"When prophecy fails they believe more strongly," she says. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which is responsible for regulating financial markets in the UK, issued a warning on its website only in September 2016. She told the cheering crowd that OneCoin was on course to become the world's biggest cryptocurrency "for everyone to make payments everywhere". A towel covers the front door, and a few metres away is her land, where she grows her own food and sells anything left over at the local market. I don't want to be the person that breaks the news to Daniel's mother. He introduced her to Bjorn Bjercke, the blockchain developer who said there was no blockchain. Daniel is one of thousands of Ugandans who've bought into Dr Ruja's fake cryptocurrency - and the OneCoin financial documents leaked to the BBC reveal that as time went on, investors like him became increasingly important to OneCoin. Thousands of people were gathering in venues, all over the world, to see and hear her presentations. The company went bankrupt shortly after acquisition under dubious circumstances. Reluctantly, she agreed to a conversation on Skype. But then I recruit Georgia and Phil to start selling too, and I make a cut on their sales as well. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Mr Schneider denies obtaining the documents, which he says were passed to him on a USB memory stick by Ms Ignatova. They would always need someone in charge who could manipulate the supply, and forgery was too easy. The promoters said it was the larger packages that were really life-changing. That was the last time anyone saw or heard from Dr Ruja. Levy launched a legal case for compensation for OneCoin victims with British Indian Ocean Territory because it hosted a web domain, allegedly used by OneCoin. People in villages trust people from the city, Prudence tells us. The crypto queen possibly traveled on a German passport from Athens, possibly to the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Russia, Eastern Europe or even back to Bulgaria, the FBI has said. Whether it's Bank of England notes and coins, shells, precious stones or matchsticks - all of which have historically been used as money - it only works when everyone trusts it. BBC News Ruja Ignatova, also known as the "missing Cryptoqueen", has been placed on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list. [25] The FBI followed up with an episode of its podcast and YouTube series Inside the FBI devoted to Ignatova and the OneCoin case. In January 2022, police searched apartments and offices in Weilburg, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt am Main, Bad Homburg, Neu-Isenburg and Vaihingen. Around the same time, the US authorities charged Dr Ruja in absentia for wire fraud, security fraud and money laundering. "We are concerned about the potential risk this poses to UK consumers.". Following her studies, she became a . A court reporter was there to hear his testimony, and according to his account of the proceedings Ignatov appears to have implied that his sister had duped him with the same line the organisation put out to its investors - that OneCoin critics were "haters" who could not be believed. But there was something wrong. She was dressed, as usual, in an expensive ballgown, wearing long diamond earrings and bright red lipstick. "I said to Andreea, 'We need to build it up to 100 million coins, because when this coin goes to 100 and we have 100 million, we are richer than Bill Gates.' The opening of a long-promised exchange that would allow OneCoin to be turned into cash kept being delayed - and investors were growing more and more concerned. In June 2022, the FBI added Ruja Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Daniel translates, and his mother's reply comes back. [14][15], In 2013, she was involved with a multi-level marketing scam called BigCoin. It emerged during a money-laundering trial in. "This is supposed to mean that you can no longer use a British company to hide behind," he says, as he scrolls down the page. "Look, nothing has happened. It's no surprise, then, that OneCoin's corporate structure is incredibly complicated. When I ask for more details, he replies: "No, I cannot tell that because I don't want to take that risk with our lives.". Dr Ruja identified several of society's weak spots and exploited them. She vanished, he said, because she was afraid that somebody close to her was going to give her up to the FBI. Dr. Ruja Ignatova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 30, 1980. Then he says I should check what yachts were bought in Athens around the time she arrived there from Sofia. Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency and is still the biggest and best-known - its rise in value from a few cents to hundreds of dollars per coin by mid-2016 had given rise to a frenzy of excitement among investors. Dr Ruja's genius was to recognise that established MLM sellers with huge downlines were the perfect vehicle to market her fake coin - a plan the FBI says she privately referred to as "the bitch of Wall Street, meets MLM". So don't worry too much if you don't follow it either.) Sitting at her computer, the Glaswegian clicked on a link and joined a OneCoin webinar. OneCoin was still growing fast, and Dr Ruja was starting to spend her new fortune: buying multi-million-dollar properties in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, and the Black Sea resort of Sozopol. The now 42-year-old is thought to hold both Russian and Ukrainian passports and use a fake ID. Far from putting an end to their financial worries, she and her friends and family had thrown a quarter of a million euros away. A small beaten down van parked in front and was filled with various office equipment and supplies. Technically it was owned by a company called One Property. He told us we were right - Frankfurt is indeed where she spends much of her time. Realizing that an arrest warrant was imminent and fearing that she could spend the rest of her life behind bars, Ruja decided to flee. No lights visible through the windows. Strehl, husband of one the biggest scammers Ruja, was invisible during the whole OneCoin saga. They, like almost everyone else involved, were convinced they were earning a fortune. [19], In 2022, prosecutors in Darmstadt, Germany confirmed an investigation of "a lawyer from Neu-Isenburg" for possible money laundering: the transfer of 7.69 million euros by Ignatova into one of her private accounts in 2016. If you believe you have been a victim of fraud in relation to OneCoin or you suspect someone of actively marketing OneCoin, please come forward and report it to Action Fraud online.". It's also notorious for exaggerated promises of high earnings and tough sales targets. She understood that truth and lies are getting harder to tell apart when there is so much contradictory information online. There were limitations as to how many OneCoins could be exchanged for any other currency per day. 66K views, 1.6K likes, 214 loves, 348 comments, 854 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Cryptoqueen: I would like to share some very personal and exciting news with you. She is thought to have undergone several plastic surgeries in order to alter her appearance. Then a few days later we received a call from a trusted source we cannot identify. We also learned that Dr Ruja had a daughter in late 2016, and that she remained very close to her. From that amount, he had collected $50 million in fees. She is now on the FBIs list of the 10 most-wanted fugitives and is the only woman currently on the hit list. Dr. Ruja Ignatova was born in Bulgaria on May 30, 1980. And his targets were public libraries in America where he would masquerade as a "jolly," well-educated professor and ultimately pillage rare books to the tune of more than half a million dollars. Bang!". She asks what news we have about OneCoin. "Go back to her life before OneCoin. Find out here. There are also investors who feel guilty. The nature of MLM networks - where people often recruit others who are close to them - creates a blurred sense of responsibility. As in other countries, OneCoin has spread here through networks of friends and families. In the FBI's' 72-year history, Ruja is only the 11th woman to appear on this list. She studied at Oxford University and received a PhD in International Law from the University of Constance. He has denied obtaining the documents and said: "When the Bulgarians participated at certain Europol meetings, it only took hours for her to get a complete rundown and get the minutes of what was said in those meetings. We will be there for a week and wanted to take various day trips as well as tour the actual city. In an interconnected global economy, assets can simply vanish, and you end up chasing shadows. Ignatova started to refer to herself as the Cryptoqueen. Igor returned with a new mission - and gave new instructions to all the salespeople in his downline: stop whatever you're doing, and start selling OneCoin. It's easy as that.". When Georgia and I called them ourselves to check, they confirmed it. "Maybe you can tell her Maybe" he says. US authorities have warned that Ruja Ignatova may have changed her appearance since going missing in 2017, FBI agents believe Ms Ignatova travels with armed guards or associates, Mr Schneider was interviewed by the BBC's Jamie Bartlett, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. She reportedly earned a PhD in private international law from the University of Constance and has a daughter who. I explain that this is probably beyond my abilities (apart from being illegal). If it's true she was in these countries earlier this year, she probably has a fake identity. They keep postponing this. She is best known as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as OneCoin, which The Times has described as "one of the biggest scams