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Ruja Ignatova is also suspected of hiding in Montenegro, she is behind the OneCoin ponzi scheme and has successfully been on the run for 5 years now. It appear

by janmo 4y ago

Ruja Ignatova is also suspected of hiding in Montenegro, she is behind the OneCoin ponzi scheme and has successfully been on the run for 5 years now. It appears that Do Kwon did a very rookie mistake by believing he could take a plane at the airport like every one else.

hiidrew 4y ago
saw this from a couple of days ago - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged-role-multi-billion-dollar-cryptocurrency-pyramid-scheme-onecoin https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged...
- dmix 4y ago
  Was she hiding too or were they just waiting, maybe hoping it could provide more information?
- dannyw 4y ago
  Charge is not arrest
  - Jolter 4y ago
    But extradited is arrest.
    - dredmorbius 4y ago
      Different individual, as I've been corrected earlier.
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    From the DOJ link above, first paragraph: DILKINSKA was extradited from Bulgaria yesterday and will be presented before United States Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn later today. <https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged-role-multi-billion-dollar-cryptocurrency-pyramid-scheme-onecoin https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged...> She is in US custody.
    - gorbachev 4y ago
      The head of compliance of OneCoin was extradited. Not Ruja Ignatova herself.
      - dredmorbius 4y ago
        Doh! I'd glossed over that. Thanks, and I stand corrected.
- automatic6131 4y ago
  tl;dr they arrested Ignatova's head of compliance for OneCoin I hope this woman has knowledge of the whereabouts of Ignatova. Disgusting that you can get away with running a billion dollar ponzi, and get away with the loot too.
  - fisherjeff 4y ago
    I mean to be fair, if you’re going to do a Ponzi, you better make sure it pays you at least a billion dollars because you are definitely going to (a) be unable to access some probably very large portion of it, and (b) have to go completely off the grid. If your Ponzi pays out like 100k, you’re going straight to jail.
m3kw9 4y ago
How is that a rookie mistake, it’s total idiocy
- jeron 4y ago
  If I pulled off a billion dollar scam, I’d only fly private but in music equipment boxes
  - m3kw9 4y ago
    I bet someone sold him a bridge(we brought off customs and you will sail through) for a big sum. Of course he cannot verify till he got there to see himself.
Hamuko 4y ago
The grapevine is of the opinion that Ignatova has spent the last few years on the bottom of the sea, so that'd definitely be a plausible explanation as to how she's not been captured yet.
INTPenis 4y ago
Well the podgorica airport is notoriously shitty.
bandrami 4y ago
I thought she fell out a window?

by janmo 4y ago

hiidrew 4y ago

saw this from a couple of days ago - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged-role-multi-billion-dollar-cryptocurrency-pyramid-scheme-onecoin https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged...

dmix 4y ago
Was she hiding too or were they just waiting, maybe hoping it could provide more information?
dannyw 4y ago
Charge is not arrest
- Jolter 4y ago
  But extradited is arrest.
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    Different individual, as I've been corrected earlier.
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  From the DOJ link above, first paragraph: DILKINSKA was extradited from Bulgaria yesterday and will be presented before United States Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn later today. <https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged-role-multi-billion-dollar-cryptocurrency-pyramid-scheme-onecoin https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged...> She is in US custody.
  - gorbachev 4y ago
    The head of compliance of OneCoin was extradited. Not Ruja Ignatova herself.
    - dredmorbius 4y ago
      Doh! I'd glossed over that. Thanks, and I stand corrected.
automatic6131 4y ago
tl;dr they arrested Ignatova's head of compliance for OneCoin I hope this woman has knowledge of the whereabouts of Ignatova. Disgusting that you can get away with running a billion dollar ponzi, and get away with the loot too.
- fisherjeff 4y ago
  I mean to be fair, if you’re going to do a Ponzi, you better make sure it pays you at least a billion dollars because you are definitely going to (a) be unable to access some probably very large portion of it, and (b) have to go completely off the grid. If your Ponzi pays out like 100k, you’re going straight to jail.

m3kw9 4y ago

How is that a rookie mistake, it’s total idiocy

jeron 4y ago
If I pulled off a billion dollar scam, I’d only fly private but in music equipment boxes
- m3kw9 4y ago
  I bet someone sold him a bridge(we brought off customs and you will sail through) for a big sum. Of course he cannot verify till he got there to see himself.

Hamuko 4y ago

The grapevine is of the opinion that Ignatova has spent the last few years on the bottom of the sea, so that'd definitely be a plausible explanation as to how she's not been captured yet.

INTPenis 4y ago

Well the podgorica airport is notoriously shitty.

bandrami 4y ago

I thought she fell out a window?