounds. If nothing else it should make it easier for the authorities to freeze that asset and maybe even start getting money back to victims.. There are videos of the minister, known as Bishop Fred, leading the congregation in call and response. OneCoin was still growing fast, and Dr Ruja was starting to spend her new fortune: buying multi-million-dollar properties in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, and the Black Sea resort of Sozopol. She was condemned to 14 months suspended jail sentence. Technically it was owned by a company called One Property. Doors opened. She started planning holidays and shopping trips. She vanished, he said, because she was afraid that somebody close to her was going to give her up to the FBI. If anyone asks Prudence when the investment is going to deliver the promised riches, she tells them to wait. In early 2019, she was charged in absentia by U.S. authorities for wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering. The 42-year-old Bulgarian-born woman is wanted for her alleged role in running a cryptocurrency scam known as OneCoin. BBC News Ruja Ignatova, also known as the "missing Cryptoqueen", has been placed on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list. The. What's he waiting for? There are also investors who feel guilty. Jamie Bartlett spent months investigating how she did it for the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, and trying to figure out where she's hiding. Bjercke would get an apartment and a car - and an attractive annual salary of about 250,000. But by this stage, thanks to Curry and Bjercke, she knew that a standard SQL server database was no basis for a genuine cryptocurrency. The FBI launched their most wanted list in 1950 and of the 529 fugitives that have earned an honorable mention, shes one of just 11 women. Several days ago, a penthouse apartment in the London suburb of Kensington, England, went up for sale with an asking price of 12.5 million [$15.5 million] which was then downgraded to 11 million [$13.6 million]. ", I ask him why not. The stranger was Timothy Curry, a Bitcoin enthusiast and cryptocurrency advocate. In August this year, the City of London police ended a two-year investigation into OneCoin. His mother had doubts, but he persuaded her to put the money into OneCoin instead. Its working title is Fake! But towards the end of the year Jen McAdam was contacted by a stranger on the internet. [2][3][4] She is the subject of the 2019 BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen and the 2022 book of the same name. Amazingly, even after this, OneCoin continued to function - and people continued to invest in it. In October 2022, a documentary called "CryptoqueenThe OneCoin Scam" debuted at Mipcom Cannes. She had no computer or smartphone, to do her own research. 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There were limitations as to how many OneCoins could be exchanged for any other currency per day. Bjorn received 7.69 million euros which were transferred from Hong Kong. Thanks for contacting us. "She was on her way. Ruja's ambition was to create a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin for the ordinary person who was not an experienced investor, but who could invest a smaller amount of money and make a considerable profit. This proved to be fraudulent and she was sentenced to 14 months suspended jail sentence. Previously, the property belonged to a company called Abbots House Penthouse Limited, based in Guernsey, a well-known tax haven with very little government oversight. Others told us she was dead - which does remain a possibility. 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"What was her lifestyle? That was the last time anyone saw or heard from Dr Ruja. "I can't discuss that. According to the documents, the meeting was attended by the FBI, the US Department of Justice and the New York District Attorney. Armed with a microphone and several photographs of Dr Ruja, we headed off to Frankfurt and searched old addresses and gated neighbourhoods said to be the most expensive in Germany. Over the next hour or so she listened carefully to people talking enthusiastically about this exciting new cryptocurrency - how it could transform her fortunes. Jen McAdam has a fiery Skype call with cryptocurrency enthusiast Tim Curry. By contrast, Jen McAdam says she bears a heavy burden of guilt. OneCoin, Dr Ruja told the Wembley audience, was the "Bitcoin Killer". One day soon, she was told, she would be able to turn these coins back into euros or pounds. Taking seriously Alan McLean's advice about studying Dr Ruja's life before OneCoin, Georgia and I turn to the internet, which fortunately never forgets anything. When you're dealing with a scam worth billions of euros, it's not unusual for shadowy groups to get involved. She studied at Oxford University and received a PhD in International Law from the University of Constance. There were several old addresses in the Frankfurt area - ones she'd posted in forums many years ago, or were associated somehow with old phone numbers of hers. It's not clear who Bjorn and Igor are talking about, or whether they are even talking about the same people, but the US Department of Justice claims to have evidence of a link between Dr Ruja's brother, Konstantin Ignatov - who took over the running of OneCoin when Ruja disappeared - and "significant players in Eastern European organised crime". I don't want those people I introduced into OneCoin to see me moving around. Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished, BBC News, November 24, 2019, https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61966824, https://www.banklesstimes.com/news/2021/11/17/onecoin-alive-and-kicking-in-bulgaria-govt-assisted-crypto-pyramid-scheme/. Video, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, Listen to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast on BBC Sounds, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Prince Andrew offered Frogmore Cottage - reports, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Beer and wine sales in Canada fall to all-time low, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms. According to Bjercke, Dr Ruja never expected OneCoin to grow so big. "Some of their kids are at home sitting without going to school - some don't have anywhere to sleep. In 2014, 34-year-old Ignatova and Sebastian Greenwood, an expert in multi-level marketing, launched a cryptocurrency called OneCoin. We soak up the atmosphere, cheer the British contestant, and then leave. For its fans this is a revolutionary new form of currency, with the potential to sideline the banks and national currencies, and provide banking for anyone with a mobile phone. We will be there for a week and wanted to take various day trips as well as tour the actual city. A postman thought he recognised the name, but couldn't be sure. "Look, nothing has happened. "We made in our first month almost 90,000 out of nothing. She was dressed, as usual, in an expensive ballgown, wearing long diamond earrings and bright red lipstick. "You're told not to believe anything from the 'outside world'," she recalls. Twitter Ruja Ignatova was added to the FBI's Ten Most. In November 2021, her stake would have peaked at nearly $15 billion, but it has now dropped, still more than enough to help her stay hidden.". He introduced her to Bjorn Bjercke, the blockchain developer who said there was no blockchain. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which is responsible for regulating financial markets in the UK, issued a warning on its website only in September 2016. [14][15], In 2013, she was involved with a multi-level marketing scam called BigCoin. Although Jen McAdam had now seen the light, few other OneCoin investors had. In October 2017, Ruja was scheduled to appear in a OneCoin promotional event in Lisbon, Portugal. Jen McAdam on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, The video of Dr Ruja at the Economist conference was what clinched it for Jen McAdam, Igor Alberts and Andreea Cimbala outside their house, Daniel, Prudence and Jamie with children in the poor area of Kampala where Prudence works as a nurse, Dr Ruja was renowned for expensive dresses and red lipstick, Dr Ruja posted a video of herself with her baby on social media, Dr Ruja comes on stage at Wembley to the song This Girl Is On Fire. They have persuaded their friends and families to invest in OneCoin. Just as he was boarding his flight home, he was pounced on by FBI agents, arrested, and charged with fraud in connection with OneCoin. That's illegal That is an anonymous shell company, as anonymous as anything that you can buy anywhere in the Seychelles or Nevis or the Marshall Islands or Vanuatu.". Dr Ruja herself made a powerful impression too, with her "princess's dresses" and her vision of a financial revolution. Answer 1 of 6: Hello out there. But besides loving books, he was also a master book thief. That I don't know what they're thinking. Authorities say she may have. This was to be resolved at a large gathering of European OneCoin promoters in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2017. VideoRecord numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Some are hiding. Dr. Ruja Ignatova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 30, 1980. Frantic calls and messages went unanswered. "Well then prove it to me!" Files seen by the BBC from Europol meetings suggest the FBI-wanted fugitive knew about efforts to arrest her months before she vanished. "I've never told her directly that it's not going to work - that there is no more money, there's no more hope," he tells me. The self-styled crypto queen, however, is now wanted by law enforcement for her involvement in the OneCoin scheme. Men are drinking champagne from the bottle, everyone is eyeing us in a way that makes us feel very uncomfortable. They live in an enormous house in an affluent neighbourhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. He was arrested in March 2019 at LA Airport as he was about to board a flight to Bulgaria. He claims metadata on the files suggests she obtained the information via her own contacts in Bulgaria. And, most frustratingly of all, she correctly guessed that by the time we realised it, she'd be gone, along with the money. [20], Afterward, the North Rhine-Westphalia Police and German Federal Criminal Police Office announced that Ignatova is sought for fraud charges. She spotted that society's defence against OneCoin - the law-makers, the police, and also us in the media would struggle to understand what was happening. 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