in history". The 16th century English buccaneer Sir Francis Drake died without heirs and this has inspired many to search for his supposed fortune, and others to swindle fortune hunters. Bishop Fred, we learned, is now one of the country's top promoters of OneCoin, though he says it's no longer promoted during church services. Over the next hour or so she listened carefully to people talking enthusiastically about this exciting new cryptocurrency - how it could transform her fortunes. (She received a fine and a suspended sentence in October 2016.) Ruja Plamenova Ignatova ( Bulgarian: , romanized : Rua Plamenova Ignatova; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian -born German citizen and convicted fraudster. In an ideal world, regulators would take action to protect consumers from scams like OneCoin. 2023 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. Sixty per cent of the income Igor Alberts and Andreea Cimbala made from OneCoin (in the end, more than 2m per month) was paid in cash, the rest in OneCoin. Several of the people Georgia and I interviewed spoke darkly about mysterious people and connections they didn't want to name. He doesn't seem certain it's a good idea. On 6 March 2019 Konstantin Ignatov was at Los Angeles International airport, waiting to fly back to Bulgaria after some OneCoin meetings in the US. Answer 1 of 6: Hello out there. The stranger was Timothy Curry, a Bitcoin enthusiast and cryptocurrency advocate. This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 21:13. And McAdam's leader prepared her carefully for conversations with OneCoin sceptics. Barely a year later, she bamboozled billions and left it behind (not the money) - family included. But towards the end of the year Jen McAdam was contacted by a stranger on the internet. The US lawyer prosecuting Ignatova, Damian Williams, released a damning statement last month where he said her crypto tokens were useless. Her biggest aspiration was just to be rich. List of fugitives from justice who disappeared, " 41- , ", "Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then ran", "The mystery of the disappearing 'Cryptoqueen', "The 4bn OneCoin scam: how crypto-queen Dr Ruja Ignatova duped ordinary people out of billions then went missing", "Is OneCoin The Biggest Financial Fraud in History? Bjorn received 7.69 million euros which were transferred from Hong Kong. But the motive of other people was simply being able to acquire a better life; people who worked long hours, people who did difficult physical labor, old people. It's hard to know how much money has been put into OneCoin. Dr Ruja had vanished. 1 EuGVO Chancen und Perspektiven der Reform des Gerichtsstands am Erfllungsort, which discusses lex causae in conflict of laws. But in January 2017 it was shut down permanently. "So we need you to build a blockchain," he went on. She had no computer or smartphone, to do her own research. Lots of people were looking to get involved in this strange new opportunity. It's mathematic. Before too long they had passed 100,000 - a 10-fold return. We already knew that Dr Ruja spent some of her childhood in Schramberg, southern Germany. Both companies were founded by Ignatova and Greenwood. I am simply a concerned person who cannot tolerate injustice in any form. When Georgia and I visited Sofia a month later, Dr Ruja's personal mansion appeared to be locked up and empty, but the OneCoin office gave every appearance of being a busy workplace. The family had saved about 3,000 to buy a maize store so that Daniel's mother could stop spending every day in the fields. "You will find her," he said. [11][failed verification] In 2005, she earned a PhD in private international law from the University of Constance in Germany with the dissertation Art. She started her own company, OneCoin, in 2014 with her brother Konstantin Ignatov, which was touted as a lucrative rival to the leading . But it seems it's not just the promise of riches that keeps people believing. So with Georgia Catt, producer of The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, I went to see Oliver Bullough, an expert on what he calls Moneyland - the shadowy parallel world where criminals and the super-rich hide their wealth. Even Google - 'Don't listen to Google!'" Members could later exchange these educational packages, ranging from 100 euros to 118,000 euros, for OneCoins. "Particularly if you have invested something, not only money, but belief, reputation, intelligence. