The founder of “OneCoin” has never been caught, and the United States has launched a campaign to offer a huge reward
From 2014 to 2017, Dr. Ru Ya, who calls herself the "Queen of Cryptocurrency," used OneCoin to defraud more than $4 billion around the world, with victims even in Taiwan. However, just when the police were focusing on Ruja Ignatova, she suddenly disappeared in 2017, and her life and death were uncertain.
Now, the U.S. State Department has announced a $5 million reward, demonstrating its determination to capture Ruya.
According to a report by currency circle foreign media "CoinDesk", the U.S. State Department decided to increase Ruya's reward to $5 million, hoping that informants would be willing to provide important information about her to help the police arrest her.
Source: The Times
Ruja Ignatova, founder of OneCoin
OneCoin fraud incident
According to the "BBC" report, Ruya is suspected of launching OneCoin between 2014 and 2017, claiming to be the "Bitcoin killer" and capable of becoming the world's number one cryptocurrency. However, in fact, OneCoin is just a Ponzi scheme. There is no blockchain technology used behind it at all. With her sharp tongue, Ruya held many online speeches, and there was also a video in which she appeared on a forum in The Economist magazine to win the trust of victims.
In 2016, the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service launched a criminal investigation and found that hundreds of millions of dollars had flowed into shell companies, and most of them ended up in Ruya's pocket. Not only does she own a private jet and a multi-million dollar mansion, it is said that she also has apartments in Hong Kong and Thailand filled with cash.
By 2017, law enforcement agencies in 10 different countries were investigating OneCoin. Ruja fled Bulgaria in October of that year after learning that the police were tracking her, and has not been heard from since. At this point, many victims realized that they had been deceived by the "Queen of Cryptocurrency".
In 2018, Onecoin co-founder Karl Sebastian Greenwood was arrested in Thailand and extradited to the United States. Prosecutors charged him with a 20-year prison sentence and ordered the forfeiture of a $300 million fine.
OneCoin founder might have been killed?
What is the truth behind the disappearance of the founder of OneCoin? After a five-year investigation, the "BBC" discovered that Ruja had a close relationship with "Taki", a suspected leader of Bulgaria's organized crime. Sources close to Ruya revealed that Taki had provided her with protection.
Her former adviser said this was a typical practice in Bulgaria, as most people in the mafia would "buy" an umbrella.
However, a secret police report seen by the BBC suggests that Taki may have killed Ruja on the yacht near Greece and dumped her body into the sea. While the leaked report does not prove that Taki murdered her, some Bulgarian insiders believe it is a credible theory.
Property records and eyewitnesses indicate that Taki's associates currently live in Ruja's Bulgarian mansion, but in five years, Taki has never been arrested on suspicion of her murder. The reason given by Bulgarian police is: "Evidence of a crime." insufficient".
Source: Bulgarian media Bird
OneCoin founder may have been killed by Bulgarian "Taki"
Until now, Ruya is still one of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives. After the news of her murder came out, some witnesses claimed to have seen her, but in the end nothing was found. Was the crypto queen hiding everything, or was she really killed by the people who were supposed to protect her?
Taiwanese fraud group once committed fraud twice in the name of OneCoin
When Ruya's whereabouts were unknown, a fraud group in Taiwan used the name of OneCoin to commit a second fraud. According to a previous report by Public Television News Network, last year, a self-proclaimed cross-border e-commerce group attracted investors by promising to exchange high benefits such as gold, luxury cars, and land, and required each participant to pay high fees. fee. Most of these investors are innocent people who were affected by the OneCoin case in the past, but are now trapped in similar fraud again.
Although they deliberately avoided mentioning sensitive words such as "OneCoin" in their promotion activities, their business practices still exposed the nature of fraud.
The Taichung City Police have set up a task force to investigate the matter and call on all victims to actively report the crime. The police pointed out that these fraud groups usually take advantage of the victims' unwillingness to lose money and carry out illegal money-making activities through financial transactions or high-interest promises.
"Crypto City" also called out that the founder of OneCoin is still at large and all promotions in the name of OneCoin may be secondary fraud. If you encounter an enthusiastic stranger recommending a cryptocurrency project that claims to be high-paying and easy to make money, you should be alert.
