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OK - #OneCoin trial of Mark Scott continues with Konstantin Ignatov on stand at 9:30, before that lawyers' arguments about Scott's state of mind @SDNYLIVE - yesterday's stories innercitypress.com/sdny17onecoini… and patreon.com/posts/31340517, and below, thread

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Before jury comes in at 9:30 am, AUSA Folly tells Judge Ramos that the defense should not be able to mislead the jury about an audit report that Scott never saw.
Judge Ramos: Here we have a piece of evidence that is already before the jury, it was on the website

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Judge Ramos: We've having this trial because Mr. Scott is allowed to argue that he didn't know this was a fraud.
AUSA Folly: We may still have an objection.
Scott's lawyer again mentions Robert Courtneidge of Locke Lord

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Judge Ramos: We're also waiting on the witness [that would be Konstantin Ignatov, in custody, perhaps at GEO private prison in which they house cooperators]
Jurors presumably eating the Danish pastries and bagels the court provides to lure them in before 9:30 am

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Judge Ramos: The jurors are all here. Can we have Mr Ignatov brought out? ... Okay, we'll continue with the direct examination of the witness. Mr Folly?
AUSA Folly: What happened after Ruja gave you a gift of a house?
Konstantin: I became a leader in OneCoin

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA: Were investors dissatisfied with OneCoin?
Konstantin: Yes. Promises weren't kept. I started getting death threats on the phone.
AUSA: Any other threats?
Konstantin: Someone put a gun in my back and I was put in a mini van. I was taken to suburbs of Sophia...

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: Then there was the time I was confronted by members of the Hell's Angels.
AUSA: After those incidents, did you continue to work with OneCoin?
Konstantin: Yes.
AUSA: Did you hear of arrests?
Konstantin: Yes, of Sebastian Greenwood and Mark Scott.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: I heard that bribes were paid in Asia. Then I traveled to the US in February 2019.
AUSA: What was the purpose of the trip?
Konstantin: Meetings about the network. I landed in San Fransisco, border patrol took my phone and computer.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA: Were you truthful?
Konstantin: No.
AUSA: Why not?
Konstantin: Because I knew I was working for a fraud scheme and I didn't want to get caught.
AUSA: What did you do next?
Konstantin: I threw out my computer.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA: Where?
Konstantin: I put it in a trash back and threw it out in Las Vegas. But when I went to LAX to fly out, I got arrested by the FBI.
AUSA: were you truthful?
Konstantin: No. I saw things were getting serious. I was afraid of going to jail.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA: When did you start cooperating with government?
Konstantin: Months after my arrest.
[Inner City Press note: #6ix9ine started cooperating the same day he was arrested - there are difference, of course, including his car jacking by Harv Ellison].

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA: Did you plead guilty?
Konstantin: Yes.
[But when? Was the proceeding closed? Or just, no one went? Inner City Press has questions pending with US Attorney's Office spokesman, since yesterday.]
AUSA: Is this your cooperation agreement?
Konstantin: Yes

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: let's turn to the OneCoin packages. How did people pay?
Konstantin: They would bring cash, like to the office in Sophia. They'd get a code for educational package.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA: Where would the cash go?
Konstantin: to the safe on the third floor. The size of a little room.
AUSA Folly: What there a large about of money in there?
Scott's lawyer: Objection.
Judge Ramos: Overruled.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Was it common for Ruja to go shopping?
Konstantin: Very very common. Expensive brands, jewelry.
AUSA: How much did the jewelry cost?
Konstantin: One item was over $1 million.
AUSA: What was her source of income?
Konstantin: She was running OneCoin.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: She bought a big mansion for her husband in Frankfurt, Germany.
[Inner City Press note: cc @JamieJBartlett]

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: did you ever stay in Ruja's mansion in Dubai?
Konstantin: It was still under construction.
AUSA Folly: What kind of cars did she have?
Konstantin: A Porsche, an armored Lexus... She was always afraid someone would kidnap her.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: These are pictures of Ruja's yacht, named after her daughter.
AUSA: How much did Ruja make from OneCoin before she disappeared?
Konstantin: Over $500 million.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA: Did you ever invest in OneCoin?
Konstantin: No.
AUSA Folly: Did Ruja ever invest in OneCoin?
Konstantin: No.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA: Let's turn to Ruja's company in London, Ravenar [spelling unclear for now - US Attorney's Office has not (yet) responded to Press with exhibits] Who invested in it?

