2 years ago
A Briton Christopher Hamilton volition beryllium extradited to the U.S. to look wealth laundering and wired fraud charges aft being indicted successful the $ 4 cardinal OneCoin scam, according to Law360.
Hamilton and his co-accused Robert McDonald had filed to beryllium tried extracurricular of the US since the bulk of the crimes took spot successful Britain.
A U.K District Judge Nicholas Rimmer, however, ruled against their plea and ruled for extradition fixed that the victims were based successful the US.
While Hamilton volition beryllium tried successful the U.S., McDonald was exempted from the extradition connected claims of quality rights. He claimed that his woman was critically sick and his lack whitethorn exposure her to suicidal tendencies.
The duo is facing ineligible charges for taking portion successful the $4 cardinal OneCoin Ponzi scam pioneered by “CryptoQueen” Ruja Ignatova.
Ignatova’s $4 cardinal Ponzi scheme
Bulgarian nationalist Ruja Ignatova was the mastermind down OneCoin, a Ponzi strategy that outgo investors crossed 175 countries to suffer $4 billion. Since the illness of the task successful 2014, Ignatova has been connected the run.
So acold implicit 194 countries person placed her connected the “wanted list”. The FBI precocious added her to the database of its “top 10 astir wanted fugitives”. She was besides declared wanted successful Europe and a €5,000 reward was offered to anyone who would supply utile accusation that volition pb to her arrest.
OneCoin beneficiaries going down bars
While Ignatova is yet to beryllium arrested, much beneficiaries of the scam are facing trials astir the globe.
Ruja’s brother, Konstantin Ignatov was sentenced to a 90-year hail word pursuing his apprehension successful March 2019. He nevertheless agreed to assistance the FBI successful tracking down his sister.
OneCoin’s lawyer Mark Scott was indicted successful Nov. 2019 for laundering $400 cardinal and was taxable to a 20-year jailhouse term. Upon further probe successful March 2022, David Pike was sentenced to 2 years of probation for helping Scott launder the OneCoin proceeds.
The station UK justice rules to extradite Christopher Hamilton to US for proceedings connected OneCoin scam appeared archetypal connected CryptoSlate.
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