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Believe it oregon not, the DealShaker marketplace is inactive working. The commerce limb of the OneCoin empire, DealShaker provided a wide and verifiable usage lawsuit for OneCoin arsenic a currency. The token was existent due to the fact that you could usage it to bargain things successful a circumstantial e-commerce store. Oh, those were the days. The top happening astir exploring OneCoin and Dr. Ruja’s communicative is that it reflects however naive the crypto satellite really was conscionable a fewer years ago. In galore ways, it inactive is.
In “The Missing Cryptoqueen’s” sixth episode, we question to the past. It’s titled “The Überflieger” referring to a “high-flying” person. That’s however teachers of the past described Dr. Ruja, who was decidedly the prima successful each of her classes and was respected and hated for it. What other tin Jamie and Georgia larn astir Ruja Ignatova by tracing her steps? Let’s find out.
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About “The Missing Cryptoqueen,” Episode Six – “The Überflieger”
Our blast from the past occurrence starts successful 2009, 5 years earlier OneCoin and DealShaker. Bitcoin was entering the country and truthful was Dr. Ruja, who bought a mill successful Germany. Jamie and Georgia sojourn the tract successful 2019 and interrogation the survivors of that story. They archer them that Ruja Ignatova got there, impressed everybody, and made a batch of promises that she didn’t keep. After that, she disappeared, efficaciously rug-pulling everybody. Interesting fact, some her begetter and her parent worked astatine the factory. Which suggests Ruja Ignatova is simply a household woman.
When Dr. Ruja disappeared, the mill offices were breached into and a batch of documents went missing, on with her. The mill workers that the podcast interviewed each look to deliberation that this was staged and that Dr. Ruja took and destroyed immoderate important documents. “It’s precisely the aforesaid story,” 1 of them says comparing OneCoin and DealShaker to the mill successful question. When things got tough, Ruja Ignatova sold the institution and disappeared. The mill remains closed to this day.
In the adjacent section’s 2nd quote, you’ll consciousness the magnitude of that archetypal lawsuit against Dr. Ruja. She paid the good and kept it pushing. And, according to the mill workers, she learned that the adjacent clip she was going to person to vanish for real.
Quotes From “The Missing Cryptoqueen,” EpisodeSix – “The Überflieger”
In what appears a diary entry, we larn astir the young Ruja Ignatova:
“Ruja was ever affable to everyone. She was ever good behaved and cheerful, and the teachers were profoundly fond of her. She doesn’t portion and she would ne'er degrade herself to eating pizza. Her favourite classes were “p,” she was faultless, and present and past she likes “ari.” Generally, she got connected precise good with her colleagues. Stop. Maybe we should instrumentality to the truth. Okay, fine. Maybe I did instrumentality pleasance successful tormenting immoderate students. I was ever looking for the accidental to dispersed caller amusing stories astir them.”
This punctuation summarizes the consequences of Ruja’s archetypal fraud:
“This time, the instrumentality caught up with Dr. Ruja. In 2016, she was convicted successful a German tribunal for respective crimes. Intentional breach of work successful the lawsuit of insolvency, fraud, withholding an embezzlement of employees’ wages, and usurpation of accounting duties, She received a 14-month suspended condemnation and an €18,000 fine. The section paper reported that Ruja reappeared to be the ruling and showed nary emotion erstwhile the judgement was passed down. She softly slipped retired and returned to Bulgaria, and carried connected with OneCoin arsenic if thing had happened.”
More About Dr. Ruja’s Past
Later successful the episode, Jamie and Georgia corroborate that Ruja truly got a PHD. “She’s smart,” Georgia says. Then, Multi-Level Marketing makes a 2nd appearance. We larn that successful 2014, Ruja Ignatova tried to sell… hold for it… bitcoin utilizing MLM techniques. The producers present Sebastian Greenwood, a Multi-Level Marketing adept that seems to person created the Dr. Ruja quality with Ignatova. She had the charisma, helium had the technique. They conscionable needed a merchandise they could control.
Last but not least, we conscionable Duncan. He erstwhile was an integral portion of the OneLife enactment and it’s the caput down DealShaker. He says everything successful determination is rubbish and challenges Jamie to find 5 things helium wants and tin wage successful OneCoin only. Jamie goes done DealShaker and realizes the already shady characters that merchantability products done the level mostly privation Euros. Is DealShaker truly a OneCoin market?
At the extremity of the episode, a backstage detective that the accumulation hired seemingly recovered a woman that could beryllium Ruja Ignatova successful Athens. Could it be?
Extra Material: OneCoin Responds To The FCA
Approximately six years ago, the Financial Conduct Authority of the United Kingdom issued a informing against OneCoin. The institution responded and NewsBTC reported the story:
“In the statement, OneCoin has called itself a planetary bundle and exertion institution with offices successful Bulgaria, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates. The institution has besides described OneCoin has a integer currency sharing fewer features with existing cryptocurrencies. These similarities are confined to the attraction of each transaction records connected a database.
The integer currency company, successful the past paragraph of the statement, expresses its afloat cooperation,
“OneCoin is committed to pursuing bully concern practices and the applicable rules and regulations successful the countries successful which it operates. It volition co-operate afloat with the authorities successful pursuit of this objective.”
Episode 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
English (US) 