Konstantin: There were two Russian gentlemen, one called Anton...

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Are you familiar with the law firm Hogan Lovells?
Konstantin: Yes. Ruja said she got a legal opinion from them.
AUSA: Did Ruja have any other lawyers on OneCoin business?
Konstantin: Yes. A Martin Bridenback [spelling?]

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: There was a special apartment in Hong Kong that was filled with cash?
AUSA: Did it ever get stolen?
Konstantin: Yes, Sebastian Greenwood stole over $100 million.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: Greenwood returned a lot of the money, after Ruja threatened him... Once a Chinese gentleman stole-
Scott's lawyer: Objection!
Judge Ramos: Sustained.
AUSA Folly: Can we have a sidebar?
Judge Ramos: Sure.
[@SDNYLIVE Q: hearsay? Or ethnic reference?]

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info After the sidebar, Konstantin Ignatov is naming the people who told him about other thefts, including by the [still unnamed] "Chinese gentleman."
AUSA: We'll come back to Mr. Aziz who stole at least 100 million Euros from OneCoin.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Who was this Mr. Aziz?
Konstantin: One of the main money launderers for Ruja.
AUSA: Did you ever report to the police any of these theft?
Konstantin: No. The money came from a criminal activity.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Here's an email from Ruja, "I have a meeting with one of the Sheikhs in Dubai who will try to get something done for us but I will only discuss it with you in person."
[Again, Inner City Press has requested exhibits from US Attorney's Press Office.]

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Who mostly set up the shell companies?
Konstantin: Irina Dilkinska.
AUSA: As a Bulgarian, what did you call those who worked on this?
Konstantin: Monkeys.
AUSA: OneCoin investors sent money to these shell companies?
Konstantin: Yes.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Did Ruja take a small or large amount?
Scott's lawyer: Objection.
Judge Ramos: Re-phrase.
AUSA Folly: Compared to other OneCoin investors, was it a small or large amount?
Scott's lawyer: Objection!
Judge Ramos: Overruled.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: Sebastian Greenwood also took large portions, like Ruja.
AUSA Folly: Who was Gilbert Armenta?
Konstantin: He was Ruja's boyfriend...

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Who is this?
Konstantin: It's Sebastian Greenwood, Ruja and Gilbert Armenta. And Irina Dilkinska.
[Gov Exhibits 123 and 124, Inner City Press has requested access to these exhibits from US Attorney's Press Office, as in #Honduras & #6ix9ine trials]

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: Before Ruja disappeared, Irina Dilkinska sat on the 3rd floor of OneCoin's office. After, she left with one of the shell companies, LEON (spelling), so that she didn't get associated with OneCoin.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Again, who was Gilbert Armenta?
Konstantin: "He was Ruja Ignatova's boyfriend, business partner and major money launderer."
[Konstantin does not call Ruja "my sister." Maybe he'll be asked to on cross-examination.]

