Trying something new for the new episode of The Missing Cryptoqueen. For fans of the series who want to know more (or see more) here are a few photos & links about the key characters in episode 9. 1/7
We often excerpt from Ruja’s June 2016 London Arena event. (Including at the start of episode 1). Here she claimed OneCoin was ‘the bitcoin killer’ and announced a ‘new blockchain’.
Her speech in full: 2/7
Her younger brother Konstantin Ignatov - vegan, tee-totaller, MMA expert, tattoo addict - took over OneCoin in mid-2018. This is his last Facebook post before being arrested by the FBI at Los Angeles International Airport in March 2019. Plus mugshot. 3/7
American lawyer Mark Scott at NYSD Court. In November 2019 he was convicted of laundering $400m USD of Ruja’s stolen OneCoin money through something called the Fenero Funds. 4/7 news.bitcoin.com/prosecutors-fi…
There was much more stunning material in the court case. For example Konstantin claims to have been kidnapped at gunpoint & threatened by a branch of the Hell’s Angels. Nice summary from the website BehindMLM:
behindmlm.com/companies/onec… 5/7
Gilbert Armenta, another one of Ruja’s money men, was having an affair with Ruja. But he started working for the FBI to catch her. Here he is with Ruja and OneCoin top boss Sebastian Greenwood in Macau in 2016. 6/7
Frank Schneider. Former top spy from Luxembourg whose private intelligence firm started working for OneCoin in mid 2015. Frank’s firm Sandstone hired the UK PR firm Chelgate to work for OneCoin. 7/7
You can listen to the new episode of #cryptoqueen here:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
And catch eps1 - 8 too. Stay tuned for more. We’ll be back again soon. /end
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