It's easy as that.". You told me it was a cryptocurrency company.'". The power of the woman - well done! 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. "Well then prove it to me!" VideoRecord numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. She studied at Oxford University and received a PhD in International Law from the University of Constance. She understood that truth and lies are getting harder to tell apart when there is so much contradictory information online. They were shown photographs of her numerous degrees, and copies of Forbes magazine with her portrait on the front cover. In November of the same year, he pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and fraud. In January 2022, police searched apartments and offices in Weilburg, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt am Main, Bad Homburg, Neu-Isenburg and Vaihingen. (She received a fine and a suspended sentence in October 2016.) But then I recruit Georgia and Phil to start selling too, and I make a cut on their sales as well. "I can only deduce that it came from the circles that she was in and the connections that she had through a variety of influential personalities.". Ignatovas brother, Konstantin Ignatova, took over the operation after she fled. She now runs Whatsapp support groups for OneCoin investors who realise they have been swindled. I ask her how much she earned from selling OneCoin and she says it was 3,000 - 1,800 of which she received in cash, and which she used to buy more OneCoin. 2023 BBC. I will double your coins, I will double your coins. I am simply a concerned person who cannot tolerate injustice in any form. In the Ntangamo region of Uganda, not far from Rwandan border, most people make their living growing bananas, or sometimes cassava, sweet potato, beans or groundnut. He told us we were right - Frankfurt is indeed where she spends much of her time. (And I, at the top, would be making a cut on all the sales. The alleged motive for the murder was to conceal the drug lord's involvement in the OneCoin scam. [25] The FBI followed up with an episode of its podcast and YouTube series Inside the FBI devoted to Ignatova and the OneCoin case. Ignatov and Greenwood could face a maximum sentence of 90 years in prison. OneCoin was a familiar scam with a digital twist - a new and hugely successful take on the old pyramid scheme. You can also see more on the next episode of BBC Click. 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. She knew there would be enough people either desperate enough, or greedy enough, or confused enough to take a bet on OneCoin. Did we get close to her? She vanished, he said, because she was afraid that somebody close to her was going to give her up to the FBI. I explain that this is probably beyond my abilities (apart from being illegal). All over the world, people were already investing their savings into OneCoin, hoping to be part of this new revolution. But we need to keep going, we needed to find the house. If you believe you have been a victim of fraud in relation to OneCoin or you suspect someone of actively marketing OneCoin, please come forward and report it to Action Fraud online.". Back July 2018 he was arrested in Koh Samui, Thailand, and extradited to the US where he pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money. she shouted. The Forbes cover isn't: it was actually an inside cover - a paid-for advertisement - from Forbes Bulgaria, but once the real cover was ripped off, it looked impressive. Documents leaked to the BBC show that British people spent almost 30m on OneCoin in the first six months of 2016, 2m of it in a single week - and the rate of investment could have increased after the Wembley extravaganza. Another tip he gives us is to find out where she has been on her yacht. For a long time, people have tried to create a form of digital money independent of state-backed currencies. 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.". In 2020, it was announced that Jennifer McAdam will be portrayed by Kate Winslet in an upcoming Hollywood film about the OneCoin fraud. The FCA did not respond to the BBC's request to comment. A cryptocurrency start-up from Bulgaria was looking for a chief technical officer. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. As the money started drying up in Europe, promoters turned more and more to countries like Uganda. One week later McAdam bought a "tycoon" package, for 5,000. As a result, lawyers representing Ignatova made a formal claim on the property, listing her as the apartments beneficial owner in a filing with the UKs financial regulator. "I said to Andreea, 'We need to build it up to 100 million coins, because when this coin goes to 100 and we have 100 million, we are richer than Bill Gates.' 