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin wrote an email to Gilbert Armenta introducing himself as "Doctor Ruja's new assistant" - no mention of being brother. The email was to arrange a meeting in Barcelona.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Let's turn to this exhibit, starting from page 2... Who is Victor?
Konstantin: A Bulgarian lawyer in charge of Ruja's properties.
Now a long pause. Is government near the end of exam of Konstantin? No- now Gov Exhibit 55, data from Scott's wife's phone

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: When Mark Scott came to Sophia and the OneCoin office, did you meet him?
Konstantin: Yes. I got him a water and showed him into Ruja's office. Ruja told me to bring in Irina Dilkinska then to tell everyone to go home so they could be alone

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Did you stay?
Konstantin: No, I went home with everyone.
AUSA: Was it comment for Ruja to order people to go home?
Konstantin: No, this was the only time.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Judge Ramos: Let's take a break. Thread will continue, and new stories. Yesterday's: innercitypress.com/sdny17onecoini… and patreon.com/posts/31340517

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info And we're back, with AUSA Folly asked Konstantin Ignatov about his "100" email exchanges with Mark Scott.
Yes, Inner City Press has asked the US Attorney's Press Office for access to these exhibits.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info According to the government exhibit, read out by AUSA Folly, Mark Scott wrote to Konstantin, "I don't Skype, very unsafe... So I've flown all this way to meet her."
[It would seem Scott's lawyer's will want to address this seeming guilty knowledge, when they cross

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: After Ruja disappeared, what did you do?
Konstantin: I tried to find where OneCoin had money. I spoke with Frank Schneider.
AUSA: Who was he?
Konstantin: Ruja got her information about law enforcement investigations from him. He was a money launderer

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: So Schneider wrote that authorities knew of transfers to Ireland
[Inner City Press: given the witnesses who declined to testify, even by video, this jury will only hear of Bank of Ireland from stipulations - which despite requests we still don't have

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA: Schneider wrote that the law enforcement presentation made no mention of M.S. - who was that?
Konstantin: Mark Scott.
AUSA: And Schneider said US had well placed informant who might be M.S., should be careful.
Konstantin: Yes. And I was told I was mentioned

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: E-mail says, Created on protonmail. What's that?
Konstantin: Encrypted email.
AUSA: Did others in OneCoin use protonmail?
Konstantin: Yes.
[Inner City Press: no sure what this proves, or why Scott's lawyers didn't object to the implication. #JustSayin

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: Amr Abdul Aziz, after he stole 100 milion Euros from OneCoin, he started buying race horses, for like 25 million Euros... Then we became convinced that Irina Dilkinska was taking money from OneCoin too.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Foley: What were the Fenero Funds?
Konstantin: Mark Scott. For money laundering.
AUSA Foley: Where did you first meet Gilbert Armenta?
Konstantin: In Sophia, Bulgaria. Then again at Ruja's daughter's birthday party, or christening, at the Bulgaria seaside

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Where did Ruja's husband live?
Konstantin: In Frankfurt, Germany.
AUSA Folly: And where did Ruja live?
Konstantin: In Sophia, Bulgaria.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: What did you talk to about with Gilbert Armenta at Sozopol?
Konstantin: Mostly sports. And women. But he also brought up money and Ruja.
AUSA Folly: What did Ruja tell you about Gilbert Armenta?
Konstantin: That he was an international money launderer

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA: Who did Gilbert Armenta work with on money laundering?
Konstantin: Mark Scott, Amr Abdul Aziz and Alex Ortega.
AUSA: In what region did he work?
Konstantin: Latin America.
AUSA introduces exhibit about Ortega opening accounts in #Brazil for OneCoin/OneLife

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Since Ruja disappeared, have you seen her or spoken with her?
Konstantin: No.
AUSA Folly: Before she disappeared, what did she tell you?
Konstantin: That she got a 'big passport,' like Frank Schneider and Sebastian Greenwood.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: "As her brother, I wanted to know how she was, why she was so worried. I went to her house and witnessed her having more or less a nervous breakdown. She told me Armenta was giving her up to the FBI."

