In October 2017, Ruja Ignatova, known as the "Queen of Cryptocurrency", plundered more than $4 billion through OneCoin and suddenly disappeared, leaving behind countless victims and a huge financial mystery. On June 30, 2022, the FBI listed her as one of the world's top ten most wanted criminals and offered a $100,000 reward for clues. Ruja from Bulgaria once confidently declared that OneCoin would replace Bitcoin within two years, become the dominant cryptocurrency, and enable global payments.

A few days before her disappearance, Ruya's whereabouts became increasingly mysterious. According to evidence submitted to the court by the FBI in 2019, on October 25, 2017, two weeks after the OneCoin Sales Conference in Lisbon, Ignatova mysteriously disappeared after boarding a flight to Athens, Greece in Sofia. She may have made a last-minute decision and instructed her brother to buy two tickets to different places, and then there was no news. $BTC

Even more confusing is that she may have been warned in advance that the US and German authorities were going to arrest her between October 22 and 25. A meeting with a family company agent in London on October 21 was also abruptly cancelled and rerouted to Russia.

Ignatova registered a company in London in May 2016, managed by a British lawyer, and planned to settle in a luxury apartment in Kensington, London. She was pregnant at the time. The child was eventually born in Germany, and Ruya shared photos of the child online. But then, she also faced wire fraud charges in Germany, making her story even more confusing.$ETH

Before she disappeared, Ruja Ignatova traveled the world with her high-profile and dazzling speeches, from Macau and Hong Kong to Dubai and Africa, constantly touring and raising funds.

At the same time, she enjoyed the wealth she easily acquired. She bought luxury homes in the Bulgarian capital and the Black Sea resorts, and in her spare time, she took international celebrities to enjoy herself on luxury yachts at sea. Her life seemed like an endless luxury party.

However, in October 2017, the OneCoin salesmen met in Lisbon, Portugal, and the core topic of the meeting was to deliver on their promises. A representative present at the time recalled that everyone was told that Ignatova was on her way to the venue, but she never showed up.

Meanwhile, the company headquarters had no idea of ​​her whereabouts, as if she had suddenly disappeared without a trace.

After five years of investigation, the FBI found that Ruja had close ties with a suspected Bulgarian mafia boss called "Taki", who was believed to have provided her with protection. There were also reports that she might have been brutally murdered by Taki and dumped in the sea on a yacht near Greece, but these claims have not been confirmed.

Did the missing cryptocurrency queen abscond with the money, or was she brutally murdered by the people she was supposed to protect? This mystery remains unsolved and still puzzles countless people.