‘Cryptoqueen’ Wanted by FBI for Role in $4,000,000,000 Pyramid Scheme Sells Luxury Apartment in UK: Report

A BBC report says that new transparency necessities within the UK present that Ruja Ignatova, the alleged co-founder of the $4 billion pyramid scheme OneCoin, is the proprietor of a luxurious penthouse property in London that was listed on the market.

In keeping with the report, the luxurious condo that was initially listed for $15.49 million was put up on the market by German prosecutors based mostly in Bielefeld, a metropolis in northwest Germany.

Ignatova, who’s often known as the “cryptoqueen,” is a Bulgarian-born German nationwide and was final publicly seen in October 2017. Her disappearance coincided with police investigations into the alleged OneCoin rip-off intensifying.

The BBC says that previous to Ignatova being revealed to be the luxurious condo’s final proprietor, the property was registered to Aquitaine Group Restricted, a Guernsey-based wealth supervisor. Ignatova’s German lawyer, Martin Breidenbach, is at the moment dealing with cash laundering prices for facilitating the switch of $21.7 million to buy the luxurious condo. The London property was bought for $16.7 million in 2016.

Whereas the property agent dealing with the sale, Knight Frank, couldn’t verify whether or not the luxurious condo discovered a purchaser, the report says that it’s now not listed. The property’s value was lowered to $13.6 million at one level, in response to the report.

The BBC report comes just a little over a month since a co-founder of the OneCoin scheme, Karl Sebastian Greenwood, pleaded responsible to prices of cash laundering and wire fraud within the US.

In keeping with the U.S. Division of Justice, Ignatova was the highest resolution maker at OneCoin whereas Greenwood was the chief of scheme’s multi-level advertising (MLM) community.

“Ignatova served as OneCoin’s high chief till her disappearance from public view in October 2017. Greenwood was OneCoin’s ‘world grasp distributor’ and the chief of the MLM community by which the fraudulent cryptocurrency was marketed and bought.”

Greenwood, who was arrested in 2018 in Thailand, faces a most jail sentence of 60 years.

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