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Was Gilbert Armenta married or single?
Konstantin: Married. But they were both talking about getting divorced and having kids together.
AUSA Folly: Where was Armenta living?
Konstantin: In Florida.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: How did Ruja learn about Armenta working with the FBI?
Konstantin: An apartment was bought underneath Armenta's and a hole was drilled in the ceiling to listen in. AUSA: Who bought the apartment?
Konstantin: One of Frank Schneider's people.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: Ruja was suspicious that Armenta did not plan to leave his wife for her, that's why she had the hole drilled to listen in [!!
and that's why Ruja's learned he was working with the FBI?]

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly plays a recorded call in which Ruja, after hearing the hole-in-the-floor recordings, told Armenta: "I never knew you were such a spineless asshole... I don't deserve this, and she doesn't either. It's not cool."

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: After that, Ruja said she was very tired. She asked me to set up meetings with each of the senior OneCoin people, at her house. She met with them one by one. I sat in the kitchen.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info Konstantin: Then Ruja asked me to get her plane tickets to Vienna then Athens. She went to Athens and the security guard with her told me she was met by some people, who spoke Russian.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: Were you aware of any connection of your sister and Russia?

Konstantin: Ruja told me she knew someone very rich and powerful there.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly: After Ruja disappeared, did you take any steps to find her?
Konstantin: We tried a private investigator, not successful. Then we tried with Frank Schneider. He brought with him a former Special Forces employee who was responsible for kidnapping

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA: Were any of these steps successful?
Konstantin: No.

AUSA: Did Mark Scott use a cryptophone like Ruja?
Konstantin: Yes. But he wrote to me saying his didn't work. I told him to send it to our Dubai office. [GX exhibit, requested by Press but not yet provided

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info AUSA Folly concluded with questions about Ruja burning documents in her house before disappearing. Then says, "Nothing further."
Judge Ramos: We'll have a break before cross examination of Mr. Ignatov.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info [During break, Inner City Press will "cover" and tweet UN noon briefing it is banned from entering UN to attend for 491st day by corrupt - and coin fraud protecting! - UNSG @AntonioGuterres].
#OneCoin trial thread will continue soon, here. pscp.tv/w/1ZkKzAEEMYyxv

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres OK, the jury's break is over (Judge Ramos said their snacks were late).
Now Scott's lawyer Arlo Devlin-Brown is starting to cross examine Konstantin Ignatov.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Arlo: You testified about what Irina Dilkinska told you about Mark Scott. But you had reason to doubt Ms Dilkinska, no? [No real answer.] We'll come back to that.
Arlo: You only met Mark Scott once, right?
Konstanin: Right.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Arlo: You never texted with Mark Scott?
Konstantin: Only e-mail.

Arlo: Are you sure that Irina Dilkinska was at the meeting you testified about?
Konstanin: I'm pretty sure.
Arlo: 100% sure?
Konstantin: I'm pretty sure Ruja said bring her up.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Arlo: You said Irina told you Ruja disparaged Mark Scott?
Konstantin: No, I heard Ruja on the phone talking.

Arlo: The US gave you a binder of emails with Mark Scott. They are mostly about travel, not about Fenero Funds or block-chain, right?
Konstantin: Right

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Arlo: "So Mister Ignatove," of these 80-some emails, Mark Scott only took a few trips, right?
Konstantin: Right.
Arlo: You talked about attending OneCoin conferences, like in June of 2016, the "This Girl is On Fire" conference, right?
Konstantin: Right.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Arlo Devin Brown plays the same loud video as the government did, then asks, Did you see Mark Scott there, among the 3000 people?
Konstantin: No.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Arlo: You proposed a meeting in Mexico City... You're saying Mark Scott didn't want to go to Mexico City, to not be involved in any OneCoin event?
Konstantin: I remember he told me [by email presumably] that he didn't want to go to Sophia for that reason.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Arlo: Could we put the screen Government Exhibit 4049, please? The email on the top, Mr. Scott is telling you he can't meet with Ruja Ignatova that week, right?
Konstantin: Right.
Arlo: You helped run OneLife network, right?
Konstantin: I was paid for a few events