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Didn't seem to be the contents of the famous 3rd floor cash room :) Looked as if the company is moving out, but who knows pic.twitter.com/vH0XzMFef0. In early 2019, she was charged in absentia by U.S. authorities for wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering. In the Ntangamo region of Uganda, not far from Rwandan border, most people make their living growing bananas, or sometimes cassava, sweet potato, beans or groundnut. [9] Ignatova emigrated to Germany with her family when she was ten years old, and spent part of her childhood in Schramberg in the state of Baden-Wrttemberg. ", "Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Leaders Of "OneCoin," A Multibillion-Dollar Pyramid Scheme Involving The Sale Of A Fraudulent Cryptocurrency", "BKA - Fahndung nach Personen - Ruja IGNATOVA", https://moneyweek.com/economy/people/605142/ruja-ignatova-profile-crooked-cryptoqueen, "The Outrageous Case of OneCoin, the Billion Dollar Scam Sold as a "Bitcoin Killer", "Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished", "OneCoin Took In Billions. Ms Ignatova, a 42-year-old Bulgaria-born German national, disappeared on 25 October 2017 after being tipped-off about intensifying police investigations into her Sofia-based scam. It said the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast "will not present any truthful information and cannot be considered objective, nor unbiased". The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. In November 2019, a jury in Manhattan found Mark Scott, a lawyer for OneCoin, guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering and fraud of $400 million by concealing the ownership and source of the funds. A couple of people looked at the photographs and paused for a long time, raising our hopes - but then said they didn't recognise her. She had been impressed by Ruja and the upward trend in the price of OneCoin without the fluctuations other cryptocurrencies usually have. We should try to get the tracker off it, he says, and he doesn't appear to be joking. (Her) lies were designed with one goal, to get everyday people all over the world to part with their hard-earned money.. I show his results to Bullough, who immediately notices how many British companies there are. It's hard to say.". Dr Ruja was still travelling the world to sell her vision - hopping from Macau to Dubai to Singapore, filling out arenas, pulling in new investors. Ruja's brother Constantin Ignatov, whom she placed in charge of the company after leaving in 2017, was arrested in March 2019. Then, two years ago, she disappeared. [21][22] An Interpol Red Notice followed. OneCoin was a familiar scam with a digital twist - a new and hugely successful take on the old pyramid scheme. Bjorn Bjercke is a blockchain expert and he was the first person who started speaking publicly against OneCoin. I sell a box to my friends, Georgia and Phil, and make a small cut. Previously, the property belonged to a company called Abbots House Penthouse Limited, based in Guernsey, a well-known tax haven with very little government oversight. Here's an example: Ruja bought a very large property in central Sofia. One of the main OneCoin offices in Kampala is attached to a church. But we were still surprised when, during our internet searches, Frankfurt started appearing over and over again. Aliases: Dr. Ruja Ignatova, Ruja Plamenova Ignatova, Ruja P. Ignatova, "CryptoQueen" Date(s) . "I felt responsibility. Any criticism or awkward questions were actively discouraged. "I'm devastated for all the UK victims," Jen McAdam told me, when she heard the news. She was condemned to 14 months suspended jail sentence. Maybe it's just a delay. But when it comes to someone trying to find them - whether that's a journalist or a police officer - they are invisible.". Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished, BBC News, November 24, 2019, https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61966824, https://www.banklesstimes.com/news/2021/11/17/onecoin-alive-and-kicking-in-bulgaria-govt-assisted-crypto-pyramid-scheme/. The degrees are genuine. In March 2016 it was announced that the exchange would be closing down for two weeks for maintenance. Read about our approach to external linking. However, in October 2017, the scammer completely vanished as authorities circled and she hasnt been seen since. [13], In 2012, she was convicted of fraud in Germany in connection with her and her father Plamen Ignatov's acquisition of a company that shortly afterwards was declared bankrupt in dubious circumstances; she was given a suspended sentence of 14 months' imprisonment. "You can still use them to buy things, you can still use them to buy political influence and nice houses and yachts. I would have just turned my back and walked away," he says. July 1, 2022 By Jamie Barlett. It represents the dark side of rapid technological change - the way that every new technology creates amazing new opportunities and possibilities for people who understand it, but also the chance to exploit the people who don't. In 2020, it was announced that Jennifer McAdam will be portrayed by Kate Winslet in an upcoming Hollywood film about the OneCoin fraud. She lives in a concrete house with a tin roof - five small rooms, a small television and a cooking area. The listing of a property in the heart of London has brought a notorious cryptocurrency fugitive