Documents seen by the
Bureau for Investigative Reporting and Data (BIRD) contain an agent report that
alleges that Ruja Ignatova ‘CryptoQueen,’ one of two Co-Founders of OneCoin,
the multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency pyramid scheme, was killed on a yacht in
Greece in November 2018. Ignatova’s body was allegedly dismembered and tossed
into the Ionian Sea.
According to the report, the said murder was allegedly
executed on behalf of Christoforos ‘Taki’ Amanatidis, an infamous drug
lord. Georgi Georgiev Vasilev, a Bulgarian national and a brother-in-law of
Amanatidis, allegedly revealed this during a state of intoxic
BIRD said the
documents containing the allegations are parts of materials retrieved at the
home of a former top Bulgarian cop, Lyubomir Ivanov, who was murdered in March
last year. The investigative journalism organizatiion also linked the agent
reports to disciplinary cases of Bulgaria’s Ministry of Interior.
Last year a former chief cop was murdered in Sofia. Documents found in his home states that the fugitive #OneCoin founder Ruja #Ignatova was murdered on a yacht in Greece in Nov 2018. Her body was dismembered and thrown in the Ionian sea. https://t.co/6fPgQePFlk @FBI @OCCRP
— birdbg (@birdbg2) February 17, 2023
“The Prosecutor’s
Office knows about these documents, but does not consider them documents within
the meaning of the Criminal Procedure Code and so far does not investigate
either the data on the murder of Ruzha Ignatova…,” BIRD explained in part in its investigative report.
Commenting on the
revelation, Crypto Xpose, a Twitter account focused on shedding light on OneCoin,
noted that while the alleged murder is “possible,’ “there’s no real proof of
that.”
I wouldn’t take this information as granted that Ruja was killed in November 2018. It’s of course possible, but there’s no real proof of that. The FBI doesn’t usually put dead people on the 10 most wanted list. Also, Bulgaria is Bulgaria…https://t.co/5rgqZweGY5
— Crypto Xpose (@CryptoXpose) February 18, 2023
The new details
emerge at the same time reports say Ignatova, who has been on the run since 2017, has resurfaced as the beneficial owner of a real estate
property purchased in Kensington in London. Ignatova is reportedly the owner of
a shell company which purchased the property and
listed her as beneficial owner, in accordance with UK rules. However, a BBC
report traced the development to prosecutors in the German city of Bielefeld.
The…
