Monday, January 23, 2023

The FBI Needs Your Help Finding The Woman Who Stole $4 Billion

Apparently the FBI has been occupied doing other stuff for the last five years.

From New Delhi Television, January 23:

Ruja Ignatova: FBI's Most Wanted Scammer Behind $4 Billion Fraud
In October 2017, Ruja Ignatova boarded a plane in Sofia, Bulgaria, and vanished. She hasn't been seen since. 

Ruja Ignatova, a 42-year-old woman dubbed the 'Cryptoqueen', features in the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives for allegedly swindling millions of investors of more than $4 billion (roughly ₹ 31,580 crore) through the OneCoin cryptocurrency company she founded, CNN reported. 

The fraud scheme began way back in 2014 when Ignatova defrauded billions of dollars from investors all over the world through her new company OneCoin. In 2016, she even made an appearance at London's Wembley Arena, and touted OneCoin, as a lucrative rival to Bitcoin in the growing cryptocurrency market. 

However, sixteen months later in October 2017, Ignatova boarded a plane in Sofia, Bulgaria, and vanished with the stolen money. She disappeared around the time US authorities filed a sealed indictment and warrant for her arrest. Her current whereabouts remain unknown with law enforcement agencies struggling to find any trace....

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Here's the FBI's Ten Most Wanted poster. 

Under aliases is lists "....CryptoQueen"

And under remarks "Ignatova is believed to travel with armed guards and/or associates. Ignatova may have had plastic surgery or otherwise altered her appearance." so if you spot someone who looks nothing like Ignatova but has a retinue well there you go.

I'm guessing the nom de fraud has been superseded by something a bit less on-the-nose, as they say in Hollywood but should you overhear a posse cryptically referring to the Queen, you may be on the way to rewardsville. Or a restraining order.