Crypto Queen Ruja Ignatova: Alive or dead after the $4.5B heist?
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The life or death of OneCoin founder and alleged scammer crypto queen Ruja Ignatova remains a mystery. Ignatova scammed investors of $4.5 billion and vanished with no verifiable trace of life or death. In what seems like a crime thriller, the mystery of the missing mastermind behind the OneCoin Ponzi scheme, better known as crypto queen Ruja Ignatova, leaves more questions than answers. In 2014, Ignatova successfully swindled 3.5 million investors out of $4.5 billion after promising them unimaginable Bitcoin-like returns from her cryptocurrency, OneCoin. After the heist, the Oxford-educated Bulgarian woman vanished, not to be traced. Thus fueling the mystery of her story 10 years later. Her dare-devil scam earned her a spot as one of the top ten most-wanted fugitives by the FBI. Is Crypto queen Ruja Ignatova alive or dead? In a recent exclusive by BBC, the media outlet attempted to solve the mystery behind the Ignatova story and whether she’s alive or dead. Apparently, Ignatova was allegedly connected to Bulgarian organized crime, which was led by Hristoforos Nikos Amanatidis, alias Taki. Interestingly, Taki was her handler and physical security, shielding her from local and international investigations. Additionally, investigations pointed towards possible laundering of Taki’s ‘drug trafficking’ activities through OneCoin operations. As US and German authorities were closing in on Ignatova, she was forced to flee from Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, to Athens, Greece, in 2017. However, Ignatova’s protector could have turned into an aggressor, per investigative journalist Dimitar Stoyanov of ‘bird.bg’ outlet. Reportedly, Ignatova was murdered in late 2018, and her body was dismembered and dumped in the Ionian Sea, located on the west coast of Greece. The murder was allegedly on Taki’s orders, per the BBC report. The Mystery continues However, the BBC report claimed that it couldn’t ‘independently verify the claim’ and deemed it a way…
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