{"id":177671,"date":"2024-06-27T16:28:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/?p=177671"},"modified":"2024-06-27T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:33:41","slug":"fbi-offers-4m-reward-in-hunt-for-fugitive-cryptoqueen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/?p=177671","title":{"rendered":"FBI offers \u00a34m reward in hunt for fugitive ‘Cryptoqueen’ – One of Ten FBI Most Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruja Ignatova<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

FBI offers \u00a34m reward in hunt for fugitive ‘Cryptoqueen’<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"Ruja<\/p>\n

Ruja Ignatova flew to Greece in 2017 as the net closed in around her. Pic: FBI<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A $5m (\u00a34m) reward is being offered in the hunt for the fugitive “Cryptoqueen” Ruja Ignatova.<\/p>\n

Bulgarian-born Ignatova, who has German citizenship, has been on the FBI’s most-wanted list since 2022 for fraud and money laundering.<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old is accused of defrauding investors out of $4bn (\u00a33.3bn) by selling a fake cryptocurrency called OneCoin, founded in Sofia in 2014.<\/p>\n

The US agency, which has called OneCoin “one of the largest global fraud schemes in history”, previously offered a $100,000 (\u00a382,463) reward for her capture.<\/p>\n

However, that has now been raised to \u00a34m.<\/p>\n

“Ignatova is believed to travel with armed guards and\/or associates. Ignatova may have had plastic surgery or otherwise altered her appearance,” states her FBI wanted poster.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor said on Wednesday he would press charges against Ignatova, who disappeared in late 2017.<\/p>\n

“She will also be charged in absentia in our country, which will allow the start of a procedure for the confiscation of her illegally acquired property,” he said.<\/p>\n

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The FBI believes she could be using a German passport to travel to countries such as the UAE, Russia, Greece and Eastern Europe.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ignatova’s last known movements were taking a Ryanair flight from Sofia to Athens on 25 October 2017.<\/p>\n

She fled after bugging a flat belonging to her American boyfriend and learning he was cooperating with the FBI, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

When it added her to the most-wanted list, the FBI said it believed she escaped with a “tremendous amount of cash” – enough to “buy a lot of friends”.<\/p>\n

There has also been speculation she may have been murdered on the orders of the ‘Godfather’ of the Bulgarian mafia.<\/p>\n

OneCoin co-founder Karl Sebastian Greenwood was sentenced to 20 years in US prison last year and ordered to pay back $300m (\u00a3237m).<\/p>\n

The fake cryptocurrency raked in huge amounts using a pyramid scheme model that offered commissions for members to entice others to get involved.<\/p>\n

Foxnwolf comments……<\/p>\n

All you Proof of Life contractors out there, go4it…….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ruja Ignatova FBI offers \u00a34m reward in hunt for fugitive ‘Cryptoqueen’ Ruja Ignatova flew to Greece in 2017 as the net closed in around her. Pic: FBI A $5m (\u00a34m) reward is being offered in the hunt for the fugitive … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177675,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177671\/revisions\/177675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}