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What does a OneLife-produced lawsuit look like? Is the enactment that supports the OneCoin assemblage competent capable to nutrient a quality pageant? The reply to those questions mightiness astonishment you. For this 4th episode, Jamie Bartlett and Georgia Catt spell into the lion’s den. They spell to Bucharest, Romania, and assistance the Miss OneLife coronation. Apparently, the lawsuit had immoderate of “the world’s astir celebrated brands arsenic sponsors.” However, arsenic it happens with everything Dr. Ruja related, things are not what they seem.
This episode’s impermanent prima is Christi Calina, who’s a OneLife “independent selling associate” and 1 of the event’s producers. Since the man’s ghosting them, Jamie and Georgia ambush him astatine a OneLife lawsuit successful the aforesaid city. The league “looks similar the existent deal, conscionable similar OneCoin,” Jamie evaluates. There, they get entree to the Miss OneLife lawsuit and things instrumentality a crook for the mysterious.
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About “The Missing Cryptoqueen’s” Episode Four – “Miss OneLife”
In this episode, Jamie and Georgia spell done the charges against Konstantin Ignatov, Dr. Ruja’s brother. They incorporate immoderate of the FBI documents astir the lawsuit and see emails betwixt Dr. Ruja and “other apical leaders” of the OneLife organization. In those, the radical allegedly sermon however the scam works successful detail. If those are real, there’s nary uncertainty that OneCoin was a precise deliberate scam from the precise beginning. They adjacent sermon however to fake the mining of the cryptocurrency, and springiness reasons to usage a acquainted word similar “mining” to fool their clients.
In those emails, Dr. Ruja discusses a imaginable exit strategy and proposes they could “take the wealth and tally and blasted idiosyncratic other for this.”
Later on, the FBI claims Dr. Ruja is “directly associated with important players successful the Easter European organized crime.”
It’s important to cognize that OneCoin disputes each of these allegations. We included portion of their denial successful the quotes section. We besides included factual accusation astir Dr. Ruja’s disappearance and a caller origin that mightiness explicate wherefore she fled astatine the clip she did.
The Miss OneLife Beauty Pageant
Our heroes spell into the oculus of the storm. They tin hardly participate the premises due to the fact that everyone successful the OneLife enactment knows precisely who they are. They don’t blend in. Everyone is “smartly dressed.” Bottles of Moet and cigars abound. The accumulation is slick. A signifier comes down from the ceiling and Jamie loses his mind. In the end, they some admit that the OneLife enactment tin propulsion a hellhole of an event. It was boring, though. And it doesn’t look similar immoderate cryptocurrency-related lawsuit that the podcast big has ever attended.
“OneCoin is inactive going and there’s a batch of wealth here,” Jamie says earlier fleeing the event.
Back successful London, the producers fact-check everything that happened. The celebrated brands that were supposedly attached to the Miss OneLife lawsuit contradict sponsorship. They’ve ne'er heard of the event. Then, they interaction Forbes and the mag denies that Dr. Ruja was ever connected the screen similar the enactment made look successful their promotional material. Then, they cheque connected their acquisition claims. As it turns out, Dr. Ruja did spell to Oxford and got the grade she claimed to have.
To decorativeness the occurrence off, Jamie interviews Miss OneLife UK. She gives them peripheral information, similar the event’s ticketing wasn’t unfastened to the nationalist and 1 of the prizes was a acquisition paper for cosmetic surgery. Then, Jamie mentions Dr. Ruja. She says that she heard idiosyncratic important was astatine the event, but couldn’t retrieve if it was her.
Is it imaginable that Dr. Ruja was successful attendance astatine the Miss OneLife event? Apparently, “she’s unrecognizable now.”
This communicative gets much fascinating by the minute.
Quotes From “The Missing Cryptoqueen’s” Episode Four – “Miss OneLife”
OneCoin’s statement:
“OneCoin disputes each allegations. To our assertion that OneCoin is not a cryptocurrency and that its nominal terms is not determined by request and supply, but is manipulated and acceptable internally, they said: “OneCoin verifiably fulfills each criteria of the explanation of cryptocurrency, and besides those of a transparent pricing that is successful enactment with the communal market”. The BBC podcast series, they say, “is based connected testimonials of haters, erstwhile employees who were either fired oregon disgracefully dismissed for interior institution violations, intelligence spot theft, and different violations. Thus, the bid volition not contiguous immoderate truthful accusation and cannot beryllium considered objective, nor unbiased.”
Concrete accusation astir Dr. Ruja’s disappearance, and a caller origin that mightiness explicate wherefore she fled:
“The FBI files besides contained invaluable caller accusation astir Dr. Ruja’s disappearance. “Bulgarian question records amusement that connected oregon astir October 25th, 2017, Ruja flew connected Ryanair from Sofia, Bulgaria to Athens, Greece.” Dr. Ruja was past seen successful Sozopol, successful astir July 2017. That was connected her backstage yacht, the Davina, the 1 we saw. On October 7th, she past failed to crook up astatine a OneCoin lawsuit successful Lisbon. But present we cognize that her past known whereabouts was successful information Athens connected 25th October 2017. And there’s immoderate much clues here.
Last week, I said that the US authorities charged Dr. Ruja successful absentia successful March 2019. That’s not the full story. We’ve learned that Dr. Ruja was really indicted connected 12th October 2017, but this indictment was sealed until March 2019. It was conscionable 2 weeks aft that archetypal indictment that Dr. Ruja vanished. Is it imaginable she could person been tipped off?”
Extra Material And Episode Credits
As you astir apt cognize if you’ve gotten this acold successful the series, Dr. Ruja is connected the FBI’s most-wanted list. The substance nether her sanction says:
“Ruja Ignatova is wanted for her alleged information successful a large-scale fraud scheme. Beginning successful astir 2014, Ignatova and others are alleged to person defrauded billions of dollars from investors each implicit the world. Ignatova was the laminitis of OneCoin Ltd., a Bulgaria-based institution that marketed a purported cryptocurrency. In bid to execute the scheme, Ignatova allegedly made mendacious statements and representations to individuals successful bid to solicit investments successful OneCoin. She allegedly instructed victims to transmit concern funds to OneCoin accounts successful bid to acquisition OneCoin packages, causing victims to nonstop ligament transfers representing these investments. Throughout the scheme, OneCoin is believed to person defrauded victims retired of much than $4 billion.”
And finally, the episode’s credits:
Presenter: Jamie Bartlett
Producer: Georgia Catt
Story consultant: Chris Berube
Editor: Philip Sellars
Original euphony and dependable design: Phil Channell
Original euphony and vocals: Dessislava Stefanova and the London Bulgarian Choir
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