In October 2017, the facade crumbled. Just as U.S. authorities were closing in, Ignatova boarded a flight from Sofia, Bulgaria, and vanished, taking an estimated $4.5 billion with her.
In the nefarious world of financial thievery, one name stands taller than the rest: Ruja Ignatova. Once hailed as a prophetic cryptocurrency mind, her disappearance in 2017 left behind billions of swindled cash and she was branded an infamous one among the greatest scams at all time called the “Cryptoqueen.”.
Ignatova’s ascension started in 2014 when she started OneCoin, purportedly as the rival of Bitcoin. Captivating investors across continents with promises of huge returns, in 2016, she could fill out Wembley in London with her confident, almost jaunty stage presence. But there was a very frightening truth: OneCoin wasn’t a cryptocurrency at all; it was a Ponzi scheme disguised.
In October 2017, the facade crumbled. Just as U.S. authorities were closing in, Ignatova boarded a flight from Sofia, Bulgaria, and vanished, taking an estimated $4.5 billion with her. Her escape has since become the stuff of legend, eluding some of the world’s most determined investigators.
Ignatova’s story is one of contrasts: a Bulgarian-born, Oxford-educated lawyer who once consulted for McKinsey & Company, she used her brilliance not for innovation but for deceit. Her global con unraveled the lives of countless victims, lured by promises of
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