The self-proclaimed ‘Crypto Queen’, Dr. Ruja Ignatova who has been on the run since 2017, reportedly reappeared earlier this month to make a claim to one of her properties in London.
According to a New York Post report, Ignatova is one of the beneficial owners of a penthouse apartment in the London suburb of Kensington, England, which belonged to Guernsey-based firm Abbots House Penthouse Limited.
The penthouse was recently listed for sale for a price of $15.5 million, which was later lowered to about $13.6 million, and the listing has now been removed.
Ignatova is believed to have purchased the property in the name of a corporation, but a new rule for foreign companies requires that the beneficiary of that corporation also be named in full.
As a result, Ignatova’s attorneys filed a legal claim on the property with the UK’s financial authority, designating Ignatova as the property’s “beneficial owner.”
Ignatova, the founder of OneCoin, is now one of the most wanted criminals in the world.
Ignatova vanished in 2017 after allegedly defrauding investors of up to $5 billion. Ignatova fled in 2017 after boarding a flight to Athens, Greece, from Bulgaria, where OneCoin was based.
“We are the Bitcoin killer,” she assured OneCoin investors, yet these lofty claims turned out to be a falsehood as Ignatova lives comfortably off the stolen funds.
OneCoin co-founder Karl Sebastion Greenwood pleaded guilty last month to charges of wire fraud and money laundering. Greenwood earned approximately €20 million a month in his role as the top MLM distributor of OneCoin.
Last July, Ruja Ignatova was blacklisted as the FBI’s Most Wanted, the only woman in the FBI’s ‘10 most wanted list.’ FBI said it would be awarding $100,000 for any information helping the arrest of Ignatova, who was accused of eight charges including wire fraud and securities fraud.
In May 2022, Ruja was listed as one of the most wanted criminals in Europe too. Europol, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, has offered a reward of 5,000 Euros for information leading to the arrest of Ignatova.
