The FBI has added OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova to its “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list, a list of the 10 most wanted suspects. At a press conference on Thursday
according to the statement of US Attorney in the Southern District of New York Ignatova “allegedly defrauded investors of more than $4 billion through cryptocurrency company OneCoin.”
OneCoin’s business is built by selling educational cryptocurrency trading packages to its members. Incentivized by commissions to sell to more and more new members, the program claims to reach 3 million members at peak. This includes victims around the world.
And now Ignatova is on the list. “Most Wanted” and thanks to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),youis in the top ten list and hasPrize money up to $100,000 for information that led to her arrest. According to the FBI, Ignatova was last seen in Athens, Greece, in 2017.
Other prominent figures of the OneCoin leader were arrested in 2019 and charged with fraud, while Ignatova and others associated with OneCoin among them were her brother Konstantin Ignatov. He has now pleaded guilty and is awaiting prison terms of up to 90 years.
“There are many victims around the world who have been damaged by this. We want to bring her to justice,” Special Agent Ronald Shimko, who is investigating the case from the FBI’s New York field office, said in a statement.declaration
The FBI says Ignatova speaks English, German and Bulgarian. and may travel with fake passports And she has ties with Bulgaria, Germany, Russia, Greece and the United Arab Emirates.
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