US offers $5 million reward for capturing ‘queen of cryptocurrencies’🎁👈
The United States government is intensifying the search for Ruja Ignatova, the founder of OneCoin, the largest cryptocurrency scheme in history. In an announcement made this Thursday (27), authorities raised the reward to up to US$5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the scammer who became known as the “queen of cryptocurrencies”.
Ignatova is a German citizen of Bulgarian origin and is wanted for creating the scheme that authorities describe as “one of the biggest cryptocurrency scams in history”.
The OneCoin project, co-founded by Ignatova in 2014, scammed investors across the globe and stole more than $4 billion in Bitcoin.
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The scheme began to unravel in 2017, when Ignatova was indicted in New York. She faced charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