who ran a $4 billion Ponzi scheme out of the woodwork. Ruja Ignatova celebrating her birthday with her husband and OneCoin members. He was an Italian immigrant whose investment scam resulted in people losing tens of millions of dollars. Investors often told us that what drew them in initially was the fear that they would miss out on the next big thing. "When you look at my clothes, they are disciplined," he says. He claimed to be a good Samaritan, someone who had studied OneCoin carefully and wanted to speak to people who had invested. Prestige property seller Knight Frank advertised the property but swiftly took the listing down after it emerged that Ignatova had links to it. But there was something very important these investors didn't know. They live in an enormous house in an affluent neighbourhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. He claims he has made 100m over the last 30 years. You think, 'Wait a bit longer. There is a BBC Sounds podcast called "The Missing Cryptoqueen." "There was no other way," he says ruefully. But the authorities all over the world have been slow to react, partly because the whole area of cryptocurrencies is relatively new. Ruja Plamenova Ignatova (Bulgarian: , romanized:Rua Plamenova Ignatova; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian-born German citizen and convicted fraudster. "We made in our first month almost 90,000 out of nothing. "One Coin!" [12] She reportedly has also worked for McKinsey & Company. But later we hear that we might have been in the presence of Dr Ruja - that she was there, in the same room, right in front of our noses. [5][6], Since 2017, Ignatova has been on the run from various international law enforcement agencies. But though she has stopped recruiting, many others haven't, and there are still plenty of interested buyers, she says. This was to be resolved at a large gathering of European OneCoin promoters in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2017. They were shown photographs of her numerous degrees, and copies of Forbes magazine with her portrait on the front cover. In 2016 it was here that 22-year-old Daniel Lienhardt came as he was scraping together the 700,000 Ugandan shillings ($250) he needed to buy a OneCoin starter package. VideoRecord numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Read about our approach to external linking. Following her studies, she became a consultant for McKinsey and Co. In fact, she had gone underground. In fact, OneCoins were entirely worthless, he said, per CNN. And literally my legs just went, and I fell on the floor,'" she says. "I did the calculation how many coins we needed to become the richest person on the planet," Igor says. 'Haters' - Bitcoiners are 'haters'. And that friend was visiting the richest neighbourhood in Frankfurt in summer this year. He said he could prove it, too. At the age of 10, her family moved to Germany. Author's note: I am not an expert in cryptocurrencies. OneCoin was not a cryptocurrency and it did not have blockchain technology. (Source: Indias Magazine) The pair are blessed with one daughter. "OK Jen they don't want to disclose that kind of information, just in case something goes wrong where the blockchain is being held. Video, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Covid origin likely China lab incident - FBI chief, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US. We don't know. Ignatovas brother, Konstantin Ignatova, took over the operation after she fled. It added that the allegations made about it around the world were being challenged, stating: "Our partners, our customers and our lawyers are fighting successfully against this action around the globe and we are sure that the vision of a new system on the basis of a 'financial revolution' will be established. In June 2022, she was added to the FBI's 10 most wanted list. MLM is not illegal. James Richard Shinn was a book lover. The fact that OneCoin was operating internationally also created difficulties for the authorities. But they have always failed because no-one could trust them. In 2014, 34-year-old Ignatova and Sebastian Greenwood, an expert in multi-level marketing, launched a cryptocurrency called OneCoin. She would have known that we were looking for her, he added, and she would have laughed at us. If nothing else it should make it easier for the authorities to freeze that asset and maybe even start getting money back to victims.. Beginning in . The Bulgarian woman, believed to be in her 40s, is wanted for her alleged. "We believe consumers should be wary of dealing with OneCoin," it said. When we started planning the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast in late 2018, no-one really had a clue what happened to Dr Ruja after her disappearance. She could hear the whoops and cheers of thousands of adoring fans in the background. Daniel took me and Georgia to meet Prudence, who first introduced him to OneCoin. After Jennifer lost her money, she pursued Ignatova for six years and she was disappointed when the City of London police closed their investigation in 2019, saying they could not locate any assets of OneCoin or its founders in the UK. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. I had no clue that it could be false. "You're in at such an early stage and it's just going to go like Bitcoin. Bulgarian-born German citizen Ruja Ignatova, FBIs list of the 10 most-wanted fugitives. From a tiny fragment of a poster advertising a tennis tournament, an expert identified the park in which one photograph was taken. The Onecoin Ponzi was a multi-level-marketing (MLM) venture that featured packages that were ostensibly tethered to a blockchain network. I felt proud of her.". It depends upon a special type of database called a blockchain, which is like a huge book - one that Bitcoin owners have independent but identical copies of. The BBC asked the ministry whether its staff could be responsible for the leak, but it did not comment. In 2012, she was convicted of fraud in Germany in connection with the acquisition of a steel company obtained by Ruja and her father. She feels guilty towards those who she introduced to OneCoin, she says, but also towards her late father, a miner, who worked hard all his life in horrible conditions, and left her the money that she then gave away. Despite the successful facade, trouble was brewing. "You've been planning, planning for something. [16] In 2014, she founded a pyramid scheme called OneCoin. Jennifer McAdam, a 52-year-old Scottish single parent and businesswoman who fell victim to OneCoin fraud commented that she was pleased the FBI had added Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. This is also where Dr Ruja's husband - or perhaps ex-husband - lives and works. Find out who her friends were, what her lifestyle was like, her family.". Onecoin's Ruja Ignatova is a mysterious woman who has been on the run for over three years now. [23] This listing was reciprocated by Europol adding Ignatova to its 'most wanted' list; however, Deutsche Welle notes that the Europol listing was removed under unknown circumstances. But earlier this month, Ignatova reportedly came out of the woodwork to claim one of her properties. By March 2017, more than 3.5 billion had been invested in the OneCoin system. So it's our blockchain technology, a SQL server with a database.". This scam is estimated to be well over four billion dollars. OneCoin has always denied wrongdoing. They can easily kill me. "Once OneCoin was running above 10 million, 20 million, 30 million, something happened where she was unable to stop it," Bjercke says. [10][2] Claims that she may have studied at University of Oxford in England give no details of college, course, or date of matriculation. At first she was told it was something she didn't need to know, but when she persisted she finally got the truth in a voicemail in April 2017. According to the BBC in an article dated July 2, 2022, Ignatova stashed millions of dollars in the rival Bitcoin before disappearing in 2017. Ruja Ignatova profile summary Full name: Ruja Ignatova Date of birth: 30th May 1980 Place of birth: Sofia, Bulgaria Hometown: Schramberg, Baden-Wrttemberg state, Germany Zodiac Sign: Taurus Age: 41 years Company: OneCoin Nationality: Bulgarian Ethnicity: Caucasian Parents: Veska and Plamen Ignatov Sibling: Konstantin Ignatov She watched excitedly on the OneCoin website as the value of her coins steadily rose. The documents show attendees from Bulgaria's Interior Ministry at the March 2017 Europol meeting. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. Now a hit podcast is stepping up the search for the international scam artist, writes Tanya Sweeney From Pakistan to Brazil, from Hong Kong to Norway, from Canada to Yemen even Palestine. How a con man duped struggling farmers into a pigeon breeding scheme that had fraud written all over it. And even then, the question remained, where had she gone next? Unlike Ignatova, however, he didnt stay free for very long. On the run since 2017, Dr Ruja Ignat Taking seriously Alan McLean's advice about studying Dr Ruja's life before OneCoin, Georgia and I turn to the internet, which fortunately never forgets anything. It's also been suggested that there are powerful people who might protect her in her native Bulgaria - and that she could hide in plain sight because of plastic surgery that makes her unrecognisable. the FBI added Ruja Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away With It, Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished, The life and crimes of Ruja Ignatova, new to FBI's 10 Most Wanted Ruja Ignatova, https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/fbi-adds-cryptoqueen-to-ten-most-wanted-fugitives-list-for-fraud.htm, 'Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova added to FBI's top ten most wanted list. 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