Ruja Ignatova
Bulgarian businesswoman, prosecuted for cryptocurrency fraud
Ruja Ignatova (Bulgarian: Ружа Игнатова) (born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian-German convicted fraudster. She is best known as the founder of a Ponzi scheme known as OneCoin.[3][4][5]
Ruja Ignatova | |
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 Ignatova in 2015 | |
| Born | 30 May 1980 Ruse, Bulgaria |
| Disappeared | 25 October 2017 (aged 37) Athens, Greece[1] |
| Status | Missing for 7 years and 24 days |
| Nationality | Bulgarian (formerly),[2] German |
| Known for | OneCoin Ponzi scheme |
| Criminal charge | Fraud |
| Penalty | 16 months' suspended imprisonment for a previous case. Up to 90 years for the Ponzi scheme |
Reward amount | $100,000 |
Since 2017, Ignatova has been on the run from international law enforcement agencies. In early 2019, she was charged in absentia by U.S. authorities for wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering. She was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted in June 2022.
References
change- ↑ Papadopoulos, Yiannis (December 24, 2019). "Cryptoqueen disappears, leaving havoc in her wake". Kathimerini.
- ↑ "Продължава издирването на 41-годишна германска гражданка, родена у нас" [Search continues for 41-year-old German national born in Bulgaria]. MOI Press Office. Archived from the original on 2022-04-19. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
- ↑ "Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then ran". BBC. November 24, 2019.
- ↑ Cellan-Jones, Rory (September 26, 2019). "The mystery of the disappearing 'Cryptoqueen'". BBC.
- ↑ Bartlett, Jamie (December 15, 2019). "The £4bn OneCoin scam: how crypto-queen Dr Ruja Ignatova duped ordinary people out of billions — then went missing". The Times.
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