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". "And he said: 'Well, first of all, they need a blockchain. The reason so many people are excited by Bitcoin is that it solves that problem. Files seen by the BBC from Europol meetings suggest the FBI-wanted fugitive knew about efforts to arrest her months before she vanished. Why did the FCA drop its Cryptoqueen scam warning? Following her studies, she became a consultant for McKinsey and Co. The US lawyer prosecuting Ignatova, Damian Williams, released a damning statement last month where he said her crypto tokens were useless. The police documents were passed to The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast by Frank Schneider, a former spy and trusted adviser to Ms Ignatova. When Georgia and I called them ourselves to check, they confirmed it. Read about our approach to external linking. "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. We will be there for a week and wanted to take various day trips as well as tour the actual city. 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. "Particularly if you have invested something, not only money, but belief, reputation, intelligence. The family had saved about 3,000 to buy a maize store so that Daniel's mother could stop spending every day in the fields. "We've been unable to identify UK-based assets, which could be used to compensate UK investors. The BBC was not able to verify all of the documents leaked. We had also visited the town of Waltenhofen in Bavaria, not far away, where she and her father bought a steelworks around a decade ago, an episode that led to her being tried for fraud. Igor Alberts, the MLM kingpin, said he'd heard she has Russian and Ukrainian passports and travels back and forth between Russia and Dubai. She never appeared. Dr Ruja identified several of society's weak spots and exploited them. Dr Ruja was still travelling the world to sell her vision - hopping from Macau to Dubai to Singapore, filling out arenas, pulling in new investors. Dr Ruja Ignatova offered a cryptocurrency of her own devising called OneCoin. Its understood Ignatova purchased the property under a company name, but a new rule means that the beneficiary of said company must also be named in full. the congregations replies. Bjercke would get an apartment and a car - and an attractive annual salary of about 250,000. That I don't know what they're thinking. A reward of $100,000 is offered by the FBI for information leading to her arrest. Men are drinking champagne from the bottle, everyone is eyeing us in a way that makes us feel very uncomfortable. The daughter, we were informed, might be in Frankfurt. It's a green light for the OneCoin scammers to continue and extort more money from innocent people in the UK and nothing has been done about it. The FBI did not comment on the Europol documents, but Special Agent Paul Roberts told the podcast: "There were investigations all around the world into her, and into OneCoin generally, many of which she had become aware of due to actions by law enforcement in other countries.". Bjorn Bjercke is a blockchain expert and he was the first person who started speaking publicly against OneCoin. In October 2022, a documentary called "CryptoqueenThe OneCoin Scam" debuted at Mipcom Cannes. In this legal case, it is claimed that Ignatova acquired about 230,000 bitcoins, the largest known transaction for bitcoins, worth $48.5 million, from an Emirati royal in 2015. At the age of 10, her family moved to Germany. We soak up the atmosphere, cheer the British contestant, and then leave. Money can buy a lot of friends, and I would imagine shes taking advantage of that.. When we started planning the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast in late 2018, no-one really had a clue what happened to Dr Ruja after her disappearance. This was to be resolved at a large gathering of European OneCoin promoters in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2017. "Look, nothing has happened. Another lead comes our way when we pay a visit to a bizarre OneCoin beauty pageant in Bucharest. Dr Ruja had vanished. This was the secret of OneCoin's success. In court, US prosecutors alleged in 2019 that Mr Schneider was the one who provided her with confidential police information, although it is not clear if the allegations relate specifically to the leaked files seen by the podcast. This is also where Dr Ruja's husband - or perhaps ex-husband - lives and works. "She was on her way. [23] This listing was reciprocated by Europol adding Ignatova to its 'most wanted' list; however, Deutsche Welle notes that the Europol listing was removed under unknown circumstances. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. After Jennifer lost her money, she pursued Ignatova for six years and she was disappointed when the City of London police closed their investigation in 2019, saying they could not locate any assets of OneCoin or its founders in the UK. That meant that investors could no longer trade their OneCoins and retrieve their investments. "We made in our first month almost 90,000 out of nothing. His colleagues - also private investigators - visited top-end restaurants in Athens armed with photos of Ruja, and in one of them several waiters claimed to clearly remember her dining there earlier this year. It added that the allegations made about it around the world were being challenged, stating: "Our partners, our customers and our lawyers are fighting successfully against this action around the globe and we are sure that the vision of a new system on the basis of a 'financial revolution' will be established. When I ask him who might be behind the threats, he won't elaborate. That was her last known location. He claims metadata on the files suggests she obtained the information via her own contacts in Bulgaria. He doesn't seem certain it's a good idea. From a tiny fragment of a poster advertising a tennis tournament, an expert identified the park in which one photograph was taken. Here's an example: Ruja bought a very large property in central Sofia. 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. There are also investors who feel guilty. A small beaten down van parked in front and was filled with various office equipment and supplies. "It's hard. It took McAdam three months to go through it all, but questions were starting to form. The. ", "Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Leaders Of "OneCoin," A Multibillion-Dollar Pyramid Scheme Involving The Sale Of A Fraudulent Cryptocurrency", "BKA - Fahndung nach Personen - Ruja IGNATOVA", https://moneyweek.com/economy/people/605142/ruja-ignatova-profile-crooked-cryptoqueen, "The Outrageous Case of OneCoin, the Billion Dollar Scam Sold as a "Bitcoin Killer", "Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished", "OneCoin Took In Billions. Will she get her money back? US authorities have warned that Ruja Ignatova may have changed her appearance since going missing in 2017, FBI agents believe Ms Ignatova travels with armed guards or associates, Mr Schneider was interviewed by the BBC's Jamie Bartlett, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. What are the things that I'm going to have to do for this company?'" The agency is also offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to her arrest. Find out who her friends were, what her lifestyle was like, her family.". In early October 2016 - four months after Dr Ruja's London appearance - a blockchain expert called Bjorn Bjercke was called by a recruitment agent, with a curious job offer. "What's the name of the company?" It was easy: you purchased OneCoin tokens, and these then generated coins, which went into your account. In addition to losing their own money, they were the instigators for their loved ones to lose their investments as well. Today doors are locked. The police files contain presentations made at an "Operation Satellite" Europol meeting in The Hague on 15 March 2017. "Oh, hey presto, they haven't filed a person with significant control. It suggests she is still alive, and there are documents out there somewhere which contain vital clues as to her recent whereabouts. Ignatova was married to a German lawyer, with whom she had a daughter in 2016. I had no clue that it could be false. Even Google - 'Don't listen to Google!'" Founded and led by Dr Ruja Ignatova, a Bulgarian law PHD graduate and businesswoman, it grew quickly, often driven by hyperbolic public events. At the age of 10, her family moved to Germany. In fact, she had gone underground. Bjorn received 7.69 million euros which were transferred from Hong Kong. Unlike Ignatova, however, he didnt stay free for very long. [12] She reportedly has also worked for McKinsey & Company. Finding people is his speciality, and there is one thing above all he says we should focus on. Where's the help? BBC News Ruja Ignatova, also known as the "missing Cryptoqueen", has been placed on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list. But they used some of this cash to buy more OneCoin. He claimed to be a good Samaritan, someone who had studied OneCoin carefully and wanted to speak to people who had invested. The now 42-year-old is thought to hold both Russian and Ukrainian passports and use a fake ID. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Its working title is Fake! But when it comes to someone trying to find them - whether that's a journalist or a police officer - they are invisible.". Now a hit podcast is stepping up the search for the international scam artist, writes Tanya Sweeney Dr Ruja Ignatova called her creation the 'Bitcoin killer' - and her hype duped a million investors. But earlier this month, Ignatova reportedly came out of the woodwork to claim one of her properties. It depends upon a special type of database called a blockchain, which is like a huge book - one that Bitcoin owners have independent but identical copies of. It was a Ponzi scheme. The US Department of Justice, New York County District Attorney's Office, and Dubai Police did not comment. Before too long they had passed 100,000 - a 10-fold return. "You've been planning, planning for something. [20], Afterward, the North Rhine-Westphalia Police and German Federal Criminal Police Office announced that Ignatova is sought for fraud charges. Then, two years ago, she disappeared. Far from putting an end to their financial worries, she and her friends and family had thrown a quarter of a million euros away. Details first surfaced in 2021 in leaked documents from Dubai's courts, posted online by Dr. Jonathan Levy, a UK-based lawyer, who described her as "the most successful criminal in history.". One day soon, she was told, she would be able to turn these coins back into euros or pounds. If it's true she was in these countries earlier this year, she probably has a fake identity. she replied, sharply. Jamie Bartlett spent months investigating how she did it for the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, and trying to figure out where she's hiding. (Her) lies were designed with one goal, to get everyday people all over the world to part with their hard-earned money.. Technically it was owned by a company called One Property. McAdam started a Facebook support group for other defrauded victims of OneCoin. In October 2017, Ruja was scheduled to appear in a OneCoin promotional event in Lisbon, Portugal. There's a famous saying in journalism, "Follow the money." "In two years, nobody will speak about Bitcoin any more!" A senior promoter gave her a nice car to impress customers, and instructed her to visit farmers when their crops were being harvested and they had money in their pocket. In 2012, she was convicted of fraud in Germany in connection with the acquisition of a steel company obtained by Ruja and her father. She is big on the fairytale and cinderella stuff so castles. For several months, a French journalist called Maxime Grimbert tried to unpick OneCoin's corporate workings, collecting as many company names and bank account details as he could. The BBC asked the ministry whether its staff could be responsible for the leak, but it did not comment. OneCoin was not a cryptocurrency and it did not have blockchain technology. She started planning holidays and shopping trips. In May 2015, already a very successful MLM seller, Igor Alberts was invited to a OneCoin event in Dubai, where he met lots of people, all apparently making fortunes with this new currency. On 5 November 2019, the day after the final episode of The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast was released, Dr Ruja's brother, Konstantin Ignatov, appeared in court in New York, testifying for the government in a case against a lawyer accused of laundering $400m of the money OneCoin made in the US. VideoRecord numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. The self-styled crypto queen, however, is now wanted by law enforcement for her involvement in the OneCoin scheme. asked Bjercke. Prudence is a nurse in a Kampala slum, who thought she could make more money selling OneCoin and set about recruiting new investors. They can easily kill me. [27][28], Ignatova was married to the German lawyer Bjorn Strehl, with whom she had a daughter in 2016.[2][29]. Following the success of Bitcoin and the subsequent explosion of its price, investors who bought early at a low price made huge returns. Investigative reporter Jamie Bartlett, host ofThe Missing Cryptoqueenpodcast, in conjunction with the BBC, initially flagged a tenuous link between the fraudster and the penthouse. Now comes the story of Ruja Ignatova, the Bulgarian-born 'Cryptoqueen': an Oxford graduate who made billions by extorting normal people seduced by her cryptocurrency OneCoin. Now this link has been confirmed Bartlett said it could be a breakthrough. The stranger was Timothy Curry, a Bitcoin enthusiast and cryptocurrency advocate. "One Life!" In general, people are tempted by the idea of making huge profits fast. Police have warned that she has likely had plastic surgery to change her appearance, with hopes low that she would ever be caught. "They still exist", he says, in his garden near the village of Hay-on-Wye. pic.twitter.com/Qv2nNE8Mwf. I didn't even know what is a blockchain What doubt can I have?". 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 show his results to Bullough, who immediately notices how many British companies there are. 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]. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. The only way to exchange these OneCoins for any other currency was through an internal marketplaceOneCoin Exchange, known as xcoinx. Documents leaked to the BBC say 4bn between August 2014 and March 2017. She exploited the Cryptocurrency boom for a fortune and then disappeared without a trace . Video, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Covid origin likely China lab incident - FBI chief, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US. It meant Ignatova was kept out of public records and land registry deeds until now. However, in October 2017, the scammer completely vanished as authorities circled and she hasnt been seen since. But it seems it's not just the promise of riches that keeps people believing. She told the cheering crowd that OneCoin was on course to become the world's biggest cryptocurrency "for everyone to make payments everywhere". Any criticism or awkward questions were actively discouraged. ", The webinar hosts talked about Dr Ruja's glittering background: Oxford University, a PhD from Konstanz, a stint with the respected management consultancy, McKinsey and Company A speech Dr Ruja had given at a conference hosted by The Economist magazine was shown - and that's what clinched it for McAdam. They would always need someone in charge who could manipulate the supply, and forgery was too easy. She can't bring herself to tell them the truth. Europol said it was looking into the issue. "OneCoins principals continue to operate from Bulgaria," according to Dr Levy. The agent replied that this was correct. "You are so lucky that you're seeing this webinar right now," she was told. To explain this, I need first to explain briefly how a cryptocurrency actually works. In 2016, Ms. McAdam had been in bed due to a chronic illness and she was unable to work. Twitter Ruja Ignatova was added to the FBI's Ten Most. This scam is estimated to be well over four billion dollars. It represents the dark side of rapid technological change - the way that every new technology creates amazing new opportunities and possibilities for people who understand it, but also the chance to exploit the people who don't. "When prophecy fails they believe more strongly," she says. According to Bjercke, Dr Ruja never expected OneCoin to grow so big. July 1, 2022 By Jamie Barlett. She was entered into a Whatsapp group, with its own "leader" who disseminated information from the headquarters in Sofia. FBI records presented in court documents earlier this year indicate that on 25 October 2017, just two weeks after her Lisbon no-show, she boarded a Ryanair flight from Sofia to Athens. We explore the path she followed in her business life, making her extremely rich, extremely quicklybut it was all done at the expense of others. "What was her lifestyle? Her biggest aspiration was just to be rich. In her downtime she would throw parties on her luxurious yacht The Davina. Barely a year later, she bamboozled billions and left it behind (not the money) - family included. The alleged murderer, Hristo Hristov, who is also Bulgarian, is currently serving time in a Dutch prison for drug trafficking. It's also been suggested that there are powerful people who might protect her in her native Bulgaria - and that she could hide in plain sight because of plastic surgery that makes her unrecognisable. 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We also learned that Dr Ruja had a daughter in late 2016, and that she remained very close to her. [18] In 2019, her brother Konstantin Ignatov pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering in connection with the scheme. When there is nothing of value to sell, though, and all the money is made by recruiting other people, it is illegal and goes by another name: a pyramid scheme. "We believe consumers should be wary of dealing with OneCoin," it said. But towards the end of the year Jen McAdam was contacted by a stranger on the internet. Jennifer McAdam, a 52-year-old Scottish single parent and businesswoman who fell victim to OneCoin fraud commented that she was pleased the FBI had added Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. I've also been told by more than one person that it could be as much as 15bn. Together with Daniel, Georgia and I travel south to meet his mother. The 16th century English buccaneer Sir Francis Drake died without heirs and this has inspired many to search for his supposed fortune, and others to swindle fortune hunters. 16 months' suspended imprisonment for a previous case. Do you know how they do so? All of them were "very up-tempo, full of beans, full of passion", she remembers. Maybe it's just a delay. Looking to get ideas for places to take our 3 year old while in Frankfurt. And literally my legs just went, and I fell on the floor,'" she says. (I tested this explanation on my mother, the family technophobe, and she told me I'd failed to make it clear enough and should start again. [19], In 2022, prosecutors in Darmstadt, Germany confirmed an investigation of "a lawyer from Neu-Isenburg" for possible money laundering: the transfer of 7.69 million euros by Ignatova into one of her private accounts in 2016. Mr Schneider denies obtaining the documents, which he says were passed to him on a USB memory stick by Ms Ignatova. 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