A money laundering case in a German court highlighted another piece of the puzzle that represents Ruzha Ignatova and her criminal endeavors for the whole world. Recent revelations have revealed that lawyers and financial intermediaries in London continue to operate on Ignatova’s money, even though she has been missing for nearly four years and half a dozen international services and an army of private detectives are searching for her.
A former porter in one of the most expensive buildings, Abbots House in Kensington, remembers her first meeting with Dr. Ruzha Ignatova in London in 2016, still a respected businesswoman at the time. The man says that the “crypto queen” was guarded only by her compatriots – she was guarded by two groups of two muscular Bulgarians.
In addition to the doorman, one of the policemen who participated in the search of the super-luxury apartment for nearly 13 million pounds of the Bulgarian woman wanted for theft of several billion dollars, who the authorities established a few weeks ago that he used, spoke to the British media. Works of art worth more than half a million pounds have been found in the luxury property, all of which were bought legally from the Halcyon Gallery in London.
On September 17, Ignatova’s German lawyer, Martin Breidenbach, along with two other accomplices, was tried in Munster on charges of money laundering and transferring nearly 20 million euros from offshore accounts to a London law firm. The funds were used to finance the purchase of a luxury property in London.
The scandal with the Bulgarian woman, who according to the British authorities has misappropriated nearly 4 billion euros, managed to shake several European countries, including the financial capitals of the Old Continent – Berlin and London. The media continue to ask how reputable law firms have allowed themselves to operate with Ignatova’s money, for which since the beginning of 2016 there are a number of indications that the origin of the money <210> is more than dubious.
German and British lawyers began work on the property deal just months after Dr. Ruzha Ignatova pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and draining a metal factory in Germany. The scheme left 150 people jobless and with several unpaid salaries in 2011.
The media in the UK recall that in September 2019, the UK authorities issued a statement that “they are unable to identify any assets of OneCoin in the UK” with which to secure even a minimal part of the company’s liabilities.
The existence of these properties in London is interesting news for millions of victims of the OneCoin fraud, who for several years have been waiting to receive at least partial compensation for the money stolen from Ruzha Ignatova. The BBC estimates that investors in the UK alone have lost more than £ 100 million in the pyramid.
In early June 2016, a 36-year-old business lady named Dr. Ruzha Ignatova took the stage at Wembley Arena in front of thousands of investors from around the world. From the stage, she promised that OneCoin was on its way to becoming the largest cryptocurrency in the world. Ignatova was successfully using the bitcoin boom at the time, and millions of people around the world were rushing to join this new opportunity.
In the next 12 months, the Bulgarian will travel around the world to attract investors on four continents. According to estimates by British journalists for the period from June 2016 to August 2017, an average of 3 million euros enter the pyramid every day. And Ruzha Ignatova began spending her new fortune, buying properties for several million in Sofia and the Black Sea resort of Sozopol.
Behind the successful façade, however, problems arose. The opening of a long-promised exchange that would allow OneCoin to be freely traded or exchanged for conventional currencies continued to be delayed. Tensions were to be eased at a large gathering of European investors in OneCoin in October 2017 in Lisbon.
However, Ruzha Ignatova did not appear. FBI records show that on October 25, 2017, just two weeks after the mega event in Lisbon, she boarded a Ryanair flight from Sofia to Athens. This is the last officially confirmed information about Ignatova, which has been illegal for 4 years. According to private detectives hired by deceived Britons, the Bulgarian woman moves freely around the world after several plastic surgeries and with two passports – Russian and Ukrainian.
The new revelations about the assets that Ignatova still owns are a sure sign of one thing – the self-proclaimed “crypto queen” is still active. This is evidenced by the movement of a number of its former close and subsidiary companies from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, Dubai and Russia. For the victims of the OneCoin pyramid, the hope remains that sooner or later Interpol or the FBI will be able to capture the Bulgarian and reach the stolen billions.
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