The “Crypto Queen” story is one for the ages. Ruja Ignatova a Bulgarian national, who came out of nowhere and was able to raise $4 billion for her coin called OneCoin which was deemed a “Bitcoin killer”.
This story clearly epitomizes and encapsulates the crypto community and the type of persons it attracts. The fact that she was able to raise that amount of money and disappear makes the continuing saga interesting.
Making it to the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list is not something to be proud of, the FBI is making a statement that this is still a person of interest who need to be brought to trial for her crimes.
Currently, they are offering $100,000 for her arrest. For a person who has been on the run since 2017, that’s quite a lot of money for someone to provide details of her whereabouts.
She is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Although her whereabouts are unknown at the moment, the time has caught up to her brother Konstantin Ignatov who pled guilty to fraud and money laundering in relation to the whole OneCoin scheme.
He has yet to be sentenced and probably one of the reasons is that they still need the “Crypto Queen” in order to combine the case
Sadly, she is not the first case of someone in the crypto community disappearing or faking their death after a successful heist. It will not be the last as well, as the old adage goes, “There’s a sucker born every minute”.
