OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova was allegedly murdered in November 2018 on a yacht, according to new information. The so-called “Crypto Queen” has been missing since 2017.
Ignatova allegedly murdered
The location of the OneCoin founder has long remained the subject of speculation. Well, until a few days ago.
In an article about other research, the Bureau of Research Information and Data (BIRD) mentioned how a Bulgarian citizen, convicted of money laundering, Georgi Georgiev Vasilev, while intoxicated, mentioned that a well-known Bulgarian drug dealer Hristoforos Amanatidis, nicknamed Taki, ordered the murder of Crypto Queen in 2018 in Greece.
The report further added that his body was dismembered and thrown into the Ionian Sea.
However, Crypto Xpose, a Twitter account dedicated to exposing OneCoin, wrote that this information may not necessarily be true.
They noted that the FBI does not put the deceased on its 10 most wanted list.
The Bulgarian police also do not take the information about his death as fact as there is no real evidence.
“Are you buying a property?”
Ignatove’s name has recently resurfaced. On Jan. 23, the infamous OneCoin founder was also linked to a property in London and was the alleged beneficial owner of Abbots House Penthouse Limited. This company bought a multi-million dollar penthouse in the London suburb of Kensington.
The property was listed for sale for $15.5 million, according to New York Post but it was later reduced to $13.6 million and later delisted.
Since last year, Ignatova reportedly had to step up as an owner due to the rules in place in the UK. However, a separate bbc report says the list goes back to prosecutors in Bielefeld, Germany, rather than UK law enforcement officials or Ignatova.
OneCoin was a popular pyramid scheme from 2014 to 2016, which claimed that the cryptocurrency would become a “Bitcoin killer”. Ignatova and her associates knowingly defrauded clients of millions of dollars, since there was no blockchain technology and the “cryptocurrency” was not mined.
In 2017, Ignatova disappeared with more than $4 billion right after the FBI issued a warrant for her arrest. Prosecutors called the fraud the largest international fraud in history. In June 2022, the ‘Cryptoqueen’ was included in the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list.