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Arlo: And Mr. Scott was not at any OneLife Network meeting, right?
Konstantin: Right.
Arlo: Do you recall a Mercedes was put on auction for OneCoin?
Konstantin: It was a BMW.
Arlo: Ok, a BMW. The price in OneCoin got so expensive it was cancelled, right?
Right.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Arlo: And you said to the people who organized the auction that if they did it again, you would chop their head off?
Konstantin: I never said chopped.
Arlo: Did you say, Cut your head off?
Konstantin: Maybe that Heads will roll.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres Arlo: The emails between Ruja and Stebastian Greenwood from 2014, when did you see them?
Konstantin: After I was arrested.
Arlo: Did they have a romantic relationship?
Konstantin: Something strange. They hugged and called each other brother and sister [!]

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres AUSA Folly has asked for a whispered sidebar; Judge Ramos has granted it.

Meanwhile Inner City Press is trying to figure out if the Abdulaziz just mentioned as buying horses is... this guy: @amerabdulaziz (feel free to reply with no, @SDNYLIVE).

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres @amerabdulaziz Sidebar is over. Arlo asking Konstantin Ignatov about 2015 emails between Ruja & Greenwood saying that the mining was fake.
Arlo: But you didn't know that then, right?
Konstantin: Right.
[Apparently the implication is supposed to be, how was Scott to have known]

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres @amerabdulaziz Arlo: You remember the government asking you about seeing cash in a safe?
Konstantin: Yes.
Arlo: But you have no idea what Ruja said about where that money came from?
Konstantin: Not on calls that I wasn't on

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres @amerabdulaziz Arlo: The people at "Ravenar" (sp) in London, they didn't appear shady, did they?
AUSA: Objection.
Judge Ramos: Overruled.
Arlo: They called it a family office, right?
Konstantin: I read that for the right time.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres @amerabdulaziz Now Arlo seems to be mocking Konstantin Ignatov having been working in a dog shelter before he went to work for Ruja at OneCoin.
Wait: 2800 Euros a month at the dog shelter in Germany? Then 3000 Euros a month working for his sister in Sophia?
Details, details....

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres @amerabdulaziz Arlo: When you joined OneCoin, you believed it had a blockchain, right?
Konstantin: Right.
Arlo: Ruja has fired her assistant because she suspected her of having a romantic relationship with Sebastian Greenwood?
Konstantin: That's correct.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres @amerabdulaziz Arlo: Ruja never told you that OneCoin didn't have a blockchain, right?
Konstantin: Right.
Arlo: Didn't Ruja tell you the blockchain had KYC information right in it?
Konstantin: Yes.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres @amerabdulaziz Arlo: And Ruja told you that bloggers who questioned OneCoin were just haters, right?
Konstantin: That's what they were called.
Arlo: And an I.T. guy called Ivan said he was showing you the blockchain, right?
Konstantin: Yes.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres @amerabdulaziz Arlo: Don't you call Irina on a Friday afternoon drinking in the OneCoin office and saying that there was a problem--
AUSA: Can we have a brief sidebar?
Judge Ramos: Yes.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres @amerabdulaziz Arlo: so since you've been in detention, you emailed your mother that you are innocent?
Konstantin: I told everyone that. My fiance, too.
Arlo: Your lawyer got letters of support for your bail application.
Konstantin: Yes. But I did not read them.

@sdnylive @MatthewLeeICP @Svrakata @widell_ari @ezCoinAccess @JenMcAdamUK @JamieJBartlett @FinanceWatchOrg @FUNCA_info @antonioguterres @amerabdulaziz Arlo Devlin-Brown: Who was doing to pay [or secure] your bond?
Konstantin: My mother was going to sign.
Arlo: Doesn't she still work at OneCoin?

Judge Ramos: it's 2:30, let's end for the day. Dress warmly tomorrow. Inner City Press stories soon - & tomorrow