Bulgarian-born German national Ruja Plamenova Ignatova was found guilty of fraud. The whereabouts of Crypto Queen will be discussed in this article.
Ruja Ignatova update: Where is the Crypto Queen now?
In 2022, Ruja Ignatova was among the FBI’s most sought-after fugitives. When the “Cryptoqueen” disappeared more than five years ago, more than $4 billion was taken with her. According to our report, Crypto Queen was killed about a year later.
Notably, OneCoin, the fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme she is credited with founding, has been called “one of the biggest scams in history” by The Times. The Missing Cryptoqueen, a book published in 2022, and a podcast series on BBC Radio 2019 both focus on her.
born into a Romani family in 1980 in Ruse, Bulgaria. When Ignatova was ten years old, her family moved to Germany, and she spent some of her early years in the Baden-Württemberg state town of Schramberg.
Details about the course, the college, and the date of matriculation are missing from claims that she may have attended the University of Oxford in England.
Her father Plamen Ignatov bought a company that was soon declared bankrupt under suspicious circumstances, and she was found guilty of fraud in Germany in 2012. She was given a suspended 14-month prison sentence.
She took part in the fraudulent multi-level marketing scheme BigCoin in 2013. She started OneCoin, a pyramid scheme, in 2014.
