Where is the OneCoin Sork Ignatova

From the crypt of Queen to the global fugitives: OneCoin Seems of Ignat’s disappeared with billions, leaving the mystery still unresolved.

Eight years The world was speculating about the fate of the Ignat’s fate: the so-called “cryptocueeen” disappeared with billions after throwing OneCoinThe classic ponzian scheme, leaving behind a trace of lies, lawsuits and mystery that refuses to die.

Cripto.News talked to those who deeply dug into her story to take their place where it may be now.

Shortly on her background as a context: He was born in May 1980. In Bulgaria, Ruja Ignatom moved to Germany with family at the age of ten, settlement in Schramberg, Baden-Wurttemberg. Higher education was in 2005. he achieved a doctorate in private international law from the University of Constanta. She even had a short academic grip at the University of Oxford.

Before you move on to embarrassment as “Criptokueen”, Ignatova worked in McKinsey & Company as a consultant. However, her business ventures soon took a questioning reversal. In 2012. year, her father, flame Ignatov, were convicted of fraud in Germany related to procurement and subsequent bankruptcy firm.

“Next Bitcoin”

It may not be widely known, but OneCoin was not the first endeavor of ignat’s in the CRIPTO.

In 2013, it was included in a multi-level marketing fraud called BigCoin. Reports indicate It was Bigcoin launches John Ng and based in Hong Kong, with a project that placed the usual MLM cryptocurrency warm: “We will be the next bitcoin.”

It is not clear when at some point the project joined Ronnie Skold, Sebastian Greenwood, Nigel Allen and Ruja Ignatova. A short story, Bigcoin failed, as it turned out to be an ordinary Ponzi scheme, which was at all without blocks. By 2014, Ignadova left Bigcoin to find a new endeavor with Sebastian Greenwood, a more familiar world as OneCoin.

Another attempt

While Ruja Ignato was Mastermind behind the project, Sebastian Greenwood was a key figure in OneCoin operations. Unlike Ignat’s, however, Greenwood was arrested 2018. years and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Two branded OneCoin as a revolutionary cryptocurrency ready to kill Bitcoin. Through high events and convincing marketing, they convinced thousands – if not millions – to invest, raise estimated $ 4 billion worldwide. And still, like Bigcoin, OneCoin also worked on any blocks, leading to the project collision three years after launch.

In the run?

As the authorities doubled to their investigations, ignaška disappeared. In October 2017, she boarded flight from Bulgaria, Greece and … she disappeared. Without a trace. Over the years, theories of its destiny ranged from surgical changes in the assassination of the mafia. Some reports even propose If she was killed in the Yonese Sea of ​​Yacht on the order of Bulgaria’s crime, with her body allegedly scheduled and rejected.

Also the rumors that Ignato may have actually been on the run, hiding in South Africa, Dubai or Even in Russia.

The German documentary film film Johan Von Mirbach, who directed the investigating documentary film 2022. YearsCriptokueen – Velika Prevara OneCoin“He doesn’t buy theories about the deaths of Ignat’s. In an interview with Cripto.News, Mirbach said he doesn’t believe in her death, because there are too many” failed efforts to lie false tracks about her residence. “

“I talked to sources of security from South Africa and Germany. There are investigations in South Africa. It could be in South of Dubai, even though it is still alive because there are so many failed efforts to lie fake songs about her residence.”

Johan von Mirbach

In June 2022. Years, FBI placed Ignat’s ten most wanted fugitive lists, initially offer a $ 100,000 award for information leading to her arrest. By June 2024. years, it is a fortune rose to $ 5 million. As Ignan’s inflicts do not exist clear, legal proceedings surrounded by its name continues to these days.

New opportunity

For example, in August 2024. year, the High Court in London issued The world order for freezing on the property associated with Ignatov and its associates after the discovery, which have invested in luxurious properties in the United Arab Emirates, including 2.7 million dollars in Dubai from $ 2.7 million.

By the end of 2024 years, investigators focused Their search on Cape Cape, South Africa, with speculations lived in exclusive enclaves under false identity.

However, new reports in November 2024 suggest that Ignatova can instead hide in Russia. According to Journalists, Iordan Tsalova, who specializes in Kremlin’s jobs and worked with Bellingcat, Dutch investigative journalistic groups, Ignatova has to do with individuals related to the Russian government.

Tsalov says these ties have confirmed former Security Advisor Ignatov, Frank Schneider, a former Swiss intelligence officer who hired OneCoin and later interviewed From Tsalov for the BBC series.

Commenting on the scope of Oneecoin Fraud, Mirbach says the crypto industry is “amazing space” not only for new companies, but also for criminals that could get “much more than with simple analog scams”.

“They can only scale their fraud to another level. The same mechanism promoting and increasing online / digital online boots. Mobsters will also enter the news of unexplored and unregulated markets and follow what comes.”

Johan von Mirbach

Mirbach says he just waits for “first fraud guided according to this new occasion.”