The public seek for Ruja Ignatova, higher generally known as the ‘Crypto Queen’, has taken a tragic flip after an investigation by Bulgarian information outlet Bird revealed paperwork reportedly discovered within the possession of a murdered Bulgarian police official that proves she was allegedly killed in 2018.
What Happened: Ignatova was the pinnacle of the trillion-dollar OneCoin rip-off, accused of fleecing buyers out of as a lot as $5 billion in 2017 earlier than her disappearance. She was included in the FBI’s ten most wished and Europe’s most wished lists.
For the uninitiated, the promoters behind the notorious OneCoin, which was launched in 2014, duped tons of of buyers into believing that it was a mineable cryptocurrency, falsely promising a most provide of 120 billion cash. Once thought-about the following Bitcoin BTC/USD, OneCoin raised alarm bells amongst buyers after they realized the scheme didn’t even have a blockchain.
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According to an investigation by Bird, Police paperwork reveal that Ignatova was killed on the orders of a drug lord aboard his yacht. An unnamed supply from the police report has indicated that the killer was an affiliate of Ignatova, elevating hypothesis that they had been additionally concerned within the OneCoin rip-off.
In a grisly flip of occasions, Ignatova’s physique was dismembered and discarded into the Ionian Sea, a physique of water between Italy and Greece within the south of the Adriatic Sea.
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