Key facts:
Ruja Ignatova would have kept USD 4,000 million from investors of the OneCoin cryptocurrency.
The reward for those who provide data leading to their arrest is $100,000.
Ruja Ignatova, known as the “crypto-queen” or “cryptoqueen”, is known in the field of cryptocurrencies because she would have perpetrated one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States is increasing efforts to find her and placing her on its list of 10 most wanted criminals.
This person of Bulgarian nationality, the only woman in the FBI Most Wanted List, is accused of participating in the scam called OneCoin. Through this business would have defrauded investors for an amount of USD 4,000 million.
For this reason, the United States Justice has been looking for her since 2017. The last time she was seen was boarding a flight from Bulgaria to Greece. The current reward for those who provide information that leads to his whereabouts is USD 100,000.
For Jamie Bartlett, a British BBC journalist who ran a podcast about Ignatova’s story and researched the cause for years, this is “probably the biggest breakthrough in the case since Ruja disappeared in October 2017″.
The difficulty in finding this woman is her wide availability of resources, Bartlett has assured. The fugitive would have USD 500 million which, evidently, have been useful to him when it comes to evading the authorities by falsifying documents or even changing his physical appearance, according to what is believed.
As CriptoNoticias has told, OneCoin was presented as a cryptocurrency. Created in 2014, it offered a commission to buyers who, in turn, sold it to other people. According to the police authorities, this did not base its operation on a blockchain like the other cryptocurrencies, but rather it was a pyramid scheme, that is, a structured mechanism to benefit some people using the money of those who join later.