She Made $4 Billion With a Fake Cryptocurrency

Ruja Ignatova sold a fake cryptocurrency called OneCoin — branded the "Bitcoin killer" — and, according to U.S. prosecutors, took in over $4 billion from millions of investors before boarding a flight to Athens in 2017 and vanishing. This is the full OneCoin story: the Wembley show, the coin with no blockchain, the co-founders who all went to prison, and the FBI manhunt still running. Legal note: Ruja Ignatova has been CHARGED, never tried or convicted, and is presumed innocent; she remains on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Associates (Greenwood, Konstantin Ignatov, Mark Scott, Dilkinska, Armenta) were convicted. The 2018 'murder' claim comes from an unverified leaked police report, attributed as such. Figures are attributed to the DOJ, the BBC, and court records. Sources: U.S. DOJ/SDNY, FBI Ten Most Wanted, U.S. State Dept, BBC 'The Missing Cryptoqueen', court filings. #business #crypto #onecoin #cryptoqueen #riseandfall