The self-proclaimed ‘Crypto Queen’, Dr. Ruja Ignatova who has been on the run since 2017, is claimed to be murdered on a yacht five years ago.
Ignatova, the founder of OneCoin, is one of the most wanted criminals in the world and is already placed on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list. She fled in 2017 after boarding a flight to Greece, from Bulgaria, where OneCoin was based, after defrauding investors of up to $5 billion.
The documents obtained by the Bureau for Investigative Reporting and Data, or BIRD, revealed claims of Crypto Queen’s murder.
According to the documents, Ignatova was killed in Greece in 2018 at the behest of infamous Bulgarian drug lord Christophoros Amanatidis-Taki, also known as “Taki.” Also, according to BIRD, Mikhail Naumov, the director of Bulgaria’s national homicide investigators, is mentioned in the documents.
The report includes information on intoxicated remarks made by a Taki associate. The comments claim that Taki ordered the suspected murder of Ignatova in November 2018 on a yacht in the Ionian Sea. Ignatova’s body was allegedly mutilated and dumped into the ocean.
According to BIRD, the materials found at the residence of Lyubomir Ivanov, the chief of the General Directorate of the National Police in Bulgaria, who was assassinated on March 25th of last year, include the files carrying the murder accusations.
Her death is currently merely speculated based on the BIRD report. The murder rumors surfaced just one month after it was rumored that Ruja Ignatova had come out of hiding after five years.
Ignatova was named as the “beneficial owner” of the penthouse apartment in the London suburb of Kensington, England, in a legal claim submitted by Ignatova’s attorneys to the UK financial authority.
