Accused of setting up a “pyramid scheme” with crypto asset Onecoin Ruja Ignatova sought for a long time. According to reports, Ignatova may have been killed in Greece a year after her disappearance. According to an article citing the leaked report from a police informant, the “missing Cryptoqueen” was killed more than four years ago on a yacht in the Ionian Sea.
Is Onecoin Founder Ruja Ignatova Murdered?
According to a Bulgarian website called Bureau for Investigative Reporting and Data (Bird.bg), the pyramid scheme onecoinIgnatova, who founded , may have been dead since November 2018. The conclusion is based on evidence obtained during the investigation into the murder of a former senior police officer in Sofia last year.
Koinfinans.com As we reported, the former head of a criminal police department in the Bulgarian capital was killed in March 2022. An informant report found in the safe at her home claims that Ruja Ignatova was killed on a yacht in the Ionian Sea, her body mutilated and thrown into the water. The report claims that the execution was carried out on the orders of a drug lord.
However, the City Prosecutor’s Office declared that the report in question did not constitute a document in the context of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as it was not signed by a specific person and there was no information about its author.
In the same correspondence, there is information that the murdered person was seized in his home and it is not possible to confirm this situation.
What Happened?
Launching the fake cryptocurrency called Onesignal in 2014, Ignatova stole over $4 billion from more than 3 million investors. Ignatova, a Bulgarian-born German national, was last seen at the airport in Athens on 25 October 2017, when she arrived on a plane from Sofia.
Dubbed the “missing Cryptoqueen”, Ignatova is wanted by Interpol, Europol and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Earlier media reports suggested that Ignatova may have been killed or that she was still alive and well after plastic surgery had changed her appearance. In July 2022, Greek media revealed that police tried to apprehend Ignatova after receiving information that she was in the country.
His brother and co-founder, Konstantin, were detained in Los Angeles in 2019 and pleaded guilty to Onecoin-related charges while seeking witness protection in the US.
Another co-founder, Karl Sebastian Greenwood, who is a Swedish and British citizen, pleaded guilty in December 2022. Last week, news broke that Ruja’s ex-boyfriend Gilbert Armenta was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in laundering the proceeds of fraud.