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Ruja Plamenova Ignatova, also known by the nickname "Cryptoqueen", is a Bulgarian-German entrepreneur and con artist. She is one of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, and is best known as the founder of the fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme OneCoin, which The Times described as "one of the biggest scams in history." She was the subject of the 2019 BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen and the…
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business · Bulgarian and German fraudster (born 1980) · thief · con artist · businessperson · also Ruja Ignatova, Ruya Ignatova, Ruja Ignatova Dabek, Ruzha Ignatova, Ignatova
Born 30 May 1980 · Q20819716
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And 2024 suggested that Ignatova may have been murdered in 2018 on the orders of Bulgarian organised crime figure "Taki" Hristoforos Nikos Amanatidis, who is suspected of initially sheltering her
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Prosecutors in Darmstadt, Germany confirmed an investigation of "a lawyer from Neu-Isenburg" for possible money laundering: the transfer of 7
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An indictment was unsealed in which the United States charges Ignatova with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering
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Her brother Konstantin Ignatov pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering in connection with the scheme
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Ignatova was scheduled to speak to an audience of OneCoin investors in Lisbon
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (2014–2017).
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Founded a pyramid scheme called OneCoin
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Was involved with a multi-level marketing scam called BigCoin
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Was convicted of fraud in Germany in connection with her father Plamen Ignatov's acquisition of a company that shortly afterwards was declared bankrupt under dubious circumstances; she was given a suspended sentence
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Amid the Great Recession, Ignatova purchased property near Frankfurt and contemplated returning to Germany, but ultimately stayed in Bulgaria
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With a PhD in private international law with the dissertation Art
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And spent the remainder of her childhood in a small apartment in Schramberg
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Born 1980-05-30.
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