At the top of the FBI's wanted list... Did the mafia kill the Crypto Queen, who has been missing for years?
The allegations against Dr Ruja Ignatova, who has been known as the Crypto Queen and has not been heard from since she disappeared with 3.3 billion pounds in October 2017, attracted attention.
Dr Ruja Ignatova, an Oxford graduate, began to climb the career ladder rapidly in 2014. Millions of people around the world trusted the Bulgarian-born entrepreneur with their life savings and believed in his vision for a new online currency. However, Ignatova, known as the Queen of Crypto, disappeared without any explanation in 2017.
Authorities in the US are accusing him of fraud as they believe he has run away with £3.3bn worth of investments from supporters of the OneCoin cryptocurrency in around 175 countries. And even though years have passed, not much is still known about what happened to Ignatova.
However, according to BBC news; Ignatova may even have been killed. It is stated that the disappearance of the Crypto Queen is extremely mysterious due to suspicious mafia connections.
Ruja Ignatova failed to attend a meeting with promoters in Lisbon in October 2017 and mysteriously disappeared.
Ignatova, who was accused of fraud, actually graduated from
#Oxford and spent six years with McKinsey. She was confident and assured her supporters that her project,
#OneCoin , would take off. Within months, millions of people around the world believed in him and purchased packs online of a new currency they believed would one day change the world.
Recently, local media established tentative links between Ruja and Christoforos Amanatidis, a man in his native Bulgaria who is alleged to be the head of the country's organized crime network.
Documents seized in the house of a former police chief who was assassinated in Sofia in 2022 revealed allegations that Ruja Ignatova was killed on behalf of Amanatidis in November 2018.
Now there is a suspicion that Ignatova may be dead.