A London court has seized the assets of “crypto queen” Ruzha Ignatova for defrauding her of $4.5 billion through the OneCoin scheme, the BBC reported. The global asset freeze order for the wanted by the FBI, Interpol, defrauded investors and private investigators was issued on Wednesday by the High Court in London. It was imposed as part of a class-action lawsuit filed by more than 400 investors in cryptocurrency OneCoin, which turned out to be a fraudulent scheme.
Thus, the cryptoqueen’s assets will no longer be able to be sold or transferred to another owner.
Ruzha Ignatova was last seen getting off a Ryanair flight in Athens more than six years ago. After that, there is no trace of her. Attempts by OneCoin investors to obtain substantial compensation for their losses have so far failed, as has the search for Ignatova. US authorities recently announced a $5 million reward for information on her whereabouts.
According to BBC calculations, people from the UK alone who invested in OneCoin lost more than 100 million pounds. The freezing order doesn’t just apply to the missing crypto queen. It also refers to seven more of her co-conspirators and four companies, all of which were allegedly connected to OneCoin in some form. It is not clear how exactly the order of the London court will be implemented in the other countries where she has property, assets, properties, money.
Over the past years, doubts have been repeatedly expressed that Rozha Ignatova might not be among the living. Rumors connect her with prominent representatives of the Bulgarian underground such as Christoforos Amanatidis-Taki.
OneCoin was founded in 2014. In the following three years, the cryptocurrency managed to attract millions of investments with promises of great returns. According to the investigators, the system operated on the principle of the pyramid – the profits did not come from investments, but from attracting new people to give money.
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