Ruja Ignatova, founder of the notorious crypto pyramid Onecoin, was reportedly alerted about police investigations into the scam before she disappeared. The ‘Cryptoqueen’ has been on the run for several years, wanted by law enforcement agencies around the world.
Onecoin Mastermind Learned About Arrest Efforts From Leaked Police Documents, Podcast Reveals
A media report has shed light on how Onecoin’s founder Ruja Ignatova may have been warned about the plans to detain her months before she disappeared almost five years ago. That’s according to files seen by the BBC, which airs a podcast devoted to the story of the infamous fugitive called ‘The Missing Cryptoqueen.’
The documents were shown by Frank Schneider, a former intelligence officer from Luxembourg and once trusted adviser to Ignatova who is facing extradition to the U.S. for his alleged role in the Ponzi scheme. Schneider denies obtaining the files himself and claims he received them on a flash drive from Ruja while the metadata suggests she got them through her own contacts in Bulgaria.
The 42-year-old Bulgarian-born Ignatova, also a German national, is wanted by Interpol, Europol, and the FBI for misappropriating $4 billion from defrauded investors. She was last seen on Oct. 25, 2017, when she boarded a Ryanair flight bound for Athens. Media reports unveiled this summer that the Greek police tried to locate her, acting on information about her recent meetings in the country.
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