dr Ruja Ignatova (42) is one of the tallest scammers of criminal history and is said to be on the run with several billion.
The FBI in Washington (USA) has them in the list of the ten most wanted criminal. Now, reports have surfaced claiming that Ignatova has not been alive since 2018.
What’s behind it?
Snowball system “OneCoin”
In 2014, the Bulgarian with German citizenship founded the cryptocurrency “OneCoin”. The company’s primary business was the sale of course materials, most of which were reported to be fake or plagiarized. Ultimately, OneCoin was a stealth Ponzi scheme that brought in $4 billion by 2016.
The fraud was noticed. While co-founder Sebastian Greenwood is in prison in the USA, there is still no trace of crypto queen Ruja Ignatova.
Homicide detective killed
well have two Bulgarian investigative journalists Documents published proving that Ignatova is long dead.
These are said to be several transcripts of a tapped conversation. They were found in the apartment of the former head of the Bulgarian homicide squad, Lyubomir Ivanov. He was shot dead in Sofia on March 25, 2022 at the age of 49. Ivanov reportedly worked for one of Bulgaria’s biggest drug lords, Hristoforos Amanatidis, aka Taki. And Ruja Ignatova is also said to have been closely connected to Taki.
“Ignatova’s body was dismembered”
According to the documents, Ruja Ignatova was killed in November 2018 on Taki’s orders in Greece. The murder is said to have happened on a yacht and the body was dismembered and thrown into the Ionian Sea.
Allegedly, the drug lord wanted to cover up his involvement in the OneCoin crypto platform with Ignatova’s disappearance. The killer, believed to be a man named Hristo Hristov, is already in custody in the Netherlands following being caught with a large amount of heroin some time ago.
It is not yet known whether the documents are authentic. The Bulgarian Interior Ministry is silent on the case.