Missing ‘Cryptoqueen’ Ruja Ignatova has assets frozen in UK court.
In a ruling on August 7, the United Kingdom's High Court of Justice granted an international freezing order against Ruja Ignatova, the popular “cryptocoin” and several other alleged co-conspirators in the OneCoin scheme.
More than 400 victims of the OneCoin debacle have banded together and filed a lawsuit against Ignatova, OneCoin co-founder Sebastian Greenwood, Christopher Hamilton and Robert MacDonald for allegedly helping to launder funds in OneCoin's name, and four influencers who promoted OneCoin to the public.
In addition, Ignatova has been slapped with a global asset freeze for businesses that allegedly used OneCoin to launder money and buy assets.
The Saga of the Cryptoqueen
Ruja Ignatova From the time Onecoin was founded in 2014 until the collapse of the fraudulent project in 2017 and the disappearance of Ignatova, he was accused of defrauding investors in a $4 billion Ponzi scheme. The cryptocurrency was last seen in Athens, Greece in 2017 and has not been seen since, leading the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to put it on their top ten most wanted list.
In the year In January 2024, the United States Department of State began offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Ignatova, although Ignatova was allegedly spotted, and the cryptocurrency's whereabouts are unknown.
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Justice awaits OneCoin's accomplices.
Ruja's brother Konstantin Ignatov Investigators and OneCoin lawyer Mark Scott testify in court.
In the year In 2019, Scott was found guilty of charges related to bank fraud and money laundering. A lighter sentence than the 17 years that US prosecutors had argued was appropriate.
OneCoin co-founder Carl Greenwood was found guilty in 2023 and sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the scheme. Greenwood was forced to hand over $300 million in payments he made for facilitating the OneCoin scam.
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