THE FBI has added a Bulgarian woman dubbed the ‘Crypto Queen’ to its infamous 10 most wanted list after she stole billions in the biggest scam EVER.
On the run since 2017, Dr Ruja Ignatova took off with over £10 billion after duping more than a million people into investing in her crypto currency ‘OneCoin’.
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The 42-year-old branded her crypto currency as the replacement for Bitcoin, but flashy sales pitches and promises of quick money turned out to be a massive swindle.
Officials said that it was not backed by any blockchain system – the digital ledger that governs the crypto world – meaning the coin dubbed ‘The Bitcoin Killer’ was actually worthless.
The virtual Ponzi scheme raked in an estimated $13 billion for Ignatova and her co-conspirators – before its creator mysteriously vanished.
Her co-founder Sebastian Greenwood was arrested in 2018, while her brother Konstantin Ignatov pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering in connection with the scheme in 2019.
Her whereabouts remain unknown, but her brother alleges that she told him she had sourced a “big passport” before…
