A member of one of the ruling families in the United Arab Emirates may have fallen victim to Ruja Ignatova, who disappeared after collecting billions of dollars in bitcoin.
According to the BBC’s special news, one of the biggest scams in the history of crypto money. Founder of OneCoin Ruja Ignatova, Emirate of Sharjah He also defrauded Saoud bin Faisal Al Qassimi from the ruling family.
Al Qassimi with Bulgarian citizen Ignatova in 2015 in exchange for an agreement he made hosting about 230,000 bitcoins and at that time around 50 million euros It gave me four USBs.
In exchange for these bitcoins, Ignatova wrote Al Qassimi three checks for 50 million euros from Mashreq Bank in Dubai. But Ignatova’s accounts were at that time because it’s frozen These checks could not be cashed.
42-year-old Ignatova attracts investors from many different countries in total. by defrauding 4 billion dollars is accused. Ignatova, who went missing in 2017, recently became a member of the FBI. most wanted list entry.
Court documents in Dubai dated April 28, 2022 show Al Qassimi’s money in Ignatova’s account. requested that it be transferred to him. is showing. But as Ignatova is still missing, it is unknown if Al Qassimi will be able to get her money back.
The Al Qassimi family runs Sharjah, one of the founding emirates of the United Arab Emirates, neighboring Dubai.